Suzanne J. Sampang, MD

I am the interim division director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Cincinnati Children’s. I am also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.

I have always been interested in neuroscience. In medical school, during my psychiatry experience, I loved spending time talking to patients and hearing stories about their lives. This experience led me to choose psychiatry for residency training. Later, during my residency, I spent two months at Cincinnati Children’s for a required rotation, and I loved it. The notion of changing the trajectory of a child's life in a positive way by helping them through a mental health crisis inspired my career.

As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, my clinical practice has focused mostly on inpatient psychiatry, but I have also worked in outpatient and community mental health settings. I specialize in both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. In treating patients, I consider all possible pharmacologic, behavioral, psychotherapeutic, family, social and academic interventions.

I’m honored to have been recognized with the following awards and distinctions:

• 2025 - Inducted into the American College of Psychiatrists
• 2024 - Inducted into The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
• 2023 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
• 2022, 2017 - President’s Award from the Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association
• 2016 - Excellence in Mental Health Care Award: Exemplary Psychiatrist – Children from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Southwest Ohio

I believe service, teaching and leadership are important aspects of being a physician. I have held leadership positions in the Cincinnati Psychiatric Society, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Council of Cincinnati and Dayton, the Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association. I have previously served as a psychiatry board examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and am currently a member of the Psychiatry Clinical Examination Committee. I have also previously served on and chaired of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Psychiatry Review Committee.