Deborah Bilder, MD

Deborah Bilder, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah. She also holds adjunct appointments in the departments of Pediatrics and Educational Psychology. She completed the triple board residency program (Pediatrics, General Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry) at the University of Utah and maintains board certification in all three specialties. Following residency, she participated in the Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (URLEND) and is now a consultant for this program.

Through her leadership, she facilitated the growth of Neurobehavior HOME program, a fiscally viable, Medicaid-funded sub-specialty medical home program for individuals throughout the lifespan with neurodevelopmental disabilities. She is a clinical and research expert in autism and is the Principal Investigator for the Utah Registry of Autism and Developmental Disabilities and Co-Principal Investigator for the Utah site of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. She consults for pharmaceutical companies on clinical trial protocol development for drugs and biologics that target rare genetic conditions.