Nasuh Mahmoud Malas, MD, MPH

Dr. Malas graduated medical school and received a Masters of Public Health from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine. He also concurrently received a training certificate in Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopment Disabilities at the Waisman Center. Dr. Malas then pursued residency and fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in the Triple Board Program. He received training and board certification in Pediatrics, Adult Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He also received training through the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and has conducted local and national trainings in the use of motivational interviewing as a communication framework.

Dr. Malas is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. He previously served as the Director of Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital from 2014-2023. In 2020, he became the Service Chief for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and in 2023 became the Associate Chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry. At Michigan Medicine, Dr. Malas has serves as the Principal Investigator for the Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative utilizing a Zero Suicide framework for suicide prevention at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. He has also been closely involved in growing service access, improving systems of care, and developing best practice clinical pathways for pediatric mental health conditions at the University of Michigan.

Outside of Michigan Medicine, Dr. Malas serves as faculty of the Michigan Child Collaborative Care (MC3) Program, an innovative telepsychiatry program for the state of Michigan. He has focused on education, advocacy and consultation expansion to emergency departments and schools through MC3. Furthermore, he serves on the Governor’s Commission for School Safety and Mental Health since 2022 and holds leadership positions with the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Association of Directors of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry. Dr. Malas has also served on the Psychiatry In-Training Examination (PRITE) Editorial Board and currently serves as one of two representatives from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital to the Behavioral Health Leadership Collaborative through the Children’s Hospital Association.

Dr. Malas is active in teaching, patient-family centered care, administration, quality improvement, clinical practice guideline, and resource development, as well as research. Dr. Malas's clinical and research interests include improving patient and family centered care, education, quality improvement, as well as the study of conditions such as pediatric delirium, behavioral dysregulation and aggression, somatic symptom and related disorders, neuropsychiatric disease, and psychiatric illness in physically ill youth. Dr. Malas has authored several publications across his areas of interest and is active in teaching, both in Pediatrics and Psychiatry.

Pediatric delirium and mental health conditions in children with medical illnesses
Behavioral dysregulation, aggression, and behavioral crises in children and teens
Somatic symptom disorders and related conditions (physical symptoms associated with emotional distress)
Neuropsychiatric conditions (conditions affecting brain function, mood, and behavior)
Youth suicide prevention and motivational interviewing

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Dr. Malas’s research focuses on pediatric delirium, behavioral dysregulation, somatic symptom disorders, and mental health conditions in medically ill youth. He leads the Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital using a Zero Suicide framework. His work aims to improve patient- and family-centered care, expand mental health access, and strengthen clinical care pathways.

Find Dr. Malas’s publications on PubMed