Gabrielle M. Cerda, MD, received her BA in Psychology and Animal Physiology and MD at UCSD; she also trained in General, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine.

Dr. Cerda is a board certified Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, has served as the Clinical Director at Rady Children’s Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry (RCOP) for the past 9 years, and is head of the Latino Mental Health Services Program. Dr. Cerda is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine. She oversees and supervises the UCSD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellows’ First and Second Year outpatient rotations, and teaches various seminars in the Fellowship, including Advanced Pharmacology, Therapeutic Interventions, and Cultural Psychiatry. She also teaches and supervises trainees and staff in psychology, social work, and marriage and family therapy.

During her faculty tenure at UC Davis, Dr. Cerda was awarded the UC Davis Hispanic Center of Excellence Faculty Development Award (1998-2000). Under her leadership the Latino Mental Health Services Program at Children's Outpatient Psychiatry at UCSD received the 2001 Mental Health Directors' Children's Program of the Year Award. In 2002, Dr. Cerda received the UCSD Diversity Award for promoting diversity. In 2007 the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) awarded Dr. Cerda and the Latino Mental Health Services Program the Rieger Service Program Award for Excellence. She is currently a member of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)’s .Diversity and Culture Committee, and the Co-Chair, of that Committee’s Cultural Curriculum Workgroup. Her clinical and research interests include Autism Spectrum Disorders, maternal depression and its effects on children and mental health issues in Latinos.