Bradley Peterson

Bradley S. Peterson is an American psychiatrist, developmental neuroscientist, academic and author. He is the Inaugural Director of the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and holds the positions of Vice Chair for Research and Chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.

Peterson is most known for his neuroscience research on neuropsychiatric disorders including autism, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, Tourette syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and eating disorders, as well as premature birth, the effects of environmental toxins on brain development, and brain mechanisms that mediate the effects of treatments on clinical outcomes. He has also studied normal brain development, and brain processes that support normal cognitive and emotional processes.

Peterson was named Outstanding Mentor by the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in 2006 and 2014, and he is the recipient of the 2007 Columbia University John J. Weber Prize for Outstanding Research, the 2012 American Psychiatric Association Blanche Ittleson Award, the 2024 Leadership in Child, Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry from the American College of Psychiatrists, the 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award from the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia and Cornell Universities, and the 2017 and 2020 USC Keck School of Medicine Dean's Teaching Award.

Peterson is a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American College of Psychiatrists. He is the Editor for the Neuroscience Section of the ''Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry''. Provided by Wikipedia