Paul Ballas, DO

Paul A. Ballas, DO, “Surgeon General Advisory: Effects Social Media Use Has on Youth Mental Health,” is clinical director of regulatory affairs with Floreo, Inc., located in Rockville, Maryland and a consultant with Woebot Health, located in San Francisco, California. Board certified in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry, he is an attending psychiatrist at Friends Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Ballas is a graduate of Shippensburg (Pa.) University, Case Western Reserve University in Chicago, Illinois, and a 2004 graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed an internship, psychiatry residency and child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Ballas is an employee with Floreo, Inc. and a consultant at Woebot Health. All relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated.