Matthew Pierson, MD, Assistant Professor (Clinical), earned his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He 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, 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 School of Medicine faculty at the University of Utah, Dr. Pierson has continued to provide clinical education and supervision to trainees. In 2016, he received the Award for Clinical Supervision from the University of Utah Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program. Dr. Pierson is board-certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and he is an active member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. His areas of expertise include evaluating youth with complex psychiatric conditions, caring for patients with severe mood disorders, and providing clinical supervision to trainees. His research interest is in treatment-resistant mood disorders.
Dr. Pierson is active in several clinical services as a child and adolescent inpatient psychiatrist at the University of Utah Huntsman Mental Health Institute. Here he treats hospitalized youth, ages 4-17, with a variety of psychiatric conditions. Dr. Pierson is the co-Medical Director of the Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment (CAT) Program. Additionally, he treats adults and youth in the Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders (TRMD) clinic, where he administers electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and ketamine infusions.
