Kristopher Kaliebe, MD

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD is a graduate of Columbia University and St George’s University School of Medicine.  

Kristopher Kaliebe, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of South Florida(USF).  He is Board Certified in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry.  He is a Distinguished Fellow and serves as co-chair of the Media Committee at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(AACAP).  Dr. Kaliebe is the (AACAP) Liaison to the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.  His primary clinical work has been in Federally Qualified Health Centers and Juvenile Corrections.  Since 2016, Dr. Kaliebe has helped start and maintain yoga programs within the correctional centers where he works.  Dr. Kaliebe has extensive training in psychotherapy, including trauma focused therapies.  He has been named a Best Doctor annually since 2008.

At USF, he instructs medical students, psychiatry residents and child and adolescent psychiatry fellows and forensic psychiatry fellows. He has created a medical student colloquium (elective) called Mind Body Medicine.  Dr Kaliebe has helped USF Psychiatry start a special training track in Integrative Psychiatry in Association with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. 

Dr Kaliebe’s publications and presentations include on the effect of digital technologies on mental health, Mind Body Medicine, working in Primary Care settings and preventing over diagnosis and over-treatment.  Dr Kaliebe tries to stay consistent with his yoga practice.  He resides in Tampa.