PeterCRaffalliMDFAAP(He/Him)

Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Child Neurology

Attending, Child Neurology | Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology | Harvard Medical School; Director, Bullying and Cyberbullying Program (BACPAC) | Boston Children’s Hospital

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Office
300 Longwood Ave
Fegan 11
Boston, MA 02115
Phone+1 617-355-6388

Fax+1 617-730-0284
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Summary

Attending Child Neurologist at Children's Hospital Boston. Areas of concentration include Autism, Tourette's, ADHD, Epilepsy, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Delay, Chiari malformations, pediatric headache/migraine.

Founder/Director of the only children's hospital based multidisciplinary collaborative clinic for bullying in children with special needs (BACPAC).

Weekly teaching of Neurology to residents at Children's and medical students at Harvard Medical School.

Education & Training

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of MedicineFellowship, Child Neurology, 1989 - 1992
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Cohen Children's Medical CenterResidency, Pediatrics, 1988 - 1989
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Cohen Children's Medical CenterInternship, Pediatrics, 1987 - 1988
Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 1987

Certifications & Licensure

NH State Medical License 1995 - Present
MA State Medical License 1995 - 2025
NY State Medical License 1989 - 1992
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Bullying and ADHD: Which Came First and Does it Matter?
Keder, R., Sege, R. D., Raffalli, P. C., Augustyn, M.> ;Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. 2017 Feb 1
A clinic devoted to peer victimization in special needs children.
Peter Raffalli, Scott L. Pomeroy> ;Annals of Neurology. 2016 Feb 1
119 citations
Copy number variation plays an important role in clinical epilepsy
Heather E. Olson, Yiping Shen, Jennifer Avallone, Beth Rosen Sheidley, Rebecca Pinsky, Ann M. Bergin, Gerard T. Berry, Frank H. Duffy, Yaman Z. Eksioglu, David J. Harr...> ;Annals of Neurology. 2014 Jun 1
12 citations
SOX12 and NRSN2 are candidate genes for 20p13 subtelomeric deletions associated with developmental delay.
Yu An, Sami S. Amr, Alcy Torres, Laura Weissman, Peter Raffalli, Gerald F. Cox, Xiaoming Sheng, Va Lip, Weimin Bi, Ankita Patel, Pawel Stankiewicz, Bai-Lin Wu, Yiping ...> ;American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 2013 Dec 1
Bullying and ADHD: which came first and does it matter?
Keder, R., Sege, R. D., Raffalli, P. C., Augustyn, M.> ;Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. 2013 Oct 18
Age- and gender-dependent obesity in individuals with 16p11.2 deletion.
Yu, Y., Zhu, H., Miller, D. T., Gusella, J. F., Platt, O. S., Wu, B. L., Shen, Y.> ;J Genet Genomics. 2011 Sep 20
Cognitive and behavioral characterization of 16p11.2 deletion syndrome.
Hanson, E., Nasir, R. H., Fong, A., Lian, A., Hundley, R., Shen, Y., Wu, B. L., Holm, I. A., Miller, D. T.> ;J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2010 Oct
256 citations
Clinical Genetic Testing for Patients With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Yiping Shen, Kira A. Dies, Ingrid A. Holm, Carolyn Bridgemohan, Magdi M. Sobeih, Elizabeth B. Caronna, Karen J. Miller, Jean A. Frazier, Iris Silverstein, Jonathan Pic...> ;Pediatrics. 2010 Apr 1
253 citations
Microdeletion/duplication at 15q13.2q13.3 among individuals with features of autism and other neuropsychiatric disorders
David T. Miller, Yiping Shen, Lauren A. Weiss, Joshua M. Korn, Irina Anselm, Carolyn Bridgemohan, Gerald F. Cox, Hope Dickinson, Jennifer K. Gentile, David J. Harris, ...> ;Journal of Medical Genetics. 2009 Apr 1
140 citations
Speech delay and autism spectrum behaviors are frequently associated with duplication of the 7q11.23 Williams-Beuren syndrome region
Jonathan S. Berg, Nicola Brunetti-Pierri, Sarika U. Peters, Sung Hae L. Kang, Chin-To Fong, Jessica M. Salamone, Debra Freedenberg, Vickie L. Hannig, Lisa Albers Prock...> ;Genetics in Medicine. 2007 Jul 1
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Journal Articles

The cyberbullying of children with special needs: Understanding the scope of the problem
Raffalli, Peter C, J Amer Acad Child Adol Psy, 8/2015

Lectures

Strategies to Prevent Injuries and Maltreatment in Children With Developmental Disabilities
National Conference & Exhibition 2019 - American Academy of Pediatrics - New Orleans, LA - 10/27/2019