2010-2011 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.
Andrew Adesman, MD
Andrew Adesman, MD, 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 coauthored a book
about adoptive parenting. His research focuses on clinical treatment of
ADHD, and he is active in community outreach as well as parent, teacher
and physician education about the disorder.
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.
Rahn Bailey, MD, FAPA
Rahn Bailey, MD, FAPA, is former chair of the National
Medical Association’s Section on Psychiatry and Behavioral
Science. A dually 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 ADHD.
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.
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.
Brooke Molina, PhD, is associate professor of
psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and director
of the Youth and Family Research Program. She is also a licensed
clinical psychologist in Pennsylvania. Molina’s research interest
is in the course and treatment of disruptive behavior disorders,
principally ADHD and substance use and abuse. She has been federally
funded since 1995, when she began a longitudinal study on ADHD as a risk
factor for alcohol use and abuse in adolescence. That research has taken
the form of a much larger longitudinal study of 604 adolescents and
young adults with and without childhood ADHD (the Pittsburgh ADHD
Longitudinal Study, or PALS). The study is positioned to answer
controversial questions about ADHD risk for alcoholism because of the
extensive data collection, large number of carefully diagnosed children,
and historical information available from childhood. Molina is the lead
investigator or co-investigator on several other studies following
children with ADHD through adolescence and adulthood.
Adelaide Robb, MD
Adelaide Robb, MD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with
practices at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC,
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.
Her specialties are bipolar disorder and psychopharmacology. As a
child and adolescent psychiatrist with a specialty in
psychopharmacology, Robb is extremely knowledgeable about ADHD
medications and treats many children and adolescents with ADHD. 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, 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.
Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, PhD
A professor of psychology and psychiatry at Michigan State
University, Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, PhD, has expertise in the
neuropsychological basis of ADHD 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 ADHD for general and professional
publications. Semrud-Clikeman holds a PhD 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 ADHD. She has received funding from NIH for neuroimaging
studies of children with ADHD on and off stimulant medication. Her
current research interests include neuroimaging studies of children with
ADHD, 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.
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.
Martin Stein, MD
Martin Stein, MD, received his pediatrics training at the
Albert Einstein College of Medicine. For the past twenty-five years,
Stein has been a clinician and educator in the Department of General
Pediatrics at the University of California School Of Medicine. He
directed the Division of General Pediatrics and the faculty practice.
The recent past chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on
Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, he edited the AAP'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 coauthored 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.
Max Wiznitzer, MD
Bio coming soon
Professional Advisory Board - Past Members
June 2001-July 2009
Arthur D. Anastopoulos, PhD
Marc S. Atkins, PhD
José J. Bauermeister, 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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