Kathleen Atkinson Crapanzano MD, MACM

Kathleen Crapanzano, MD, MACM is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry with the LSU School of Medicine and also serves as the LSU-OLOL Psychiatry Residency Program Director. She received her B.S from LSU in Biochemistry and her M.D. from LSUHSC in New Orleans. She has a Masters degree in Academic Medicine from the University of Southern California. Her residency training was done at the Medical College of Georgia where she was chief resident, and she completed a Psychopharmacology fellowship during her training.

After remaining on the MCG faculty for three years, she returned to Baton Rouge and worked on the faculty of the LSU-BR Internal Medicine program at Earl K. Long. She served as the Medical Director for the Louisiana Office of Mental Health in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, helping to rebuild and expand the mental health system across the state at that time. She is board certified and supervises residents in the outpatient clinic while also being a regular didactics presenter.