Santa Clara University

Peter M Ferren,M.D., M.P.H.

Dr. Ferren, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and based at San Francisco General Hospital.  He received his A.B. in Anthropology from Harvard University, his M.D. from Yale University, and his M.P.H. from the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.  After completing his general psychiatry residency at Emory University, Dr. Ferren trained in child psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center.  Among his current responsibilities, he provides psychiatric evaluation and treatment for patients at the Child and Adolescent Support, Advocacy, and Research Center (CASARC), which is a specialty clinic for children who have experienced or witnessed abuse.  Dr. Ferren is an active member of his professional organization, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, serving for five years on the Work Group on Training Education before his recent appointment to the Work Group on Maintenance of Certification.  He has published articles for primary care providers on the safe prescribing of antidepressants in primary care as well as published research conducted in Bosnia and Croatia regarding the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and self-efficacy among adolescent refugees.