Ana Ortin Peralta, Ph.D.
- Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Area of research
- Dr. Ortin Peralta uses a mixed methods approach to examine how development, culture, and context interact to increase suicide risk among children and adolescents from diverse backgrounds. Her research also focuses on identifying psychological pathways
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Location
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine Louis and Dora Rousso Building 1165 Morris Park Avenue 111 Bronx, NY 10461
Professional Interests
Dr. Ortin Peralta 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.
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.