L I S A R O T H , M D

I am a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. I attended college at Harvard University (AB 2008), received a masters in English at Oxford University (MSt 2009), and completed medical school at Columbia University (MD 2014). I did an internship in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (2015), residency in psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2018), and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center (2020). I am also a child and adolescent psychoanalytic candidate New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. I am a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, where I teach psychotherapy to child and adolescent psychiatry fellows.

  • H O N O R S A N D A W A R D S

    Castle Connolly Top Doctor in the field of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and an Exceptional Woman in Medicine, 2024

    Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Excellence in Teaching Award, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, 20222

    Peter Blos Fellowship in Adolescent Psychoanalysis, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 2018-2021

    Certificate for Excellence in Psychotherapy, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2018

    Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship, 2012-2013

    Gold Humanism Honor Society, 2014

    Narrative Medicine National Institutes of Heath Fellowship, 2010

    P U B L I C A T I O N S

    Roth LA. “Coronavirus has infected the internet!” The American Psychoanalyst 55 (2021): 8.

    Slomiak S, Matalon D, Roth LA. “Very early-onset schizophrenia in a six-year-old boy.” American Journal of Psychiatry Residents Journal 12 (2017): 9-11.

    Riley CS, Roth LA, Sampson JB, Radhakrishnan J, Herlitz LC, Blitz AM, Moazami G. “A 31-year-old man with a ring-enhancing brain lesion.” Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology 37 (2017):172-175.

    Roth LA, Marra JD, LaMarca NH, Sproule DM. “Measuring disease progression in Giant Axonal Neuropathy: Implications for clinical trial design.” Journal of Child Neurology 30 (2015): 741-748.

    Roth LA, Johnson-Kerner BL, Marra JD, LaMarca NH, Sproule DM. “The absence of curly hair is associated with a milder phenotype in Giant Axonal Neuropathy.”  Neuromuscular Disorders 24 (2015): 48-55.

    Johnson-Kerner BL, Roth LA, Greene JP, Wichterle H, Sproule DM. “Giant Axonal Neuropathy: An updated perspective on its pathology and pathogenesis.” Muscle and Nerve 50 (2014): 467-476.

    Louis ED, Horn S, and Roth LA.  “The Neurological Content of S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction.”  Neurology 66 (2006): 403-407.

    B O A R D C E R T I F I C A T I O N

    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, general psychiatry 2019

    American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, child and adolescent psychiatry 2020