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Kimberly Blair Ph D

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
  • Program Director, Theiss Center for Child & Adolescent Trauma, UPMC Western Behavioral Health

Kimberly Blair, PhD is licensed psychologist and an Associate Professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry.
As part of her role with the University of Pittsburgh, in 2005, Dr. Blair was appointed as the Director of the children’s early childhood behavioral health programs at the Matilda Theiss Early Childhood Center in Pittsburgh, the cornerstone of early childhood mental health services at UPMC Western Behavioral Health. Over the last 18 years in this role, Dr. Blair has transformed early childhood mental health services, making strides in program quality with the implementation of multiple evidence-based treatment approaches, expanding access to more children both within the county and in the wider region, and enhancing service delivery modalities including traditional outpatient, day treatment, mobile therapy, and school-based behavioral health.
In 2012, Dr. Blair established what is now the Pittsburgh-based Theiss Center for Child and Adolescent Trauma, part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and funded by grants from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The current Complex Child & Adolescent Trauma Project is working to expand trauma treatment access to children ages 2 through 17, within the Child & Adolescent Trauma Services Outpatient Clinic as well as across other UPMC Western Behavioral Network programs.
In 2022, Dr. Blair was also awarded a second grant from SAMHSA to establish the Pittsburgh Early Attachment and Relationships (PEAR) project, which supports the growth of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health services at UPMC and professional development opportunities across the commonwealth. Her efforts in providing quality programming have also sparked the interest of local partners, including the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation, which resulted in the creation of the COOL Zone Program in 2015, a therapeutic milieu designed to mitigate mental health stigma in schools and community settings within the UPMC Western Behavioral Health network.
Dr. Blair recently earned her Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement (ECMH-E®) through the Pennsylvania Association for Infant Mental Health (PA-AIMH).