Megan Zappitelli, MD

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.