Triple Board Summit

Leslie Aslam, MD

Director, Behavioral Health Services
Sterling Healthcare

Dr. Leslie Aslam grew up in Huntington Beach, CA and obtained a BA in Human Biology: Brain and Behavior from Brown University. She then taught 8th grade science in Miami, FL through Teach For America before committing to a career in medicine. She attended medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and was honored to be the Class of 2014 inductee to the Gold Humanism Honor Society. She then completed a Triple Board residency at the University of Kentucky. After graduating in 2019, Dr. Aslam accepted the role of Director of Behavioral Health Services at Sterling Health Care, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) based in Mt. Sterling, KY. Since that time, the behavioral health service line has grown from 7 employees to 31, including 21 LCSWs/CSWs, 3 psychiatric APRNs, and 3 peer support specialists. Sterling Health Care currently serves roughly 29,000 unique patients, and Dr. Aslam is the sole psychiatrist; in addition to engaging in direct patient care and executive leadership tasks, Dr. Aslam meets weekly with primary care providers and behavioral health providers to provide consultation.

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Rebecca Ba'Gah, MD

Cherese Mari Laulhere
Mental Health Inpatient Center
Children’s Hospitals of Orange County
(CHOC)
Long Beach, California

Dr. Rebecca Ba'Gah is a pediatrician and psychiatrist currently working as a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Cherese Mari Laulhere Mental Health Inpatient Center at CHOC Children's and is volunteer faculty at the University of California Irvine's Department of Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Division. She completed her Triple Board training at the University of Kentucky where she took a special interest in substance use disorders having seen the effects across the lifespan. She currently is a member of AACP's Substance Use Committee where she is the liaison to the AAP's Committee on Substance Use and Prevention. Dr. Ba'Gah is heavily involved in medical student, resident, fellow and community education as she believes that education is the root to change and growth.

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Seth Himelhoch, MD, MPH

Professor and Chair, Psychiatry
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief
Eastern State Hospital
Lexington, Kentucky

Seth Himelhoch, MD, MPH received his medical degree at the University of Michigan School of Medicine (1994) and completed his residency training in general psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (1998). He completed a fellowship in health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2003), where he concurrently received a Master Degree in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health (2003). Dr. Himelhoch additionally completed a fellowship in Implementation and Dissemination Science through the Implementation Research Institute (2012). He is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar (Cohort 2: 2017-2020).

During his tenure with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he served in several key leadership positions including Director of the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Interim Director of the Division of Psychiatric Services, Director of the Clinical Core of the Veterans Affairs VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Associate Residency Training Director for Research, and Vice Chair of the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board.

Dr. Himelhoch’s program of research focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve access and outcome of care for people with co-occurring psychiatric and drug use disorders. This work has been funded by The National Institutes of Mental Health, Drug Abuse, and Heart, Lung and Blood grants, among others. Throughout his career, he has published extensively in high impact journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, AIDS, JAIDS, American Journal of Addictions, and Psychiatric Services. Of note, he is currently a Fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (2017-2020) where he and his team are working to develop interventions to assist rural communities suffering from the consequences of the opiate epidemic.

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Katherine Kerr, MD

Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
UT Southwestern
Dallas, Texas

Dr. Katherine Kerr double majored in Human Development and Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin and attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. She then completed a combined residency training program in pediatrics, adult psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Kentucky. She returned back to her native Texas and worked at the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center for 2.5 years before joining the faculty at UTSW in February of 2023. She is board certified in pediatrics as well as adult and child psychiatry. She enjoys working with children with ADHD as well as patients with complex medical conditions and is passionate about decreasing the divide between “physical” and “mental” healthcare.

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Fred Kinnicutt, MD

Fred Kinnicut, M.D. obtained his B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in education from Stanford University. After 5 years of teaching high school in California, he obtained his M.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following completion of Triple Board Residency at the University of Kentucky, he has experienced a number of jobs including consult/liaison child/adolescent psychiatrist at Central California Children’s Hospital, outpatient and inpatient child/adolescent/adult psychiatrist at Mercy Medical Center, Roseburg, Oregon, and PeaceHealth, Eugene, Oregon. He has worked in community mental health for over 13 years, currently at New Vista, Kentucky.

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Conor Malloy, MD

Dr. Conor Malloy is a 5th year Triple Board Resident at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He currently acts as the chief resident of the Triple Board Residency and the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. A native Floridian, Dr. Malloy attended Florida State University for both his undergraduate degree and medical school. He was first inspired to pursue combined pediatric and psychiatric training through his experience working in a collaborative care clinic in rural southwest Florida. His clinical interests include inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry, neurodevelopmental psychiatry, and psychiatric care for medically complex pediatric patients."

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Amy Meadows, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky

My name is Amy Lynn Meadows; I received my combined medical and Master of Health Science degrees from Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., where I also completed a Doris Duke Research Fellowship. I completed “Triple Board” residency in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Given this background, I specialize in evaluating and treating children and adolescents with complex concerns at the intersection of pediatric medicine and behavioral health. I currently run the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison program at Kentucky Children’s Hospital and am an Associate Program Director for the “Triple Board” program at the University of Kentucky.

I am board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Megan Zappitelli, MD

Psychiatrist
Child and Adolescent
Clinical Associate Professor
Prisma Health University
South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Department of Psychiatry
Greenville, South Carolina

Dr. Megan Zappitelli is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and a Clinical Associate Professor at Prisma Health University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in the Department of Psychiatry. She attended the Medical University of South Carolina for medical school and the University of Kentucky for residency and fellowship training. She is board certified in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is the program director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville which she founded in March 2019. She currently is the medical director of the consultation-liaison child and adolescent psychiatry service in the Prisma Health Children’s Hospital where she provides psychiatric consultation services for children and adolescents who are admitted for medical treatment. She is the former medical director for the Children’s Residential Program at Prisma Health Marshall I. Pickens Hospital where she provided long-term psychiatric care for children. In a previous position, she provided inpatient psychiatric care for children and adolescents with Dell Children’s Hospital at the University of Texas in Austin School of Medicine and provided outpatient treatment for patients at the Center for Child Protection in Austin, Texas. Dr. Zappitelli is trained in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and specializes in working with patients with severe mood and behavioral disorders, medically complex patients, and patients with symptoms related to traumatic experiences.

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