Garry Sigman, MD

Adolescent Mental Health

Being a teenager is hard. You're under stress to be liked, do well in school, get along with your family and make big decisions. You can't avoid most of these pressures, and worrying about them is normal. But feeling very sad, hopeless or worthless could be warning signs of a mental health problem. Joining the program to help parents help their teens is Dr. Gary Sigman.

Garry Sigman, M.D. is an Associate Professor at the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. He is the Director of Adolescent Medicine at the Loyola University Medical Center and serves as Vice-Chairman for Administration , in the Department of Pediatrics. He trained in General Academic Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, and was a Scholar-in-Residence at the Lutheran General Hospital’s Center for Clinical Ethics. He has served a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Mental Health and as Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the AAP’s Committee on Adolescence. He is a founding member of the Academy for Eating Disorders. He has practiced adolescent medicine (care of patients age 12-25) for 23 years. He has served on many committees locally and nationally related to the prevention and treatment of adolescent health problems. He lectures widely in behavioral medicine, clinical ethics and adolescent medicine and has a series of publications that relate to those disciplines.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

7 / 15 / 2009