Matthew Pierson, MD

Languages Spoken: English

Dr. Matthew Pierson is an Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Psychiatry at the University of Utah, where he is active in several clinical services. He is a child and adolescent inpatient psychiatrist at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI). Here he treats hospitalized youth, ages 4-17, with a variety of psychiatric conditions. Dr. Pierson is also the co-Medical Director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment (CAT) Program at UNI. He also treats adults and youth in the Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders (TRMD) clinic.

Dr. Pierson's areas of experise include evaluating youth with complex psychiatric conditions, caring for patients with severe mood disorders, and providing clinical supervision to trainees. Through the TRMD clinic, Dr. Pierson administers electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and ketamine infusions. Dr. Pierson has been the recipient of the Award for Clinical Supervision by the University of Utah Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program.

Dr. Matthew Pierson, Assistant Professor (Clinical), earned his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He then completed psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Duke University, where he served as chief resident during his fellowship training. While at Duke University, Dr. Pierson gave frequent lectures to medical students, residents, and community clinicians on child and adolescent psychiatry. He also participated in conducting clinical trials research in brain stimulation technologies including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and magnetic seizure therapy (MST).

Since joining the faculty at the University of Utah, Dr. Pierson has continued to provide clinical education and supervision to trainees. His research interest is in treatment-resistant mood disorders. Dr. Pierson is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.