Matthew Hopperstad, M.D., is an adjunct assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU Child Study Center. Dr. Hopperstad graduated from our residency program in June of 2010.

Dr. Hopperstad completed his undergraduate education at the University of Washington in Seattle where he graduated with a degree in English and was inducted in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He later attended the Post Baccalaureate premedical program at Columbia University. While studying at Columbia, Dr. Hopperstad worked in the Department of Neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine doing research and publishing in the area of membrane channel biophysics.

Dr. Hopperstad earned his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where he was awarded the Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman Prize for Excellence in Psychiatry and was inducted into the Arnold P. Gold Society for Humanism in Medicine. While in medical school, he also received a research fellowship for continuing research in membrane channel biophysics. He completed residency in General Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he was a member of the Executive Education Committee.

Dr. Hopperstad is a member of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.