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Dr. Vincent Felitti is a noted physician and researcher on the negative impacts of adverse
childhood experiences on adults. Dr. Felitti is one of the principal investigators of the Adverse
Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, a long�term, in�depth analysis of over 18,000 adults that
matches their current health status against eight categories of adverse childhood experiences.
The ACE Study documents the conversion of traumatic emotional experiences in childhood
into organic disease later in life.
Dr. Felitti is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School (1962) and a Physician in the
Department of Preventive Medicine, Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He
founded the Department of Preventive Medicine for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego,
California and served as Chief of Preventive Medicine until March 2001. Dr. Felitti is also
Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, and a Fellow of The
American College of Physicians, licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, California, and
Arizona. Dr. Felitti is also the President and CEO of California Institutes of Preventive
Medicine.