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Jay Salpekar, M.D.

Director Associate Professor
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland

Dr. Jay Salpekar is the director of the Neuropsychiatry in Epilepsy Program at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. He received Bachelor’s and Medical degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and continued at Barnes Hospital for general psychiatry and then did a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the Yale University Child Study Center. He has been an academician overlapping psychiatry and neurology for over 25 years.

Dr. Salpekar has distinguished fellow status in the American Epilepsy Society, the American Neuropsychiatric Association and in the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The American Epilepsy Society recently honored him with the Rebecca Goldman Kaufman Award for Ethical Neuropsychiatry. He serves on the editorial boards for several journals including Epilepsy and Behavior, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Epilepsy Currents, and the British Journal of Psychiatry--open. He is a long time principal investigator for clinical research projects involving psychiatric illness associated with epilepsy, and is widely published on how neuropsychiatric paradigms apply to pediatrics. He recently co-edited a textbook, Pediatric Neuropsychiatry: A Case Based Approach, which emphasized those themes. Current projects highlight the overlap of anxiety with epilepsy and explore novel treatments that may address both conditions simultaneously.



Relevant Relationships Disclosed to Learners:
Contracted Research (Principal Investigators must provide information, even if received by the institution): Jazz Pharmaceuticals (funds to institution only)

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