Meet Dr. Wink

Hello! I am a wife, mother, therapist, and psychiatrist.

My professional background

I am board-certified in adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry

After graduating with a BA in philosophy from St. John’s College, I completed medical training, psychiatry residency, child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, and developmental psychiatry fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine. Simultaneously, I deepened my psychotherapy skills by completing the Advanced Psychotherapy Training program and two years of analytic training at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. I spent most of the next decade at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital working in clinical research developing novel medications for use in Child Psychiatry.

I founded my private practice in 2019. Since then I have grown and maintained a boutique practice with a small caseload which ensures a excellent clinical care and access for all of my patients.

Outside of work

You can find me practicing Pilates, folding paper cranes, crocheting, snuggling with my boys, or playing with my dogs and cats at our home in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A cream-colored dog with wavy fur sitting outdoors on a blanket, with a blurred background of trees and a gravel surface.
A crocheted toy resembling a giraffe wearing a blue and white striped sweater, with a long yellow neck and head, featuring wide eyes.
Two young boys standing in front of a wooden door, one shirtless holding a toy tractor, and the other wearing a red T-shirt with text, dark jeans, and colorful sneakers.
A black kitten with yellow eyes lying on a light blue quilted blanket, with a brown leather couch and a patterned rug in the background.

“Excellent diagnostician, psychopharmacologist, and therapist.”

-Dr. Andrew Klafter MD

    • Authoring or co-authoring over 40 peer-reviewed articles, in such journals as the Journal of Child Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Biological Psychiatry, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Current Psychiatry, Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

    • Serving as Principal Investigator or Co-investigator/Clinician on 14 grant-funded projects funded by Autism Speaks, Cures Within Reach, Simons Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Defense from 2006-2019.

    • Creating and/or participating in 30+ conference presentations, for conferences sponsored by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and the International meeting for Autism Research.

    • Accumulating over 8 years of clinical research, clinical practice, and clinical supervision at the #3 Children’s Hospital in the Country.

    • Completion of the Advanced Psychotherapy Program and 2 years of the Psychoanalytic Trainaing Program at the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute.

  • Wink LK, Reisinger D, Horn P, Shaffer RC, O’Brien K, Schmitt L, Dominick KC, Pedapati EV, Erickson CA, Intranasal Ketamine in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Initial Results of a Randomized, Controlled, Crossover, Pilot Study", Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, JADD-D-19-01142.

    Wink LK, Adams R, Horn P, Tessier CR, Bantel AP, Hong M, Shaffer RC, Pedapati EV, Erickson CA.A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Cross-Over Pilot Study of Riluzole for Drug-Refractory Irritability in Autism Spectrum Disorder, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 11 April 2018. 

    Wink LK, Adams R, Pedapati EV, Dominick KC, Fox E, Buck C, Erickson CA. Metformin for Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 26 April 2017.

    Wink LK, Adams R, Wang Z, Klaunig JE, Plawecki MH, Posey DJ, McDougle CJ, Erickson CA. Arandomized placebo-controlled pilot study of N-acetylcysteine in youth with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 2016 21 April.

    Wink LK, Fitzpatrick S, Shaffer RC, Melnyk S, Schaefer T, Mathieu-Frasier L, Ray B, Lahiri D, Erickson CA. The Neurobehavioral and Molecular Phenotype of Angelman Syndrome, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 2015 Jul 29.

    Wink LK, Early MC, Schaefer T, Bermingham R, Pottenger A, Horn P, McDougle CJ, Erickson CA: Body Mass Index Change in Autism Spectrum Disorders: Comparison of Treatment with Risperidone and Aripiprazole. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2014 Feb 24.

    Wink LK, Erickson CA,Chambers JE, McDougle CJ: Co-morbid intellectual disability and borderline personality disorder: A case series. Psychiatry, 73(3): 279-289, 2010.

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