ScottRobertPekrulMD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Service Chief, Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Unit, Sheppard Pratt Health System

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Office
6501 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21204
Phone+1 410-938-3000

Fax+1 410-938-5131

Dr. Scott Pekrul is a psychiatrist in Baltimore, MD and is currently the Service Chief of the Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Unit at Sheppard Pratt Health System. He received his medical degree from Penn State College of Medicine and has been in practice 10 years. He completed his residency in general psychiatry and fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and forensic psychiatry at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He is board certified in both general psychiatry and child & adolescent psychiatry and is experienced in autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, neuropsychiatry, developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity.

The Dr. Fielding Inpatient Teaching Award University of Michigan School of Medicine, 2009
Department of Psychiatry Award for Excellence in Psychiatry Penn State College of Medicine, 2007
Medical Student Research Award Penn State College of Medicine, 2007
Summa Cum Laude University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002
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PubMed

Acts of Medical Kindness for People with Autism.
Robert Wisner-Carlson, Scott R. Pekrul, Thomas Flis, Robert Schloesser
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2021-03-01
2 citations
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan.
Markian Pazuniak, Scott R. Pekrul
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2020-12-01
Autism Spectrum Disorder Grows Up.
Robert Wisner-Carlson, Scott R. Pekrul, Thomas Flis, Robert Schloesser
The Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 2020-12-01

Journal Articles

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Autism Spectrum Disorder Across the Lifespan
Pazuniak, M., & Pekrul, S. R., Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics
Memantine Augmentation in a Down’s Syndrome Adolescent with Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Scott Pekrul, Kate Fitzgerald, JOURNAL OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY, 11/7/2015
Determination of Fitness to Stand Trial and Ineffective Assistance of Defense Counsel
Pekrul, SR, Guyer, MJ, Journal of American Academy of Psychiatry and Law 42:4:523-526, 12/2014
Visual distraction: an altered aiming spatial response in dementia.
Galletta, EE, Lequerica, AH, Pekrul, SR., Eslinger, PJ, and Barrett, AM, Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2(1): 229–237, 1/2012
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