The Repressed Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Adult Well-being, Disease, and Premature Death

Dr. Vincent J. Felitti has over 50 years of experience in the field of Internal Medicine with extensive knowledge in the areas of childhood trauma, the genetic disease Hemochromatosis, and obesity. Serving as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California since 1982, Dr. Felitti’s knowledge and experience is broad and significantly biopsychosocial.

Dr. Felitti achieved his Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins in 1962 after being inspired to pursue a career in the medical field by his physician family, later becoming a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Prior to this, Dr. Felitti obtained his bachelor’s from Dartmouth College in 1956 and completed graduate studies in Bacteriology at the University of Minnesota in 1958.

After completing his studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1962, Dr. Felitti served as a captain in the medical corps of the United States Army from 1963 to 1965, working as post surgeon at the US Army Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. Dr. Felitti returned to Johns Hopkins University for a fellowship from 1965 to 1967, and from 1967 to 1968 he was a senior resident of medicine with the University of Maryland Hospital. Subsequent to that he spent the next 50 years with the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) in San Diego.