Sean David Pustilnik, MD

Associate Professor — Pending

Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University School of Medicine

General Information

Undergraduate Degree:  Johns Hopkins University

Graduate Degree: MS – Georgetown University MD – Virginia Commonwealth University

Psychiatry Residency: Virginia Commonwealth University Child & Adolescent

Psychiatry Fellowship: Johns Hopkins University

Clinical Work: Dr. Pustilnik is the Medical Director for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Division and does clinical work in consult-liaison child psychiatry at Medstar Georgetown Hospital pediatrics, as well as outpatient consultation/Integrated Care at the MGUH Pediatrics at Tenleytown in addition to outpatient care and supervision in CAP fellows’ clinic.

Research Work: Dr. Pustilnik is the Project Director for the DOD Collaboration Study which utilizes technology and training to improve the mental health treatment of children in military families utilizing Project ECHO and Child Psychiatry Access Programs and Digital Tools to improve mental health knowledge of primary care providers treating military children.

Adapting Well-Being into Outpatient Child Psychiatry

BIO

Dr. Pustilnik is the director of the Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry service and provides consultative service to medically ill pediatric inpatients, outpatient consultation through the Integrated Care Clinic at Georgetown Pediatrics of Tenleytown, and telephonic consultation through the DC MAP program, as well as psychiatric care of children with mood and anxiety disorders, disruptive behavior disorders and ADHD. His clinical and teaching interests include pediatric psychosomatic medicine and the integration of mental health into pediatric primary care. Dr. Pustilnik completed his B.A. in Behavioral Biology at Johns Hopkins University, M.S. in Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University, and graduated from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. He completed his General Psychiatry Residency at the VCU School of Medicine hospital, and fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution.