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Dr. Cynthia Keysor, a psychologist, is the Clinic Director of the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Kennedy Krieger. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Keysor received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Georgetown University and her masters in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 1997, she completed a pre-doctoral internship in Clinical Child/Pediatric Psychology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. After receiving her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at UNC-Greensboro later that year, Dr. Keysor began a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This fellowship, sponsored in conjunction with the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic at Kennedy Krieger, involved conducting diagnostic interviews and providing therapy to clients in each of four subspecialty clinics: Affective and Anxiety Disorders, Infant and Preschool, Neuropsychiatry and ADHD.
In the Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, Dr. Keysor provides individual, group, family and play therapies, parent education, and consultation to other health care workers, the Department of Social Services, educators and attorneys.
Dr. Keysor also serves as a member of the Behavior Teratology Subspecialty Clinic, focusing on patients with prenatal substance exposure. Her current research interests center on the social and emotional development of children with prenatal alcohol exposure.
Dr. Keysor has been a member of the American Psychological Association since 1999. | 