2012-2013 CHADD
Professional Advisory Board
Ann Abramowitz, PhD, Chair
Ann Abramowitz, PhD, 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 ADHD 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.
Theresa E. Laurie Maitland, PhD, Co-chair
Theresa E. Laurie Maitland, PhD, is the coordinator of the Academic
Success Program for Students with LD and ADHD at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined the staff at UNC in 1994 to
work with college students. Since 1996, Dr. Maitland and her colleagues
at UNC have studied the field of professional coaching and its
application to college students with special learning needs. She became
a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach by the The Coaches Training
Institute in 2003. Dr. Maitland has a private coaching practice,
specializing in work with teens, adults and families with learning,
attentional and emotional challenges. Dr. Maitland has written several
children's books celebrating individual differences. She and Dr.
Patricia Quinn have published two books on the subject of transition to
college: Ready for Take-Off: Preparing Teens with ADHD or LD for
College was awarded the 2011 National Parenting Publication
Honors Award, and On Your Own: A College Readiness Guide for Teens
with ADHD/LD. Both books were selected as Mom's Choice Gold
Award winners for 2011.
Maria T. Acosta, MD
Dr. Acosta is Associatee Professor Department of Neurology and
Pediatrics, George Washington University; and Clinical Director
Neurofibromatosis Institute, Department of Neurology, Children's
National Medical Center. FULL BIO
COMING SOON
L. Eugene Arnold, MD, MEd
A nationally recognized child psychiatrist with
more than thirty years of academic and clinical experience, Eugene
Arnold, MD, MEd, is professor emeritus of psychiatry at Ohio State
University. Arnold has been involved in numerous studies involving
ADHD 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.
Jose Bauermeister, PhD
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Regina Bussing, MD, is a professor of
psychiatry at the University of Florida. Bussing’s major clinical
interests include comprehensive treatment approaches to disruptive
disorders of childhood, combining pharmacotherapy, parent training,
clinical group therapies, and school interventions. Her research focus
includes mental health services for children and adolescents with an
emphasis on ADHD, and ADHD in the African-American community. Her
studies have focused on access to care, barriers to care, quality of
care, service use across sectors, and outcomes using epidemiological
sampling frames. Bussing worked with CHADD and experts from across the
country on a consensus statement on ADHD in the African-American
community.
Glenn Elliott, PhD, MD, is
chief psychiatrist and interim outpatient director at the
Children’s Health Council and emeritus professor of clinical
psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. A
board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, he served as director
of the Children’s Center at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
from 1989 to 2006. He has a long-standing interest in severe mental
disorders in childhood, especially with respect to the appropriate role
of medications in their treatment. He has studied medication treatment
for ADHD for over twenty years, and was an investigator in the
Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD.
Jeffrey Halperin, PhD
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, ADHD and Developmental
Psychopathology. He has been principal investigator of numerous studies
about ADHD 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.
Scott Kollins, PhD
Dr. Kollins is
Associate Professor and Director, Duke University ADHD Program
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine. FULL
BIO COMING SOON
Ronald A. Kotkin, PhD, is a clinical
professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of
California, Irvine. He is also director of UC-Irvine's Child Development
Center day treatment program for children with ADHD. Kotkin previously
served as professor of special education in charge of a graduate degree
and credential program in special education. A licensed
psychologist, he was formerly a special education teacher at the
elementary school level. In addition, he is a consultant to school
districts in developing school-based interventions for children with
attention and behavioral problems. He assisted Wood Canyon Elementary
School in developing its exceptional schoolwide intervention plan, which
was recognized with the Golden Bell award by California's department of
education. Kotkin has published multiple articles and book chapters on
school-based intervention, and recently coedited a book for
practitioners, Therapist's Guide to Learning and Attention
Disorders (with Aubrey Fine). He developed the Irvine
Paraprofessional Program, which was recognized by the Kentucky Federal
Resource Center as a "promising practice" for intervening with students
with ADHD in the general education classroom. CHADD presented Kotkin,
along with Jim Swanson and Steve Simpson, with an award for the
development of the most innovative program serving children with ADHD in
the general education classroom. He has been a presenter at many
international and national conferences, and also contributed his
expertise to a major NIMH study on long-term treatment effects on
children with ADHD.
