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Jill L. Barron, MD is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist who completed her training at the Department of Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and at the Yale Child Study Center. She has extensive experience in the psychopharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of children adolescents, and adults. She has expertise in the treatment of attention deficit, anxiety, mood, psychotic and autism spectrum disorders. Dr. Barron is currently president of the Connecticut Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry which is the state branch of the American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (AACAP). She is the Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine where she also teaches an Introduction to Psychotherapy Seminar that she developed. She completed training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University where she examined health care delivery systems and policies, and researched the financing and delivery of mental health services nationally. Dr. Barron has expertise in the area of Early Childhood Development and has served as a consultant for UNICEF in the Post-Soviet Republic of Georgia. As a consultant to UNICEF, she helped rewrite the health guidelines for the evaluation of young children with and without developmental delays, and provided guidance on screening for pervasive developmental disorders. Dr Barron additionally consults to the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and treats firefighters with postraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) secondary to the events of September 11. She was recently retained by the Town of Newton to serve as a trauma mental health advisor. She has coauthored two book chapters on the neurobiology of PTSD. She is fluent in Spanish.
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