Biography
Peter L. Loper, Jr., is a quadruple board-certified physician in pediatrics, general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine. Following pediatrics residency, he worked as a pediatrician while completing a second residency in psychiatry, the American Psychoanalytic Association's Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program, and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. As an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of South Carolina (USC) School of Medicine, he served as the director of education for the psychiatry clerkship and course director for the medicine student ethics and professionalism course. As a senior associate in the Office of Continuous Professional Development, he co-facilitated the Prisma Health–USC School of Medicine's Physician Leadership Institute. He is currently the program director for the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Rural Track Psychiatry Residency Program, and he is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the MUSC College of Medicine, and at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM). He also serves as the medical director at the Tri-County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (TCCADA), and he is the founder and principal of Pursuit Executive Coaching and Leadership Development. In addition to his private coaching experience, he has spent three years as an executive leadership coach in the McNulty Leadership Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.