Dr. Elizabeth J. Roberts, MD is a board-certified Psychiatrist who is currently treating patients in Florida and California. She has appeared on The Oprah Show, CNN, The Today Show, ABC News in Chicago and CBS News Los Angeles, NBC News in San Francisco, on Real Life with Mary Amoroso in New Jersey, and KZSW TV in California.

Dr. Roberts is the author of the book Should You Medicate Your Child's Mind? A Child Psychiatrist Makes Sense of Whether or Not to Give Kids Meds and author of Chapter 5 in the book, Bipolar Children: Cutting-Edge Controversy, Insights, and Research.

For her expertise on the subject of medicating children with psych drugs, she has been a guest on numerous radio shows including: Washington Post Radio in Washington D.C., The Milt Rosenberg Show, Chicago, The Pete Wilson Show, San Francisco, Positive Parenting, San Francisco, Washington, DC and Good Parenting and many others.

Dr. Roberts has been quoted in several publications, including her Op-Ed in The Washington Post, "A Rush To Medicate Young Minds" published October 8, 2006; the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Forum: Bipolar Kids or Bad Parents? published November 18, 2007; and in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times.

CURRENT PSYCHIATRIC PRACTICE

Serving Florida and California
Happier Living
888-684-2779

EDUCATION

Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Northwestern University
School of Medicine
Children's Memorial Hospital
2300 Childrens' Plaza
Chicago, IL 60614

Residency in General Adult Psychiatry
University of Hawaii
Queens Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
1356 Lusitana Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

Doctorate Degree in Medicine
Rush Medical School
600 S. Paulina Street
Chicago, IL 60612

Bachelor Degree in Education
University of Michigan
School of Education
610 East University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

PAST PSYCHIATRIC EXPERIENCE

Psychiatrist
LifeStance
9332 State Road 54, Suite 307
Trinity, FL 34655

Medical Director
PACE, Positive Attitude Changes Everything
20051 SW Birch St
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Medical Director
Rising Roads Recovery
10905 El Domino Ave
Fountain Valley, CA 92708

Medical Director
Balboa Horizons Recovery Services
129 Cabrillo Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627

Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist for Foster Care & Group Home Agency
Olive Crest Family Services
3050 Chicago Avenue, Suite 180
Riverside, CA 92507

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE OF Psychiatry

Summer Day Camp Founder/Director
St James Lutheran School, Chicago, Illinois

Science Teacher
Irving School, Public School District 89, Chicago suburb, Maywood, Illinois

Substitute Teacher
Latin School, Chicago, Illinois
St. Luke's School, Chicago, Illinois
St. James School, Chicago, Illinois
Ann Arbor Public Schools, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Emerson School for the gifted, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Biography

Elizabeth Roberts, MD is a board-certified Psychiatrist currently treating patients in Florida and California. She has provided expert advice on cutting-edge topics in psychiatry through TV, radio and print media. Dr. Roberts is dedicated to educating the public regarding psychiatric conditions and the appropriate use of psychiatric medications. She is a tireless advocate for her patients who rarely have a voice in the public forum.

Dr. Roberts derives her expertise not only from academic study but from a wealth of personal and professional experiences that make her particularly well positioned to understand and educate on the topic of mental health. Her past experience in psychiatry has spanned service in the most impoverished areas to the most elite clinics, including her position as Medical Director of Hazelden, in Chicago to providing psychiatric services through the county mental health clinics to the homeless in Riverside County, California.

Dr. Elizabeth Roberts has been guiding, caring and advocating for children and adults for over thirty years, most of those years as a physician. Her work in human services started with running the soup kitchen and housing the homeless. Not only has she worked as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, but her career as a child advocate started at 17 years old, as a volunteer counselor of runaways. Her service to children went on to include coaching sports in poor neighborhoods, providing direct care for profoundly physically and mentally handicapped teenagers, and culminated with a career in teaching. She was a classroom teacher in schools that ran the gamut from the most prestigious private schools to the most disadvantaged public schools in the Chicago area.

She has worked to educate parents and professionals in various settings. She has lectured at Berkeley University on the use of psychiatric medications in children and conducted public seminars on mental illness and parenting techniques through hospitals, high schools, and ChADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) meetings.

Dr. Roberts attended Rush Medical College and completed her medical education with a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the Medical School at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Dr. Elizabeth Roberts has been guiding, caring and advocating for children and adults for over thirty years, most of those years as a physician. Her work in human services started with running the soup kitchen and housing the homeless. Not only has she worked as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, but her career as a child advocate started at 17 years old, as a volunteer counselor of runaways. Her service to children went on to include coaching sports in poor neighborhoods, providing direct care for profoundly physically and mentally handicapped teenagers, and culminated with a career in teaching. She was a classroom teacher in schools that ran the gamut from the most prestigious private schools to the most disadvantaged public schools in the Chicago area.

She has worked to educate parents and professionals in various settings. She has lectured at Berkeley University on the use of psychiatric medications in children and conducted public seminars on mental illness and parenting techniques through hospitals, high schools, and ChADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder) meetings.

Dr. Roberts attended Rush Medical College and completed her medical education with a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from the Medical School at Northwestern University in Chicago.