Dr. Laura Paul Richardson, MD

Laura P. Richardson, MD, MPH, is a member of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She earned her MD and completed a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Michigan.

She earned her MPH in epidemiology and completed a fellowship in Adolescent Medicine at the University of Washington. She is the director of the adolescent medicine fellowship program and has expertise in the treatment of conversion disorders, somatiform disorders, obesity, eating disorders, depression and anxiety. Richardson is studying links between mental and physical health problems in adolescents and is developing innovative interventions to improve the treatment of mental health conditions for adolescents in primary care settings.