Paul Lipkin, M.D.

Paul Lipkin, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as well as KKI’s Director of Medical Outpatient Services. Dr. Lipkin’s clinical and research careers have focused on the early identification, evaluation, and treatment of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities, including autism, learning, and attention disorders, and most recently has focused his efforts on the problem of suicide in children with autism and other disabilities. He has focused his academic work on surveillance and screening for developmental and behavior problems, including autism, for nearly two decades through the American Academy of Pediatrics, and is co-author on the 2020 AAP Clinical Report providing guidance on this practice. He also directed the Interactive Autism Network, a family-centered online research registry for autism from 2013 to 2019. Dr. Lipkin is currently focused and conducting research on suicide and safety in children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders as well as implementing developmental surveillance and screening in health care settings. Dr. Lipkin has been honored as the recipient of the AAP’s Arnold J. Capute Award in 2011 for his efforts on behalf of children with disabilities, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in 2010-2011, working in the Office of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.