Penelope Carter, MD

Penelope Carter, MD, is a perinatal psychiatrist with the Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment (CFDT) and the Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She attended Harvard University for her undergraduate degree and completed post-graduate pre-medical classes at University of California Los Angeles and Northwestern University. She went to University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed her psychiatry residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, during which she was the inpatient chief fellow and helped manage and organize inpatient rotations for visiting trainees. Dr. Carter continues to collaborate on an ongoing research project, begun during fellowship, titled The Association of Trauma Exposure and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with BMI in a Community Youth Cohort in the Philadelphia Area.