Chief, Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service
National Institute of Mental Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Haniya Raza is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and chief of service of the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service (PCLS) in the Office of the Clinical Director, National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. She is the Associate Training Director of NIMH Clinical Research Fellows Training Program. She is also Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and on faculty in the Psychiatry Consult-Liaison fellowship training program.
Dr. Raza completed general psychiatry residency training at Georgetown University, and her 4th year of psychiatry residency at NIMH. She next pursued C-L fellowship training in a joint program with Georgetown University and NIMH, followed by a second fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Raza previously was the Medical Director of the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children’s National Health System from 2010 to 2018 leading a multidisciplinary team in diagnosis and evaluation of ASD in children and adolescent with complex presentations. She also focused her clinical work on treatment of comorbid psychiatric disorders in children, adolescents and young adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities and comorbid medical conditions, including epilepsy, Prader-Willi Syndrome, velocardiofacial syndrome, neurofibromatosis and congenital cardiac diseases. She is board certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Her research interests are related to psychiatric disorders presenting in children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and complex medical illness. She has also led research in mental health aspects of COVID illness.