Nicholas Lofthouse, PhD
Dr. Lofthouse is
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Ohio State
University. FULL BIO COMING SOON
Andrew Rowland, PhD
Dr. Rowland is currently an Associate
Professor in the University of New Mexico Department of Family and
Community Medicine. His research interests include
occupational/environmental epidemiology, perinatal epidemiology and
psychiatric epidemiology. Dr. Rowland has been studying the epidemiology
and public health impact of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) for the last 15 years; he recently completed a NIH funded
ten-year, population-based, follow-up study of children who were
identified with ADHD in elementary school. Dr. Rowland has a particular
interest in stress and the developing brain, and in developing
interventions to foster healthy development. Dr. Rowland teaches classes
in epidemiologic data analysis, perinatal epidemiology and developmental
epidemiology. He is a co-investigator on projects on neurologic disease
among the American Indians, the joint effects of pesticide exposure and
stress on child development in the children of Ecuadorean flower workers
(Dr. Alexis Handal ,PI), and understanding barriers to breast feeding at
UNM hospital (Dr. Emilie Sebesta, PI). Prior to coming to UNM, Dr.
Rowland worked for over 10 years in the epidemiology branch of the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.
He also spent many years teaching workers about occupational health and
working with labor unions to improve health and safety conditions in
their workplaces.
Ann Schulte, PhD
Ann Schulte, PhD, 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 ADHD 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.
Mary Solanto, PhD
Dr. Solanto is Associate Professor of
Psychiatry and director of the ADHD Center in the Division of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She completed
her undergraduate education at Princeton University, and received her
PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University at Buffalo. She
subsequently completed an NIMH post-doctoral in the Department of
Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr.
Solanto’s research on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of
children with ADHD, the effects of psychostimulants, and characteristics
of the subtypes of ADHD has been supported by grants from the National
Institute of Neurological Diseases, the National Institute of Mental
Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. Solanto has also worked extensively with adults with ADHD. She
developed a novel cognitive-behavioral intervention which targets
problems of time-management and organization in adults with ADHD and was
the focus of a recently completed NIMH-sponsored treatment efficacy
study. The manual for therapists was published by Guilford Press (2011),
titled, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Adult ADHD: Targeting
Executive Dysfunction.
Jeffrey Sprague, PhD
Jeffrey Sprague, PhD, is a Professor of Special Education and Director
of the University of Oregon Institute on Violence and Destructive
Behavior. His research activities encompass applied behavior analysis,
positive behavior supports, behavioral response to intervention,
functional behavioral assessment, school safety, youth violence
prevention, and juvenile delinquency prevention. Dr. Sprague began his
career as a teacher of students with low incidence cognitive
disabilities, and his early career research was focused primarily in
this content area. In 2008 Dr. Sprague published a book on Response to
Intervention and Behavior Supports. Dr. Sprague currently directs a
research grant from the National Institute in Drug Abuse to evaluate the
effects of Positive Behavior Supports in middle schools.
Craig Bruce Hackett Surman, MD
FULL BIO COMING SOON
Max
Wiznitzer, MD
Dr. Max Wiznitzer
is a graduate of Northwestern University School of Medicine. He trained
in pediatrics and developmental disorders at Cinicnnati Childrens
Hospital and in pediatric neurology at Childrens Hospital of
Philadelphia. He then did a National Instutues of Health funded
fellowship in disorders of higher cortical functioning in children at
the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. Since 1986, he has
been a pediatric neurologist at Rainbow Babies & Childrens Hospital
in Cleveland, OH. He is an associate professor of pediatrics, neurology
and international health at Case Western Reserve University. He has a
longstanding interest in neurodevelopmental disabilities, especially
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, and has been
involved in local, state and national committees and initiatives,
including autism treatment research, Ohio autism service guidelines,
autism screening, and early identification of developmental
disabilities. He is on the editorial board of Lancet Neurology and
Journal of Child Neurology and lectures nationally and internationally
about various neurodevelopmental
disabilities.
Professional Advisory Board - Past Members
June 2001-July 2009
Arthur D. Anastopoulos, PhD
Marc S. Atkins, PhD
Thomas E. Brown, PhD
U. Diane Buckingham, MD
Matthew Cohen, JD
Judith A. Cook, PhD
Thomas Cummins, MD
Karl Dennis
Ricardo Eiraldi, PhD
Steven W. Evans, PhD
Lawrence Greenhill, MD
M. Christopher Griffith, MD
Sam Goldstein, PhD
Stephen B. Hinshaw, PhD
Charles Homer, MD, MPH
Peter Jensen, MD
Lynda Katz, PhD
Mark Katz, PhD
Harold Koplewicz, MD
Jack Naglieri, PhD
William Pelham, PhD
Bruce Pfeffer, MD, MPH
Linda Pfiffner, PhD
Jefferson Prince, MD
Thomas Power, PhD
Patricia Quinn, MD
David Rabiner, PhD
Nancy A. Ratey, EdM, ABDA, MCC
Carl Smith, PhD
Karen Taylor-Crawford, MD
Hill M. Walker, PhD
Sharon R. Weiss, MEd
Timothy Wilens, MD
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