Cara Toretta, MD

Cara Toretta, MD, is the Director of KHouse, Silver Hill’s Adolescent Residential Program. Dr. Toretta joined Silver Hill in 2021 following a Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale, where she served as Chief Fellow. Dr. Toretta attended the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, a member of the first graduating class of the new medical school, and completed residency training with the Harvard Longwood Psychiatric Residency program, practicing at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital.

Prior to entering the field of medicine, Dr. Toretta attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning SB and SM degrees in Nuclear Science and Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. She then worked for Arthur D. Little, a management consulting firm before shifting her attention to medicine. Always interested in how people navigate the world and their own experience, Dr. Toretta was drawn to psychiatry and then the adolescent age, which she loves.

Dr. Toretta’s work is defined by her intelligence, curiosity, and the deep partnerships she forms with the patients she treats.