Heather Goff, M.D.

Assistant Professor, Child Psychiatry and Psychiatry
Director, Yale Child Study Center at Madison

Research Interests

Heather Goff, MD received her M.D. from New York Medical College, after which she completed training in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry at Yale. She joined the faculty in 2006, and she is currently an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition, she is the director of the Yale Child Study Center at Madison. This practice was recently opened in order to address the need for child mental health services on the shoreline, and offers psychiatric evaluations, medication management, psychotherapy, developmental evaluations, psychological assessments, academic skills assessments, and autism evaluations.

When not seeing patients, Dr. Goff spends much of her time as a clinician-educator, teaching medical students and residents in both the general adult psychiatry residency and the child psychiatry fellowship at Yale. In addition to teaching, she has a number of clinical interests, including child development and the psychological effects of trauma and mass disaster. In 2005, Dr. Goff volunteered in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and more recently, she had the opportunity to work in Sichuan Province after the earthquake in May 2008. In China, Dr. Goff worked with primary and secondary school teachers to implement a program to teach children and families about the psychological consequences of disasters, and methods of supporting children and families after traumatic events.

Contact

Campus Address
Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road
P.O. Box 207900
New Haven, CT 06520-7900

Office Address
Yale Child Study Center at Madison
23 Woodland Road, Suite B-2
Madison, CT 06443

E-mail
heather.goff@yale.edu

Office Phone
203-785-2540

Fax
203-245-5076