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2007-2008 CHADD
Professional Advisory Board


Ann Abramowitz, Ph.D., Chair
Ann Abramowitz, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of psychology at Emory University and supervises residents in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the university's medical school. Abramowitz was a co-investigator on the National Institute of Mental Health's Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA) and currently consults with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on AD/HD as well as early identification of at-risk children. Earlier in her career, Abramowitz taught children with autism, learning disabilities and behavioral disorders and served as coordinator of special education for a school district.

Andrew Adesman, M.D.
Andrew Adesman, M.D., is chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, New York, and associate professor of pediatrics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Adesman is also the director of the Adoption Evaluation Center at Schneider Children’s Hospital and recently co-authored a book about adoptive parenting. His research focuses on clinical treatment of AD/HD, and he is active in community outreach as well as parent, teacher and physician education about the disorder.

Arthur D. Anastopoulos, Ph.D.
Arthur Anastopoulos, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he serves as director of clinical training and directs an AD/HD specialty clinic for children, adolescents and adults. Anastopoulos has been an investigator on several federally and university-funded research grants, including a recently awarded five-year grant to study the genetic basis of AD/HD. He has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the topic of AD/HD and is the lead author on a recently published text entitled, Assessing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

L. Eugene Arnold, M.D., M.Ed. 
A nationally recognized child psychiatrist with more than 30 years of academic and clinical experience, Eugene Arnold, M.D., M.Ed., is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Ohio State University. Arnold has been involved in numerous studies involving AD/HD and is the author of nine books and more than 120 articles in professional journals. He is also a researcher on the National Institute of Mental Health’s Multimodal Treatment Study.

Rahn Bailey, M.D., F.A.P.A.
Rahn Bailey, M.D., F.A.P.A., is chair of the National Medical Association’s (NMA) Section on Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. A dual-certified forensic psychiatrist, Bailey has served on the medical faculty of Louisiana State University in New Orleans, and has clinical appointments at Tulane and Baylor Colleges of Medicine. Bailey has also served as an associate professor at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Currently, Bailey is director of the Program of Law and Psychiatry at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. In addition, he is the chairperson for the NMA’s Katrina Response Effort. In that capacity, he leads teams of physicians in treating the mental health needs of those displaced by the hurricane and its aftermath. Bailey served as a faculty member at the CHADD-Congressional Black Caucus Congressional briefing on AD/HD.

Diane Buckingham, M.D.
A clinician in Overland Park, Kansas, Diane Buckingham, M.D., travels the country educating children, caregivers and school officials about AD/HD and its treatment options. She is an assistant professor for Kansas City University, and an expert in the mental health care of African American and biracial children. As an active member of the National Medical Association and as someone who works to eliminate barriers to treatment, Buckingham was heavily involved in a meeting organized by CHADD that led to a consensus statement on AD/HD in the African American community.

Judith A. Cook, Ph.D.
Judith Cook, Ph.D., is professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she directs the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy (CMHSRP), which houses a federally funded center and a number of research and evaluation studies. Cook served as a consultant on employment and income supports for the president’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health and authored a report for its subcommittee on employment and income supports for people with mental illness.

Thomas Cummins, M.D.
Thomas Cummins, M.D., treats children and adolescents with AD/HD and other mental health disorders at Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. In addition to participating in numerous studies on medication trials involving the treatment of AD/HD, Cummins researches ways to optimize AD/HD treatment in the primary care setting. Moreover, he has worked closely with CHADD to develop the appropriate tools to explain AD/HD and bipolar disorder to the public. He formerly was on the faculty of Emory University.

Ricardo Eiraldi, Ph.D.
Ricardo Eiraldi, Ph.D., is assistant professor of clinical psychology in the department of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania and program director of the Behavioral Health in Urban Schools Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assess diagnostic issues in AD/HD among Hispanic/Latino individuals and other underserved populations. His current research focuses on the application of help-seeking behavior models in the study of health disparities in AD/HD. Eiraldi has authored and co-authored many articles and book chapters on diagnostic issues.

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.
Sam Goldstein, Ph.D., is an assistant clinical instructor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Goldstein has worked since 1982 in private practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing evaluation, case management and treatment services for children and adults with histories of neurological disease and trauma, learning disabilities, adjustment difficulties and AD/HD. Goldstein is on staff at the university's Neuropsychiatric Institute.

