Authors

Pilar Trelles

Pilar Trelles, MD, is a native Peruvian but spent 20 years in the New York City area where she completed her postgraduate training in general psychiatry at New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, and child and adolescent psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After child psychiatry training, she pursued an additional specialized fellowship in neurodevelopmental disorders, also at Mount Sinai, where she focused on using genetics to advance therapeutics in the field. She is currently faculty at Harvard Medical School and works at Boston Children Hospital, where she leads psychiatric care for children with autism spectrum disorder and efforts to increase diversity and inclusion in psychiatric clinical trials more broadly. Pilar is passionate about working with caregivers and other stakeholders to bridge advances in the field of child psychiatry to community care and has participated in multiple research projects and educational initiatives with this goal in mind.