Dr. Khyati Brahmbhatt is a psychiatrist board-certified in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. She is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Co-Chief of the Integrated Division in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Her clinical and academic work spans pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, integrated and collaborative care, youth suicide screening and assessment, and the development of clinical pathways for mental health conditions encountered in pediatric settings.

Dr. Brahmbhatt earned her medical degree at Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India. She completed her psychiatry residency and served as chief resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, followed by a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 2024, she held faculty and clinical leadership roles at the University of California, Davis, and the University of California, San Francisco, where she directed the Pediatric Psychiatry Assessment and Consultation Team.

Dr. Brahmbhatt co-chairs the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Physically Ill Child Committee and has led its Pathways in Clinical Care initiative to standardize evidence-based mental health care in pediatric medical settings. She has served on AACAP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee and represented AACAP on the Pediatric Academic Societies Program Committee. She is a Distinguished Fellow of AACAP and an ad hoc reviewer for journals including the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Pediatrics, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.

Her scholarship and quality-improvement work focus on translating evidence into practical, multidisciplinary models of care. She has led and contributed to national and international clinical pathways for suicide risk screening, somatic symptom and related disorders, pediatric delirium, and pediatric catatonia, and has published on implementation of suicide prevention in pediatric health care, consultation-liaison service delivery, integrated care, and the psychiatric care of medically ill children and adolescents.

Her educational work includes pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, integrated care, clinical pathway implementation, mentorship, and faculty and trainee development. Across her career, she has taught and mentored medical students, residents, fellows, advanced practice clinicians, and junior faculty, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration, academic advancement, and building sustainable clinical programs.

As coordinator of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions’ International Pediatric Consultation-Liaison and Integrated and Collaborative Care Special Interest Group, Dr. Brahmbhatt promotes international collaboration, education, research, and exchange across health systems. Her work is grounded in improving equitable access to evidence-based mental health care for children and adolescents across medical settings while recognizing differences in resources, infrastructure, and local context.