New child psychiatrist joins Delano staff in Kalamazoo

Robert Dempsey, DO, has joined DeLano Outpatient Clinic. He is its newest child and adolescent psychiatrist.

Dempsey comes to Borgess from Van Buren County Mental Health in Paw Paw, where he provided children and adolescents with psychiatric care.

He began his career as a pediatrician in hospitals and clinics in Michigan. He trained and was an attending physician at Cook County Hospital in Chicago before coming to Michigan.

Dempsey is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Osteopathic Association. He is a fellow with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

He is board certified with the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and has a Michigan Controlled Substance license. He worked in community mental health organizations for the past three years.

Dempsey earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in Kansas City, Mo., and completed a general psychiatry residency at the former Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, now named the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He also completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University.

For information on the DeLano Clinic or to schedule an appointment, please call (269) 321.7090.

Source: Borgess