Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics
UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital
Maggie Whelan is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Prior to medical school, she earned her masters of public health at Columbia University and worked at the Harlem Hospital Tuberculosis Clinic in New York City. She then attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Scientist Training Program. She earned a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health along with an MD. Her dissertation research focused on maternal-child health in rural South India. In 2019, she completed the “Triple Board” residency program at Tulane University in New Orleans consisting of residency programs in pediatrics and general psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. Clinically, she sees general outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry patients. She also provides consultation to pediatricians in Western PA through the Children’s TiPS program and she sees patients as both a pediatrician and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Whole Child Wellness Clinic, which follows the medical home model to provide both pediatric and behavioral health care to children with complex needs. Her interests include infant mental health, early childhood behavioral health, integrated pediatrics and mental health care, the impact of medical illness and prematurity on attachment and development, and dyadic modalities of treating caregivers and their children. She also serves as the faculty advisor to the medical school Human Rights Clinic, conducting asylum evaluations in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Law School.