Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Dr. Julia Katz completed psychiatry residency at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She also co-led both the Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry interest groups and participated in research at the UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, examining the developmental trajectory of reward processing deficits in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She maintained an interest in ASD as a resident, collaborating with mentors at the Seaver Autism Center at Mount Sinai. Dr. Katz served as Chief Resident for the psychiatry residency for the 2020-21 academic year. Prior to college, Dr. Katz earned the rank of Sergeant in the Israeli Defense Force and served as a medic providing primary and preventative health care to thousands of soldiers.

Upon completion of her R25 research fellowship, Dr. Katz joined the faculty at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she serves as an attending at the neurodevelopmental outpatient clinic working with children with autism and developmental disabilities.