Jeffrey Halperin, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Halperin is a professor in the psychology department at Queens College of the City of New York. He focuses in his research and course on Developmental Neuropsychology, AD/HD and Developmental Psychopathology. He has been principal investigator of numerous studies about AD/HD and learning disabilities, many funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has previously received the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar’s Award and the Queen’s College Presidential Research Award.

Peter Jensen, M.D.
Peter Jensen, M.D., is the director of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health and professor of child psychiatry at Columbia University. Previously, Dr. Jensen was the associate director of child and adolescent research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He was one of the lead investigators on NIMH's landmark Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA). Jensen also serves on many editorial and scientific advisory boards, has authored over 200 scientific articles and book chapters, and is the recipient of many national awards.

Thomas Power, Ph.D
Thomas Power, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Management of AD/HD at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and associate professor of the School Psychology in Pediatrics and Education at University of Pennsylvania. He is the principal investigator of a clinical trial, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-school intervention for AD/HD. His interests include developing AD/HD intervention services in primary care practices and addressing disparities in AD/HD services based on ethnic, racial and socioeconomic factors. Power is the editor of School Psychology Review.

Adelaide Robb, M.D.
Adelaide Robb, M.D., is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with practices at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the Children’s Outpatient Center in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was awarded a fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health, with specialties in Bipolar Disorder and Psychopharmacology. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist with a specialty in psychopharmacology, Robb is extremely knowledgeable about AD/HD medications and treats many children and adolescents with AD/HD. She is well-versed on medication management, medication trials and studies. She has been very committed to educating pediatricians and primary care providers about psychiatric medications and issues, leading training institutes for these audiences at American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s annual conference and in other venues.

Ann Schulte, Ph.D.
Ann Schulte, Ph.D., is professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Prior to coming to North Carolina State in 1994, she was a clinician in the Attention Disorders Program at Duke University Medical Center and a clinical supervisor on the National Institute of Mental Health’s Multimodal Treatment of AD/HD Study. Schulte’s research interests center on improving the quality of services and educational outcomes for children with learning disorders, ranging from school responses to children with reading difficulties to the inclusion of children with disabilities in high-stakes testing programs. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of School Psychology Review, Journal of School Psychology, Journal of Learning Disabilities, and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, and was associate editor of the School Psychology Quarterly.

Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D.
A professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Michigan State University, Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D., has expertise in the neuropsychological basis of AD/HD and co-occurring disorders and interventions for childhood psychiatric disorders. She has been presenting at CHADD conferences for the past eight years, and has authored numerous articles on AD/HD for general and professional publications. Semrud-Clikeman holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with specialties in neuropsychology and child psychopathology, from the University of Georgia. She completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and received a training grant from NIMH to complete neuroimaging studies of children with AD/HD. She has received funding from NIH for neuroimaging studies of children with AD/HD on and off stimulant medication. Her current research interests include neuroimaging studies of children with AD/HD, studying response to success and failure at tasks, as well as an understanding of children with social competence disorders and their processing of social interactions.

Martin Stein, M.D.
Martin Stein, M.D., received his pediatrics training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. For the past 25 years, Stein has been a clinician and educator in the Department of General Pediatrics and the University of California School Of Medicine. He directed the Division of General Pediatrics and the faculty practice. The recent past chair of the AAP Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, he edited the Academy's Guidelines for Health Supervision III. His major academic interest has been the development of methods to incorporate concepts about child development and behavioral pediatrics into educational models and practice of primary care pediatrics. Stein co-authored the book, Encounters with Children—Pediatric Behavior and Development and is the section editor for "challenging cases" in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.


Professional Advisory Board - Past Members

June 2001-July 2007

Marc S. Atkins, Ph.D.
José J. Bauermeister, Ph.D.
Thomas E. Brown, Ph.D.
Matthew Cohen, J.D.
Karl Dennis
Steven W. Evans, Ph.D.
Lawrence Greenhill, M.D.
M. Christopher Griffith, M.D.
Stephen B. Hinshaw, Ph.D.
Charles Homer, M.D., M.P.H.
Lynda Katz, Ph.D.
Mark Katz, Ph.D.
Harold Koplewicz, M.D.
Jack Naglieri, Ph.D.
William Pelham, Ph.D.
Bruce Pfeffer, M.D., M.P.H.
Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D.
Jefferson Prince, M.D.
Patricia Quinn, M.D.
David Rabiner, Ph.D.
Nancy A. Ratey, Ed.M., ABDA, MCC
Carl Smith, Ph.D.
Karen Taylor-Crawford, M.D.
Hill M. Walker, Ph.D.
Sharon R. Weiss, M.Ed.
Timothy Wilens, M.D.

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