About

Katherine V. Liebesny, MD, is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. Her contact information includes a phone number at 540-853-0900 and an email address kvliebesny@carilionclinic.org. The page indicates her role within the faculty but does not provide specific details about her research focus, background, or key contributions.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Medicine
• Clinical psychology
• Psychology
• Demography
• Medical emergency
• Virology
• Psychiatry
• Developmental psychology
• Criminology
• Environmental health

Selected publications

• Co-occurring autism, ADHD, and gender dysphoria in children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders: an examination of pre- vs. post-COVID pandemic outbreak trends with real-time electronic health record data

  Frontiers in Psychiatry · 2024-08-20 · 4 citations

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  Background: Incidence rates of autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and gender dysphoria (GD) are rising not only in the general population, but particularly among children, adolescents, and young adults with eating disorders (EDs). While ED rates have risen during the COVID pandemic, trends in co-occurring autism, ADHD, and GD have yet to be investigated in detail or at scale by way of large electronic medical record data. Objectives: To investigate trends in rates of co-occurring autism, ADHD, and GD among children, adolescents, and young adults with EDs in years prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: We utilized a de-identified multinational electronic health records database (TriNetX) with 48,558 individuals aged 5-26 diagnosed with eating disorders (EDs) at least twice between 2017 and 2022. The primary predictor variable differentiated between the years of each person's index (first) ED diagnosis (2017-2019 vs. 2020-2022). The primary outcome variable was the rate of new co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and GD in the year following each patient's first ED diagnosis. We applied propensity score-matched multivariable logistic regressions to compare primary outcomes between 2017-2019 and 2020-2022. Results: Our analysis included 17,445 individuals diagnosed with EDs in 2017-2019 (8% autism, 13.5% ADHD, 1.9% GD) and 31,113 diagnosed with EDs in 2020-2022 (8% autism, 14.6% ADHD, 3.2% GD). After 1:1 propensity score matching, 17,202 individuals from the 2017-2019 cohort were matched to peers mirroring the 2020-2022 cohort. Those diagnosed in 2020-2022 showed a 19% (aOR[95%CI]=1.19[1.07-1.33]), 25% (aOR=1.25[1.04-1.49]), and 36% (aOR=1.36[1.07-1.74]) increase in odds for autism, ADHD, and GD diagnoses, respectively, within the 365 days after the index EDs diagnosis, compared to the 2017-2019 cohort. Discussion: Rates of autism, ADHD, and GD are significantly higher in individuals with ED in the post-pandemic 2020-2022 cohort in comparison to the pre-pandemic 2017-2019 cohort, even after controlling for baseline levels of co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses. Such findings reveal a critical gap in our current understanding of the totality of ways in which COVID-19 may have impacted the onset and clinical course of EDs, autism, ADHD, and GD among children, adolescents, and young adults.

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• Increasing prevalence of eating disorders in female adolescents compared with children and young adults: an analysis of real‐time administrative data

  General Psychiatry · 2024 · 13 citations

  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Clinical psychology

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• 66.3 If You Build It, Will They Come? Developing an Interdisciplinary Consultation Clinic for Gender-Diverse Youth in a Rural Catchment Area

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023-10-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
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• 1.52 Risk Profiles of Depression in the Year of COVID-19 Among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth of Color: Results From a Multicenter Study Among US College Students

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022-10-01

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• 1.53 Patterns of Sexual Assault Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Comparison in Sexual and Gender Minority College Students in the United States

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022 · 1 citations

  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Clinical psychology
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• 2.38 Psychological Inflexibility Moderates the Relationship Between the Risks of Eating Disorder and Gender Identity Among Youths in US Colleges: Real-World Results From a Multicenter Study

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2022-10-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Yezhe Lin

  10 shared

• Wisteria Deng

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  9 shared

• Anita S. Kablinger

  Carilion Clinic

  7 shared

• Binx Y. Lin

  University of California, San Francisco

  6 shared

• Kevin Y. Xu

  Washington University in St. Louis

  6 shared

• Dominic Moog

  Washington University in St. Louis

  6 shared

• Erin McDaid

  Carilion Clinic

  6 shared

• Hui Xie

  University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

  6 shared

Labs

• Psychiatry and Behavioral MedicinePI