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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