Professional statement
Dr. Laura Whiteley is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and faculty member at Brown University's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. She teaches psychiatry residents and trainees as the Associate Director of the General Psychiatry Training Program at Brown. She is also an National Institute of Health funded researcher.
Dr. Whiteley specializes in anxiety disorders, mood disorders, attentional issues, and college and work issues. She has particular expertise in adolescent and young adult mood disorders.
Dr. Whiteley completed her adult psychiatry residency at Butler Hospital and her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship and a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) T32 research fellowship at Bradley Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her medical degree from Temple University. She has been the recipient of teaching and mentorship awards by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.