Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, MD
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Overview
Dr. Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay is the Director of Acute Services in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and an assistant attending psychiatrist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Gangopadhyay completed her general psychiatry residency at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where she served as chief resident for outpatient services and medical student education. She completed her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the NewYork-Presbyterian Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program of Columbia and Cornell Universities, where she served as chief resident at the Columbia site. After directing the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service from 2014 to 2022, she assumed the Program Medical Director role for the Access Behavioral Health Diagnostic Evaluation Stabilization Center in late 2021.
Dr. Gangopadhyay has interests in pediatric delirium, transplant psychiatry, and systems of care for patients with acute mental health needs. Board certified in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry, Dr. Gangopadhyay was awarded the Edward J. Sachar Award for Clinical Excellence in Child Psychiatry in 2012.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- transplant psychiatry
Academic Appointments
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC
Administrative Titles
- Program Medical Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service at NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Gender
- Female
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Insurance Accepted
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield ACN West
Fidelis Care
- Fidelis Care ACN West Child Family Health Plus
- Fidelis Care ACN West Dual Exchange
- Fidelis Care ACN West Essential Plan 1 and 2
- Fidelis Care ACN West Essential Plan 3 and 4
- Fidelis Care ACN West Exchange
- Fidelis Care ACN West Medicaid Managed Care and HARP
- Fidelis Care ACN West Medicare Managed Care
Healthfirst
- Healthfirst ACN West Child Family Health Plus
- Healthfirst ACN West Essential Plan 1 and 2
- Healthfirst ACN West Essential Plan 3 and 4
- Healthfirst ACN West Exchange
- Healthfirst ACN West Medicaid Managed Care and HARP
- Healthfirst ACN West Medicare Managed Care
VNS Health
- VNS Health ACN West Medicaid/Medicare Managed Care Advantage Plus
- VNS Health ACN West Select Health Medicaid Manage Care and HARP
WellCare
- WellCare ACN West American Progressive Life & Health
- WellCare ACN West Managed Long Term Care (MLTC)
- WellCare ACN West Medicaid Managed Care and Child Family Health Plus (NJ)
- WellCare ACN West Medicaid Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS)
- WellCare ACN West Medicare Managed Care
Credentials & Experience
Education & Training
- MD, 2005 West Virginia University School of Medicine
- Residency: Long Island Jewish Medical Center
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell and Columbia
Board Certifications
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Honors & Awards
- 2012: Edward J. Sachar Award for Clinical Excellence in Child Psychiatry
Research
Selected Publications
- Smith, H.A., Gangopadhyay, M., Goben, C.M., Jacobowski, N.L., Chestnut, M.H., Savage, S., Rutherford, M.T., Denton, D., Thompson, J.L., Chandrasekhar, R., Acton, M., Newman, J., Noori, H.P., Terrell, M.K., Williams, S.R., Griffith, K., Cooper, T.J., Ely, E.W., Fuchs, D.C., & Pandharipande, P.P. The PreSchool Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU: Valid and reliable delirium monitoring for critically ill infants and children. (2016). Critical Care Medicine, 44(3), 592-600. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001428
- Silver, G., Traube, C., Kearney, J., Kelly, D., Yoon, M.J., Nash Moyal, W., Gangopadhyay, M., Shao, H., & Ward, M.J. (2012). Detecting pediatric delirium: Development of a rapid observational assessment tool. Intensive Care Medicine, 38(6), 1025-1031. doi: 10.1007/s00134-012-2518-z