About
Pete Loper, Jr, MD, MSEd is a quadruple board certified physician, educator, and executive coach who has spent nearly two decades studying, researching, and educating others about the fundamental factors critical for healthy development, wellbeing, and success throughout the lifespan. His life-purpose is to apply his rare expertise to support others in the relentless pursuit of their theoretical limits.
"A wonderful and fun-loving human being, Dr. Loper can be commended for his exemplary communication skills in all domains. He is an engaging speaker, an effective facilitator, an eloquent writer, a focused physician, and an accomplished listener. His command of all facets of human growth and development is awe-inspiring, and this, accompanied by his empathy and real-world experience, serves to inform all his interactions. Dr. Loper is a rare find– someone who is brilliant but who leads with humility and compassion. I am lucky to call him my professional colleague and friend."
-Dr. Janet Reid
​Precision Education Leader
Vice Chair of Education and Professor of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
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Physician
Originally from Charlotte, NC, Dr. Loper began his undergraduate studies in English at Kenyon College prior to moving closer to home to complete his premedical coursework and Bachelor of Arts at the University of South Carolina (USC) in Columbia, SC. He earned his Doctor of Medicine from the USC School of Medicine, and his Master of Science in Education (M.S. Ed.) at the University of Pennsylvania. Following medical school, Dr. Loper completed a residency in pediatrics. He then worked as a pediatrician while completing a second residency in psychiatry, the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsaA) Fellowship Program, and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. He is the only physician ever to complete two separate residency programs and a fellowship program in the Palmetto Health and USC School of Medicine graduate medical education system. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American Board of Preventative Medicine. He is one of a handful of physicians nationally to achieve quadruple board certification status in pediatrics, general psychiatry, child & adolescent psychiatry, and addiction medicine.
Educator
Dr. Loper earned his Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) from the University of Pennsylvania medical education master's program. He is affiliated faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He is visiting faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) where he currently serves as the residency program director for the MUSC Orangeburg Community Psychiatry Residency Program. He has worked in consulting roles supporting curriculum design and learner evaluation in secondary, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate education levels, and has participated as a Penn Alumni Ambassador, conducting interviews for undergraduate admissions to the University of Pennsylvania. Previously as an assistant professor at the USC School of Medicine, Columbia, he was the director of education for the psychiatry clerkship and the course director for the introduction to clinical medicine ethics and professionalism series. He has won multiple teaching awards to include the Prisma Health Department of Psychiatry Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Medical Student Education, the Teacher of the Year Award for the Prisma Health Child Psychiatry Fellowship Program, the Teacher of the Year Award for the Prisma Health General Psychiatry Residency Program, the USC School of Medicine Psychiatry Clerkship Director's Medical Student Educator Award, and the Outstanding Clinical Preceptor Award for the USC Physician’s Assistant Program. He has been nominated as a finalist for the USC School of Medicine's Clinical Teacher of the Year Award as well as the O'Neil Barrett Award for Teaching Excellence in Clinical Sciences.
Coach
Dr. Loper earned his coach certification from the Teleos Leadership Institute's Coach Development Program, an intensive 9-month, ICF accredited Level 2 program facilitated by experts in the field of Emotional Intelligence, Resonant Leadership, Gestalt and systems theory. He is the founder and principal of Pursuit Executive Coaching and Leadership Development. He is an executive coach in the Executive Coaching and Feedback Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and he is a coach in the Penn Med- Ed Master Program. He has served as a Senior Associate in the Prisma Health Midlands and USC School of Medicine Office of Continuous Professional Development, and co-facilitated the Prisma Health-Midlands' Physician Leadership Institute. He has been included on Influence Digest Media's Top Coaches list for Columbia, SC in 2023 and 2024.
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