PolicyLab

Stephanie Doupnik is a faculty scholar at PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and serves as the director of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Dr. Doupnik’s research focuses on organizing health systems to best meet the needs of children and adolescents, with a particular focus on mental health. Her portfolio includes projects focused on addressing acute suicide risk in children and teens; improving the integration of mental health services into general medical care; reimbursement for child and adolescent mental health care; and population health. She loves training health services researchers with diverse backgrounds and identities, and she especially enjoys supporting research trainees to launch their own independent careers.

Prior to working at Vanderbilt, Dr. Doupnik was a member of CHOP's Division of General Pediatrics from 2014 to 2024, first as a fellow and then as an assistant professor of pediatrics. She was also a faculty member at PolicyLab. Dr. Doupnik completed an undergraduate degree in comparative literature at the University of Virginia, medical school at Drexel University, pediatrics residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and a master’s degree in health policy research at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Cardinal Health Foundation the Arnold Gold Foundation, and the Academic Pediatric Association. Her research publications are visible here.