Saskia Hostetler-Lippy, MD

Dr. Saskia Hostetler-Lippy is the third-generation of physicians in her family to train at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. She trained as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and has been an activist at the forefront of mental health, human rights and democracy activism. She has also been a volunteer in disaster psychology with the Crisis Emotional Care Team. Dr. Hostetler-Lippy completed her degree as a Psychoanalyst at Oregon Psychoanalytical Institute & Center in Portland, Oregon. She has been in clinical practice in Portland, Oregon, for over 18 years. Dr. Hostetler-Lippy works for Cascadia Health as the Medical Director of Acute Crisis Services in Portland, Oregon. She is also an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon. Dr. Hostetler-Lippy is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Hostetler-Lippy has worked in various mental health disaster response settings since 2020. She has worked with Physicians for Human Rights and the Crisis Emotional Care Team. Dr. Hostetler-Lippy holds a Climate Change and Public Health certificate from the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Connecticut. She is a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) graduate. She is herself a trauma survivor and brings personal experiences to recovery and wellness after surviving stressful and traumatic experiences.

Dr. Hostetler-Lippy enjoys forest bathing, hiking, yoga, and obsessively reading when not working.

Dr. Hostetler-Lippy discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing healthcare goods or services consumed by or used on patients relative to the content of this presentation.