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Andrew S. Lustbader, MD, FAAP is a triple-board certified physician in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, General Psychiatry, and Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Lustbader trained at the Yale University School of Medicine for all three disciplines after graduating from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He has been a practicing physician in Connecticut since 1991. Dr. Lustbader is an Assistant Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine. He also serves on the clinical faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital. As one of the Directors of the Psychopharmacology Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center, he supervises a multidisciplinary team of child and adolescent psychiatrists, pediatricians and nurse practitioners in training, in the science and practice of comprehensive evaluation, and non-pharmacological and pharmacological forms of mental health treatment.
He has served as the Medical Director of the Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center in Norwalk, Connecticut. The Clinic assists children with mental health needs with prevention programs, emergency assessments, and pre/post hospital intensive programs, as well as many other forms of therapy – without regard for financial need.
Over the last decade, he has started a multidisciplinary private practice group in Westport, Connecticut. He supervises psychiatric nurse practitioners who are located within several local pediatric practices. He has given many seminars to mental health, school-based, and primary care providers, as well as community-based organizations regarding: psychopharmacology, psychiatric evaluation and treatment, treatment of physical and psychiatric chronic illnesses (including anxiety and trauma, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD), parenting and divorce issues, and suicide prevention. In addition, he provides executive coaching for the leaders of major corporations. He is one of the co-founders of a local, value-based, private high school in Fairfield County. He also serves on the board of the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
He has received a national award from the American Academy of Pediatrics in honor of his collaborative efforts to increase children’s access to quality mental health care. He is currently Chairman of the Joint Leadership Committee of the Connecticut American Academy of Pediatrics and the Connecticut American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; a committee comprised of leaders from Connecticut of both pediatric and child and adolescent psychiatry groups. The committee is dedicated to improving the quality of health care for children in Connecticut – with a special emphasis on alleviating the crises in children’s mental health care. At the request of the Office of the Child Advocate, in January 2010, the committee released a Blueprint for a mental health system in CT that would provide quality mental health care for all children in need.
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