Dr. Paul H. Lipkin, M.D.

Dr. Lipkin is a physician specializing in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore and is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has focused his academic work on surveillance and screening for developmental and behavior problems in children, including autism, for nearly two decades through the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), leading the AAP developmental screening guideline revisions in 2006 and co-authoring on the 2020 AAP Clinical Report providing updated guidance on this practice. Dr. Lipkin was also a member of the 2022 collaborative AAP and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) developmental milestones revision. Dr. Lipkin directed the Interactive Autism Network, a family-centered online research registry for autism from 2013 to 2019. He is currently focused and conducting research on suicide and safety in children with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders as well as implementing developmental surveillance and screening in health care settings. Dr. Lipkin has been honored as the recipient of the AAP’s Arnold J. Capute Award in 2011 for his efforts on behalf of children with disabilities, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow in 2010-2011, working in the Office of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services.