Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Vice President for Psychiatric Services, Kennedy Krieger Institute

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences within the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine seeks candidates for the position of Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, as well as the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professorship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The Johns Hopkins School Medicine has consistently been among the top medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding. The Johns Hopkins Hospital ranks among the best in the country for its exceptional care for complex cases.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a distinguished teaching, research and clinical faculty, with over $50 million in extramural research funding and many outstanding clinicians who are national and international leaders in their respective subspecialty areas. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division includes 69 faculty members, a 15-bed inpatient unit and a day hospital unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and outpatient clinics located at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.

The Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division is the leader of all aspects of the Division's enterprise, serving as the spokesperson for the faculty, and represents the Division in interactions with the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospitals, and the School of Medicine, and with practitioners in the region, and nationally. Responsibilities include faculty recruitment and appointments; educational, clinical and research programs; fiscal planning and management; and short- and long-term strategic planning.

The candidate will also serve as Vice President for Psychiatric Services at Kennedy Krieger Institute, an academic affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. Kennedy Krieger's primary location is adjacent to the Hopkins campus in East Baltimore and has multiple sites both in and outside of Baltimore City. Kennedy Krieger's mission is focused primarily on children with disorders of the developing nervous system, including those with intellectual disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, the sequelae of trauma, rare neurogenetic diseases, and others. Clinical care and research are conducted in multiple venues including Developmental Behavioral Health, Behavioral Psychology, Center for Neuropsychology and Psychology Assessment, the Neurobehavioral Unit (both inpatient and outpatient), the Center for Autism Services, Science and Innovation, the inpatient Pediatric Comprehensive Neurorehabilitation Unit, the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, and the Kennedy Krieger School Programs (a K-12 system serving publicly funded students).

Qualifications

Candidates must have previous records consistent with appointment as a tenured Professor of Psychiatry. This includes an MD degree or equivalent, an outstanding record of accomplishments in research, teaching, and service, eligibility for licensure in Maryland; and certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The successful candidate should have the demonstrated capacity to foster an environment in which excellence in teaching, research and scholarship flourish, as well as experience in and a commitment to developing and leading clinical programs. Candidates should have a record of innovative and effective administrative and fiscal leadership, national stature in academic psychiatry, a record of excellent interpersonal skills, and demonstrated experience promoting positive interactions with students, staff and faculty. Johns Hopkins University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. All applicants who share this goal are encouraged to apply.

Application Instructions

Contact Info for Heads of Search Committee: Constantine (Kostas) Lyketsos, MD, MHS, Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor and Director, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences for Johns Hopkins Bayview, kostas@jhmi.edu; Karen Swartz, MD, Myra S. Meyer Professor in Mood Disorders and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins, kswartz@jhmi.edu; Coordinator: Jamie Elswick, jelswick@jhmi.edu

Salary Range

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

Total Rewards

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Posted: 2026-06-06