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Roberto Montenegro, MD, PhD

Personal Statement

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Seattle Children’s Hospital and UW Medicine and the director of mental health services at Echo Glen Children’s Center. I specialize in cross cultural psychiatry, transgender mental health and mental health for the deaf and hard of hearing. I strive to create active partnerships with his patients and their families to achieve the best possible outcomes.

Education

University of Utah Medical Education, 2012
UCLA Medical Center Master, 2008
Yale University School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Training Program Residency, Psychiatry
University of Utah School of Medicine Fellowship
UW - Dept. of Pediatrics Fellowships Fellowship, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Department Affiliations

Other Affiliations

Echo Glen School – Washington State Department of Health

Recent Publications

"I'm completely off base here on what this child is capable of": A qualitative analysis of how medical ableism manifests in PICU clinicians' care of children with severe neurological impairment.
(2025 Jan)
Disabil Health J 18(1): 101691
Oslin E, Montenegro RE, Kraft SA, Van Cleave A, Bogetz J

The Association of Microaggressions with Depressive Symptoms and Institutional Satisfaction Among a National Cohort of Medical Students.
(2022 Feb)
J Gen Intern Med 37(2): 298-307
Anderson N, Lett E, Asabor EN, Hernandez AL, Nguemeni Tiako MJ, Johnson C, Montenegro RE, Rizzo TM, Latimore D, Nunez-Smith M, Boatright D

My Name Is Not "Interpreter".
(2020 May 5)
JAMA 323(17): 1700-1701
Montenegro RE

Morality in sugar talk: Presenting blood glucose levels in routine diabetes medical visits.
(2020 May)
Soc Sci Med 253(): 112925
Montenegro RE, Dori-Hacohen G

Microaggressions in Clinical Training and Practice.
(2019 Sep)
PM R 11(9): 1004-1012
Overland MK, Zumsteg JM, Lindo EG, Sholas MG, Montenegro RE, Campelia GD, Mukherjee D

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