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About Me
Dr. Kim Klipstein is the Medical Director of the Psychiatry Faculty Practice and the System Director of Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS). She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). In these roles, she oversees operations and strategy for a wide variety of clinical psychiatric practices including integrated behavioral health programs across the system in the areas of OBGYN, transplant, cancer, and hiv. She additionally helped launch the Department’s Treatment Resistant Depression Program, and the Student Trainee Mental Health Program. She joined Mount Sinai Hospital in 2003 and has held numerous leadership positions in the Department over the years. Dr. Klipstein is board certified in both General Adult Psychiatry and in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. Clinically she works out of the Mount Sinai Hospital campus and is an expert in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in medically ill patients. Areas of interest and expertise include psychiatric symptoms in chronic illness, neurologic illness, pregnancy and postpartum, transplant, cancer, psychopharmacology, psychological reaction to illness, guardianship and medical decision making capacity. She received her MD from Cornell University Medical College and completed her residency training at New York Hospital and at the University of California, San Francisco.
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- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
About Me
Dr. Kim Klipstein is the Medical Director of the Psychiatry Faculty Practice and the System Director of Behavioral Medicine and Consultation Psychiatry in the Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS). She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS). In these roles, she oversees operations and strategy for a wide variety of clinical psychiatric practices including integrated behavioral health programs across the system in the areas of OBGYN, transplant, cancer, and hiv. She additionally helped launch the Department’s Treatment Resistant Depression Program, and the Student Trainee Mental Health Program. She joined Mount Sinai Hospital in 2003 and has held numerous leadership positions in the Department over the years. Dr. Klipstein is board certified in both General Adult Psychiatry and in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry. Clinically she works out of the Mount Sinai Hospital campus and is an expert in the treatment of psychiatric disorders in medically ill patients. Areas of interest and expertise include psychiatric symptoms in chronic illness, neurologic illness, pregnancy and postpartum, transplant, cancer, psychopharmacology, psychological reaction to illness, guardianship and medical decision making capacity. She received her MD from Cornell University Medical College and completed her residency training at New York Hospital and at the University of California, San Francisco.
Financial & Billing Information
Please direct any detailed billing or financial inquires to the Mount Sinai Psychiatry billing customer service number at 212-659-8752.
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Position
Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
- Mount Sinai Morningside
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
- Mount Sinai West
Clinical Focus
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cirrhosis
- Delirium
- Depression
- Dysthymia
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder
- Hypochondria
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Education
MD, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Residency, Psychiatry
New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell
Residency, Psychiatry
Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
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Publications
Selected Publications
- A “Mental Health PPE” model of proactive mental health support for frontline health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Madeline Gray, Kristina Monti, Craig Katz, Kim Klipstein, Sabina Lim. Psychiatry Research
- Suicidal Ideation during the Postpartum Period. Susan Bodnar-Deren, Kimberly Klipstein, Madeleine Fersh, Eyal Shemesh, Elizabeth A. Howell. Journal of Women's Health
- Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Principles of Management. Sabrina J. Khan, Madeleine E. Fersh, Carrie Ernst, Kim Klipstein, Elizabeth Streicker Albertini, Shari I. Lusskin. Current Psychiatry Reports
Industry Relationships
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Klipstein during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- galileo
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.
Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology companies, and other outside entities to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their outside financial relationships.
Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Klipstein during 2024 and/or 2025. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting or Other Professional Services Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership
- galileo
Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.