Lara Chepenik

Lara Chepenik serves as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine with a secondary appointment in Emergency Medicine. She works as a psychiatrist in the Crisis Intervention Unit, a specialized unit within the Emergency Department focused on patients with psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Chepenik's primary research interests span Biological Psychiatry and Mood Disorders, with specific focus areas including Bipolar Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder. Her work employs cognitive neuroscience approaches and neuroimaging techniques to map areas of affective and cognitive dysregulation associated with these disorders. More recently, she has developed active research interests in administrative psychiatry, focusing on the design, administration, and analysis of performance metrics.

Her publication record demonstrates expertise in the intersection of neuroscience and mood disorders, with particular attention to hippocampal structure and function in bipolar disorder. Her research often involves collaborations with prominent Yale researchers in neuroscience and psychiatry.

Dr. Chepenik maintains an active clinical practice while contributing to academic psychiatry through her research and teaching responsibilities at Yale School of Medicine.