Penn Medicine Provider
Maria A. Oquendo, MD, PhD

About me

  • Chair, Department of Psychiatry
  • Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry

Education and training

  • Medical School: Columbia University
  • Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Oquendo is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Tran, JT; Webster, JL; Wolfe, JR; Ben Nathan, J; Mayinja, L; Kautz, M; Oquendo, MA; Brown, GK; Mandell, D; Mowery, D; Bauermeister, JA; Brown, LA Experiences of Peer Mentoring Sexual and Gender Diverse Emerging Adults Who are at Risk for Suicide: A Mixed Methods Study , JMIR Formative Research: 2025


Connolly Gibbons, MB; Tyler, J; Crits-Christopher, P; Cristancho, M; Galbraith, J; Chiu, RY; Duong, LA; Oquendo, MA A Multifaceted Outpatient Treatment Model for Mood and Anxiety Disorders Designed to Optimize Both Treatment Outcomes and Access to Care , Psychotherapy: 2025


Mucavele, J; Nhancupe, N; Monteiro, GER; Miambo, RD; Gouveia, L; Pondja, A; Sousa, IM; Bickler, SW; Benson, CA; Schooley, RT; Schmidt, V; Ruether, C; Stelzle, D; Prazeres da Costa, C; Suade, L; Wainberg, ML; Oquendo, MA; Winkler, AS; Noormahomed, EV; Zambézia Cysticercosis Working Group Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis in people from Mocuba district, Zambézia province: A Mozambican community-based study , PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: 2025


Na, PJ; Shin, J; Kwak, HR; Lee, J; Jester, D; Bandara, P; Kim, JY; Moutier, C; Pietrzak, RH; Oquendo, MA; Jeste, DV Social Determinants of Health and Suicide-Related Outcomes – A Review of Meta-Analyses , JAMA Psychiatry: 2025


Tran, JT; Webster, J; Wolfe, JR; Ben Nathan, J; Mayinja, L; Kautz, M; Oquendo, MA; Brown, GK; Mandell, D; Mowery, D; Bauermeister, JA; Brown, L Experiences of Peer Mentoring Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging Adults Who Are at Risk for Suicide: Mixed Methods Study , JMIR Formative Research: 2025


Sosa, MZP; de la Vega-Sánchez, D; Sanz-Gómez, S; Giner, L; Melvin, G; Sánchez-Gómez, A; Guija, JA; Oquendo, MA Suicide Risk Among Cannabis, Heroin and Cocaine Users , International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction: 2025


Massinga, LJ; Greene, MC; Duarte, CS; Mandlate, F; Santos, PF; Gouveia, L; Oquendo, MA; Mello, MF; Wainberg, ML Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Mozambique: Validation of the Primary Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fifth Edition (PC-PTSD-5) , Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy : 2025


Smith, A; Artese, A; Oquendo, MA; Bhugra, D; Moura, HF; Liebrenz, M “Sleepy Joe”, “el loco”, and evolving debates about mental health and democratic leadership in the Americas , Lancet Regional Health - Americas: 2025


Donnelly, HK; Brown, GK; Green, KL; Vurgun, U; Hwang, S; Schriver, E; Steinberg, M; Reilly, M; Mehta, H; Labouliere, C; Oquendo, MA; Mandell, M; Mowery, DL Exploring the potential of large language models for automated safety plan scoring in outpatient mental health settings , medRxiv: 2025


Moran, P; Chandler, A; Dudgeon, P; Kirtley, OJ; Knipe, D; Pirkis, J; Sinyor, M; Allister, R; Ansloos, J; Ball, MA; Chan, LF; Darwin, L; Derry, KL; Heney, V; Hetrick, S; Li, A; Machado, DB; McAllister, E; McDaid, D; Mehra, I; Niederkrotenthaler, T; Nock, MK; O’Keefe, VM; Oquendo, MA; Osafo, J; Patel, V; Pathare, S; Peltier, S; Roberts, T; Robinson, J; Shand, F; Stirling, F; Stoor, JPA; Swingler, N; Turecki, G; Venkatesh, S; Waitoki, W; Wright, M; Yip, PSF; Spoelma, MJ; Kapur, N; O’Connor, RC; Christensen, H The Lancet Commission on Self-Harm , The Lancet: 2024