Her research interests include advocacy training in residency, health care disparities, and maternal-child health. Her clinical interests include integration of behavioral health care into the primary care setting, psychosomatic medicine, mental health care for transgender youth, and substance use in the adolescent population. She spent three years on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan. She attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and completed Triple Board Training (Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) at the University of Kentucky. She has served on national committees with both the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dayna LePlatte, M.D.