Meet Our Faculty
Adrienne Adams, MD, MS
Adrienne Adams, MD, is the Program Director for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program at Rush. Adams is certified in both general adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. Her leadership experience includes: American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT) Executive Council 2018-Present, Illinois Council of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (ICCAP) President 2016-2018, ICCAP Treasurer 2007-2010, AACAP Assembly Alt/Delegate 2008-Present, Illinois Psychiatric Society (IPS), Board 2017-Present, and AACAP Local Arrangements committee Monitors Chair 2019. As a child psychiatrist and a mom, Adams is passionate about caring for kids. Thus, her top priorities include: advocating for training programs to provide robust numbers of new child psychiatrists who are not only clinically strong but also culturally competent.
Rosario M. Cosme-Cruz, MD
Rosario Cosme-Cruz, MD, is the Medical Director, Outpatient Child and Adolescent Pschiatry and Director, Outpatient Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD)clinic and Director for the Anxiety and Affective Disorders clinic and Pediatric Consultation Liaison Program.
Rekha Bandla Kasi, DO
Rekha Kasi, DO, is the Director for the Toddler Infant Pre-School Clinic (TIPS Clinic).
Jon Goldner, PhD
Jon Goldner, PhD, is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry Behavioral Health at Rush University Medical Center. At Rush, Goldner works in the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic seeing patients and teaching. In this clinic, he directs the Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Externship and supervises Postdoctoral Fellows in Clinical Psychology. He also provides supervision to Child Psychiatry Fellows in their therapy experience, generally, and on their rotation doing trauma focused work in the community at the YMCA. In addition, he serves as Associate Clinical Director for Children and Families at Road Home: The National Center for Excellence for Veterans and Their Families. Before coming to Rush, Goldner worked in a variety of outpatient settings focused on helping to reduce emotional distress and behavioral difficulties in children and adolescents, many of who had experienced trauma and loss. He received his doctorate degree from Loyola University Chicago, with a specialization in children and families, and his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University.
Elizabeth Harari, MD Elizabeth Harari, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
Lynelle Thomas, MD
Lynelle Thomas, MD, is Director, Community Psychiatry/Urban School Based Care/Mental health facilities.
Lisa Yeh, MD
Lisa Yeh, MD, is the Medical Director for the AARTS Center at Rush. She is board certified in both general adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. Yeh has been working with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) throughout her career. She is dedicated to working with the ASD population, their families and finding ways to improve treatment options and outreach. Yeh comes to us from the Pediatric Developmental Center at Advocate IL Masonic Hospital where her focus has predominately been the clinical treatment of children with developmental disabilities and ASD. In addition to her clinical work, she served as interim, site medical director. Yeh was also a founder and president of a medical management organization that helped clinicians start and maintain a private practice. She enjoys teaching and supervising developmental behavioral pediatric and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows as well as general adult psychiatry residents and medical students from a number of institutions. Yeh was the recipient of the Teacher of the Year award from Children’s Memorial Hospital Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Program. She endeavors to advocate for this population through direct patient care, teaching and outreach. She completed her training for general adult psychiatry as well as child and adolescent psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
Louis J. Kraus, MD
Louis Kraus, MD, is the professor and chief of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Rush University Medical Center. He is the founding director of the Autism Assessment, Research, Treatment and Services Center (AARTS Center). He received his MD in 1987 from Chicago Medical School and completed his residency at Northwestern University and Fellowship training in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago where he served as the director of child and adolescent forensic psychiatry, the assistant director of inpatient psychiatry and was an assistant professor. From there, Kraus had an appointment of assistant professor at Northwestern University and was Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Northshore University Health Services (currently named). He arrived at Rush University Medical Center in 2002 as an associate professor and as the Woman’s Board Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.