Dr. Gerring was an attending physician at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She was also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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Dr. Gerring completed undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. She completed a pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed a general and child psychiatry residency at Payne Whitney Clinic/Cornell Medical Center. She is Board-Certified in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Gerring served as the Medical Director of the Child Psychiatry Outpatient Program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a comprehensive program for 1700 children in East Baltimore providing a continuum of mental health services. Dr. Gerring is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.

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Dr. Gerring’s primary research interest relates to the psychiatric sequelae of pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. She has published articles on anxiety disorders and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder after TBI, describing injury, psychosocial, and neuroimaging risk factors for these disorders.