Tara S. Peris, PhD
(she/her)
About
Dr. Tara Peris is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Associate Dean for Professionalism in the David Geffen School of Medicine. In addition, she is the Associate Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Program Director of the UCLA ABC Partial Hospitalization Program, and Co-Director of the UCLA Child OCD, Anxiety, and Tic Disorders Program. Dr. Peris's research and clinical interests are in developmental psychopathology, with a particular focus on anxiety, OCD, and related disorders. Her research examines developmental trajectories of these conditions as well as strategies for optimizing treatment outcomes.
Dr. Peris's work has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the Patient Centered Research Institute, and several private foundations.
She is the recipient of the 2016 Abidin Early Career Award from the Society of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology and a 2024 Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands.
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Westwood Pediatric Psychiatry
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