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Mara Pheister, MD, DFAPA

Associate Professor

Locations

  • Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital
  • Froedtert Hospital
  • Behavioral Health - Tosa Health Center
  • Moorland Reserve Health Center

Specialties

  • Psychiatry

Languages

  • English

Behavioral Health Center-Tosa Health Center

Moorland Reserve Health Center

Education

  • MD - Doctor of Medicine
  • DFAPA - Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatry Association

Biography

Dr. Pheister is an associate professor of psychiatry & behavioral medicine at the 91ɫƵ. Originally from the Milwaukee area, she graduated with a degree in molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She went on to complete medical school at UW before pursuing a psychiatric residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. In New York, she had the opportunity to attend additional seminars at the New York Psychoanalytic Association. After returning to the Midwest, she worked on an inpatient unit and in private practice in the northern suburbs of Chicago. Dr. Pheister returned to Wisconsin in 2009 and has served as the director of residency education since September of that year.

In her clinical work, Dr. Pheister has a busy outpatient practice through Froedtert & 91ɫƵ, where she sees patients for long term or acute care and provides psychotherapy in addition to other modalities of treatment. Clinically, she has a particular interest in OCD as well as Borderline Personality Disorder.

Dr. Pheister is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA and serves as the Milwaukee Chapter President of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association. She also serves on the executive committee of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP) and is a Member of the American Association for Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT).

Research Interests

Dr. Pheister is board certified in psychiatry. Her academic and clinical interests include psychotherapy, resident and medical student education, women’s mental health issues.

She sees patients at the Moorland Reserve Health Center and at the Center for Consultative Academic Psychiatric Services (CCAPS).             

Publications

  • (Chardavoyne PC, Pheister M.) Acad Psychiatry. 2024 Dec;48(6):665-666 PMID: 39078575 07/30/2024

  • (Chan CH, Mintz D, Pheister M.) Int Rev Psychiatry. 2023;35(7-8):551-554 PMID: 38461383 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85173752034 03/10/2024

  • (Chan CH, Mintz D, Pheister M.) International Review of Psychiatry. 2023;35(7-8):551-554 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85173752034 01/01/2023

  • (Pheister M, Cowley D, Sanders W, Keeble T, Lu F, Pershern L, Wolf K, Walaszek A, Aggarwal R.) Acad Psychiatry. 2022 Aug;46(4):421-427 PMID: 34292538 PMCID: PMC8296832 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85111288223 07/23/2021

  • (Pheister M, Peters RM, Wrzosek MI.) Acad Psychiatry. 2020 Oct;44(5):554-561 PMID: 32415458 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084989296 05/18/2020

  • (Owen JR, Pheister M, Simons GJ Jr.) MedEdPORTAL. 2018 Nov 28;14:10776 PMID: 30800976 PMCID: PMC6342417 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074379764 02/26/2019

  • (Pheister M, Stagno S, Cotes R, Prabhakar D, Mahr F, Crowell A, Schwartz A.) Acad Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;41(1):114-117 PMID: 26763534 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85010210667 01/15/2016

  • (Pheister M, Kangas G, Thompson C, Lehrmann J, Berger B, Kemp J.) Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Oct;38(5):600-4 PMID: 24800730 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84907216511 05/08/2014

  • (Pheister M.) Current Psychiatry. 2013;12(8):19 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84884260150 09/23/2013

  • (Estabrook KR, Pheister M.) J Clin Psychopharmacol. 2012 Jun;32(3):417-8 PMID: 22561473 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84861021650 05/09/2012