Lisa L. Giles
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Lisa L. Giles, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Primary Children's Hospital

100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
801-313-7711
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Eccles Primary Children's Outpatient Services

81 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City , UT 84113
801-213-3599
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Lisa Giles, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and Division Chief of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Giles received her medical degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and completed a combined residency in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Giles is the senior medical director for Intermountain Children’s Health Behavioral Health Service Line.

As a board-certified pediatrician and child psychiatrist, Dr. Giles is interested in the behavioral and psychiatric comorbidities of youth with chronic physical illness. Dr. Giles also has an interest in the primary care treatment of psychiatric illness, improving integration between pediatrics and child psychiatry, and preventing youth suicide. She works with youth hospitalized at Primary Children’s Hospital, in the Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinic at Eccles and at Hillcrest Pediatrics.

Specialties

Board Certification

American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Lisa Giles, M.D. is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and Division Chief of Child Psychiatry and Behavioral Health in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Giles received her medical degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine and completed a combined residency in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Giles is the senior medical director for Intermountain Children’s Health Behavioral Health Service Line.

As a board-certified pediatrician and child psychiatrist, Dr. Giles is interested in the behavioral and psychiatric comorbidities of youth with chronic physical illness. Dr. Giles also has an interest in the primary care treatment of psychiatric illness, improving integration between pediatrics and child psychiatry, and preventing youth suicide. She works with youth hospitalized at Primary Children’s Hospital, in the Pediatric Behavioral Health Clinic at Eccles and at Hillcrest Pediatrics.

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Psychiatry -Professor (Clinical)
Pediatrics -Professor (Clinical)
Academic Divisions Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Psychiatry)
American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)
American Board of Pediatrics (Pediatrics)

Education history

Undergraduate Chemistry - University of Utah B.S.
Professional Medical Medicine - University of Utah M.D.
Residency Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Resident

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Campbell KA, Byrne KA, Thorn BL, Abdulahad LS, Davis RN, Giles LL, Keeshin B (2024). Screening for symptoms of childhood traumatic stress in the primary care pediatric clinic. BMC pediatrics, 24(1), 217.
  2. Brown T, Chen S, Ou Z, McDonald N, Bennett-Murphy L, Schneider L, Giles L, Molina K, Cox D, Hoskoppal A, Glotzbach K, Stehlik J, May (2022). Feasibility of Assessing Adolescent and Young Adult Heart Transplant Recipient Mental Health and Resilience Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 63(2), 153-162.
  3. Giles L, Shepard L, Asarnow J, Brooks (2021). Implementation of a Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention Intervention for Youth Presenting to the Emergency Department in Crisis. 6(3), 343-353.
  4. Brahmbhatt K, Mournet AM, Malas N, DeSouza C, Greenblatt J, Afzal KI, Giles LL, Charoensook J, Feuer V, Raza H, Mooneyham GC, Pergjika A, Schlesinger A, Chapman A, Strain A, Gandhi B, Johnson K, Mroczkowski MM, Ibeziako P, Graham R, Yoon Y, Plioplys S, Fuchs C, Shaw RJ, Pao (2021). Adaptations Made to Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service Delivery During the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A North American Multisite Survey. Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 62(5), 511-521.
  5. Brahmbhatt K, Kurtz BP, Afzal KI, Giles LL, Kowal ED, Johnson KP, Lanzillo E, Pao M, Plioplys S, Horowitz LM, PaCC Workgroup (2019). Suicide Risk Screening in Pediatric Hospitals: Clinical Pathways to Address a Global Health Crisis. Psychosomatics, 60(1), 1-9.
  6. Ibeziako P, Brahmbhatt K, Chapman A, De Souza C, Giles L, Gooden S, Latif F, Malas N, Namerow L, Russell R, Steinbuchel P, Pao M, Plioplys (2019). Developing a Clinical Pathway for Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders in Pediatric Hospital Settings. Hospital pediatrics, 9(3), 147-155.
  7. Silver GH, Kearney JA, Bora S, De Souza C, Giles L, Hrycko S, Jenkins W, Malas N, Namerow L, Ortiz-Aguayo R, Russell R, Pao M, Plioplys S, Brahmbhatt K, PATHWAYS FOR CLINICAL CARE WORKGROUP (2019). A Clinical Pathway to Standardize Care of Children With Delirium in Pediatric Inpatient Settings. Hospital pediatrics, 9(11), 909-916.
  8. Gangopadhyay M, Smith H, Pao M, Silver G, Deepmala D, De Souza C, Garcia G, Giles L, Denton D, Jacobowski N, Pandharipande P, Fuchs (2017). Development of the Vanderbilt Assessment for Delirium in Infants and Children to Standardize Pediatric Delirium Assessment By Psychiatrists. Psychosomatics, 58(4), 355-363.
  9. Giles LL, Martini D (2017). Essential Elements of a Collaborative Mental Health Training Program for Primary Care. Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America, 26(4), 839-850.
  10. Malas N, Ortiz-Aguayo R, Giles L, Ibeziako (2017). Pediatric Somatic Symptom Disorders. Current psychiatry reports, 19(2), 11.
  11. Strawn JR, Dobson ET, Giles L (2017). Primary Pediatric Care Psychopharmacology: Focus on Medications for ADHD, Depression, and Anxiety. Current problems in pediatric and adolescent health care, 47(1), 3-14.
  12. Giles LL, Martini D (2016). Challenges and Promises of Pediatric Psychopharmacology. Academic pediatrics, 16(6), 508-18.
  13. Hesse T, Holmes LG, Kennedy-Overfelt V, Kerr LM, Giles L (2015). Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Adolescents with Recurrent Headaches: A Pilot Feasibility Study. Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine, 2015, 508958.
  14. French KF, Candee MS, Stahl JL, Giles LL, Glasgow TS, Morita D (2013). Clinical reasoning: a 12-year-old boy with ascending weakness. Neurology, 80(11), e110-4.
  15. Giles LL, DelBello MP, Stanford KE, Strakowski S (2007). Child behavior checklist profiles of children and adolescents with and at high risk for developing bipolar disorder. Child psychiatry and human development, 38(1), 47-55.
  16. Singh MK, Giles LL, Nasrallah H (2006). Pain insensitivity in schizophrenia: trait or state marker?. Journal of psychiatric practice, 12(2), 90-102.
  17. Giles LL, Singh MK, Nasrallah H (2006). Too much or too little pain: the dichotomy of pain sensitivity in psychotic versus other psychiatric disorders. Current psychosis & therapeutics reports, 4(3), 134-138.
  18. Singh MK, Giles LL (2004). Pain insensitivity in schizophrenia: trait of state marker?. 8(3), 10-11.

Review

  1. Tarrell A, Giles L, Smith B, Traube C, Watt (2024). Delirium in the NICU. Journal of perinatology, 44(2), 157-163.