Medical Director, Psychiatry/Behavioral Health, Children's Hospital New Orleans
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Mary Lynn Dell, MD, DMin, is Medical Director, Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, with academic appointments in psychiatry and pediatrics at Tulane and Louisiana State Universities. She is a graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine, where she completed general psychiatry residency. She completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Emory University, a research fellowship at NIMH, and has served on the faculties of Emory, University of Pennsylvania, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. She is also a bivocational Episcopal priest, having obtained theological education/training at Emory, Virginia Theological Seminary, and Columbia Theological Seminary.
Dr. Dell’s clinical and academic interests include chronic and life-limiting medical illnesses in children, adolescents, and transitional age individuals; psychiatric care of adults living with historically pediatric conditions; cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and other neurological conditions, and medical comorbidities in autism across the lifespan; bioethics; religion and spirituality in medicine and pediatrics; and medical education. She maintains ABPN certification in general, child and adolescent, consultation liaison, and forensic psychiatry.
American Psychiatric Publishing (Other Financial or Material Support, publishing contract)Oxford University Press (Other Financial or Material Support, royalties)