Dr. Ortin Peralta (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor at the School-Clinical Child Psychology Program, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore/Einstein (PRIME). She is the director of the MIND Lab at Ferkauf and a member of PRIME Center of Health Equity.

Dr. Ortin Peralta completed her training as a clinical psychologist at the Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain. In 2010, she was awarded a two-year pre-doctoral fellowship from the Alicia Koplowitz Foundation at the NYS Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center. Shortly after earning her doctorate from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2015, she joined the Laboratory for the Study of Youth Cognition and Suicide at Hunter College (CUNY), where she completed her postdoctoral training.

Dr. Ortin Peralta has received funding as Principal Investigator from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). She is also a co-investigator on a R01/RF1 grant that examines cognitive and biobehavioral processes of suicidal behavior among adolescents and a supplement aimed to examine the content of suicidal ideation in children.

Pre-registered methods published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). Polanco-Roman L., William S., Ortin-Peralta A. Structural racism and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among U.S. adolescents: Differences by race and ethnicity. In press.

Boyd R. & Molock S., Alvarez K., Cha C., Denton E, Glenn C.R., Hughes J.L., Meca A., Miranda R., Mueller A., Meza J., Ortin-Peralta A., Polanco-Roman L., Singer J.B., Zullo L., Miller A.B. (2023). Culturally responsive assessment of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in youth of color. American Psychologist. In press.

Ortin-Peralta A., Kerkela M., Veijola J., Sourander A., Gissler M., Duarte CS. (2022). Parental suicide attempts and offspring mental health problems in childhood and adolescence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. In press.

Warner C.M., Reyes-Portillo J., Kline E.A., Bixter M.T., Chu B., Miranda R., Nadeem E., Nickerson A., Ortin-Peralta A., Reigada L., Rizvi S., Roy A., Shatkin J., Kalver E., Rette D. (2022). The Psychological, Academic, and Economic Impact of COVID-19 on College Students in the Epicenter of the Pandemic. Journal Emerging Adults; 10(2):473-490.

Klein E., Ortin-Peralta A., Polanco-Roman, L., Miranda R (2022). Association between exposure to suicidal behavior and suicide attempts among adolescents: the moderating role of psychiatric disorders. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1-10.

Ortin-Peralta A., Keski-Säntti M., Gissler M., Veijola J., Sourander A., Duarte CS (2021). Parental suicide attempts and offspring's risk of attempting or dying by suicide: does the timing of a parental suicide attempt matter? Psychological Medicine, 1-10.

Szlyk H., Berk M., Ortin-Peralta A, Miranda R (2020). COVID-19 takes adolescent suicide prevention to less charted territory. Journal of Adolescent Health, 67(2):161-163

Zerrate C, Ortin-Peralta A, Erban R, Reyes-Portillo J, Schonfeld Reichel E, Desai P, Duarte CS (2020). Providing evidenced-based and culturally competent care to racial/ethnic minority young adults with anxiety disorders: The experience of an urban medical center clinic. Journal of Evidence-Based Practice in Child & Adolescent Mental Health, 5(2): 189-207.

Ortin A., Miranda R (2020). Menarche and onset of suicidal ideation among high-risk girls. Psychiatry Research, 290, 113059.

Duarte C., Klotz J., Elkington K., Shrout P.E., Canino G., Eisenberg R., Ortin A., Henriquez-Castillo M., Corbeil T., Bird B. (2019). Severity and frequency of antisocial behaviors: late adolescence/young adulthood Antisocial Behavior Index. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29(4), 1200-1211.

Babajide A., Ortin A., Mufson L., Wei C., Duarte C.S. (2019) Transition cliffs for young adults with anxiety and depression: Is integrated mental health care a solution? Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 47(2), 275-292.

Ortin A., Elkington K., Eisenberg R., Miranda R., Bird H.R., Canino G.J., Duarte C.S. (2019). Suicide attempts and course of suicidal ideation among Puerto Rican early adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 47(10):1723-1734. PMID: 31065859.

Elkington K., Wainberg M.L., Ramos-Olazagasti, M., Chen C., Ortin A., Canino G., Bird HR, Duarte C.S. (2019). Developmental trends in sexual attraction among Puerto Rican youth in two contexts. Child Development. PMID: 31325160.

Paul E. & Ortin A. (2019). Psychopathological mechanisms of early neglect and abuse on suicidal ideation and self-harm in middle childhood. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 28(10), 1311-1319. PMID: 30783774.

Scorza P., Duarte C.S., Hipwell A., Posner J., Ortin A., Canino G., Monk C. (2019). Intergenerational transmission of disadvantage: Epigenetics and parents’ childhoods as the first exposure. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; 60(2):119-132. PMID: 29473646.

Ortin A., Miranda R., Polanco-Roman L., Shaffer D. (2018): Parent-adolescent acculturation gap and suicidal ideation among adolescents from an Emergency Department. Archive of Suicide Research. PMID: 28934077.

Paul E. & Ortin A. (2017). Correlates of suicidal ideation and self-harm in early childhood in a cohort at-risk for child abuse and neglect. Archives of Suicide Research; 23(1):134-150. PMID: 29281595.

Miranda R., Ortin A., Scott M., Shaffer D. (2014). Characteristics of suicidal ideation that predict the transition to future suicide attempts in adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry; 55(11), 1288-1296. PMID: 24827817

Ortin A., Lake M.L., Kleinman M., Gould M.S. (2012). Sensation seeking as risk factor for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in adolescence. Journal of Affective Disorders; 143(1-3): 214-22. PMID: 22921521