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Donald Banik

Projects:

  • Assessment of obstacles to medication compliance of patients with early to mid stages of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Cost effectiveness in routine diagnostic laboratory workup of depression

Honors/Awards:

  • American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar (2007-Present); topic: "Medication non-adherence: Providing a memory aid as a health literacy tool in the geriatric population

David Block:

Publications:

  • Block DR, Kelly MM, Carpenter LL, "Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Diagnostic and Treatment Issues." Directions in Psychiatry. 2006; 26(3):171-181. see it online
  • Block DR, "Brain Stimulation Therapies for Treatment-Resistant Depression." Psychiatric Times, January 2008. see it online

 

Hilary Cerullo:

 

Paul Christopher:

Projects:

  • Readability of informed consent forms used in mental health research.
  • Restoration of competency to stand trial in persons with developmental disabilities.
  • Psychiatry residents’ experiences when conducting psychiatric disability evaluations.
  • Violence and aggression in patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
  • Gender bias among probate judges in will contests.
  • Development of psychiatric advanced directive statute for Rhode Island.

Publications:

  • Christopher PP. Review of Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices by Thomas Szasz. Psychiatric Services. 57(1):148, 2006.
  • Christopher PP, Foti ME, Roy-Bujnowski K, Appelbaum PS. Consent Form Readability and Educational Levels of Potential Participants in Mental Health Research. Psychiatric Services. 58(2):227-32, 2007.
  •  Christopher PP. Safekeeping. Brown Medicine. 13(1):38-44, 2008.
  • Christopher PP, Philip NS. Finding medications for the uninsured: the pitfalls of prescribing samples. The American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal. 3(6), 2008. See it online.
  • Wall BW, Christopher PP. Restoring Trial Competency in the Developmentally Disabled. (submitted).

Presentations:

  • Christopher PP, Foti ME, Roy-Bujnowski K, Appelbaum PS. “Disparities Between the Readability of Consent Forms and Educational Levels of Potential Participants in Mental Health Research.” 11th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Services, Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, RI. April 13, 2006.
  • Christopher PP, Foti ME, Roy-Bujnowski K, Appelbaum PS. “Consent Form Readability and Educational Levels of Potential Study Subjects.” 58th Annual Meeting, Institute on Psychiatric Services, New York, NY. October 5, 2006.
  • Christopher PP, Foti ME, Roy-Bujnowski K, Appelbaum PS. “Consent Form Readability in             Mental Health Research.” 37th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Chicago, IL. October 26, 2006.
  • Wall BW, Christopher PP. “A Training Program for Restoration of Competency to Stand Trial for Defendants with Developmental Disabilities: A Retrospective Validation Study.” 12th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Services, Brown University
    Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, RI. April, 2007.
  • Christopher, PP.  On Suicide (online lecture) (2007): http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI_278/projects/Impactica/suicide/suicide1/suicide1.html
    http://www.brown.edu/Courses/BI_278/projects/Impactica/suicide/suicide2/suicide2.html
  • Wall BW, Christopher PP. “Restoring Trial Competency in the Developmentally Disabled.” 38th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Miami, FL. October 18, 2007.
  • Christopher PP, Boland RJ, Recupero PR, Phillips KA. “Psychiatry Residents’ Experience Performing Disability Evaluations. 39th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Seattle, WA. October 25, 2008.

Honors/awards:

  • First Prize, Psychiatry Residency Research Poster, 10th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Services, Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. April 2006.
  • Rappeport Fellow, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2008-2009.
  • Guest Editor, American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal, June 2009.

 

Brain Daly, M.D.

Projects:

  • Psychiatric Advance Directives: A State by State Review. Detailing the present state of psychiatric advance directives throughout the country.
  • Proposal to enact a statute enabling residents to fill out a psychiatric advance directive for the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
  • Psychiatric Advance Directives Model Statute – Details of the ideal PAD statute and form.
  • Assault of Mental Health Workers by Patients.  Prosecution and Law Enforcement Reaction. Workshop at the AAPL conference.

 

Kathryn Fleming-Ives:

Publications

  • Conroy M, Menard W, Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder in an adult inpatient setting. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2008 Jan-Feb;30(1):67-72 see it online

Posters/ Abstracts/Presentations

  • Conroy M, Menard W, Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder on a general inpatient adult psychiatric unit. I Ith Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences. Providence, RI: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2007: 17.
  • Conroy M, Menard W, Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder on a general inpatient adult psychiatric unit. American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA:APA, 2007:NR96.
  • Christopher PP, Fleming-Ives K, Recupero PR. It’s your call: Case-based learning in psychiatry and the law. 2nd Annual Teaching Symposium on Mental Health Sciences. Providence, RI: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2008.

Wendy Froelich, M.D.

Projects

  • "Bridging Gaps" - Defining barriers specific to Spanish-speaking families in order to improve healthcare provided in pediatric clinics

Publications

  • Case reports are in preparation on "Telemedicine: A case of international child advocacy" and "Behavioral and cognitive dysfunction in a patient with schizophrenia: A case of Wernicke-Korsakoff in disguise."

Posters/ Abstracts/Presentations

  • Pediatric Grand Rounds, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2006
  • Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2006
  • Poster and Presentation for the Dyson Award
  • Poster presentation, RI-AAP Child Advocacy Conference, 2006
  • AAP National Conference, 2006
  • Presentation at the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 2007
  • Workshop/presentation at the Northeast Pediatrics Advocacy Conference, 2007
  • Poster presentation at American Neuropsychiatric Association Conference, February 2007

 

Keelin Garvey:

Projects:

  • Psychiatric Advanced Directives project- working with multiple residents and attendings to create a model statute for psychiatric advanced directives. 

Publications:

  • Garvey K, Penn J, Campbell A, Esposito-Smythers C, Spirito A.   Contracting for Safety: Clinical Practice and Forensic Implications.  Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, (in press).
  • Recupero P, Price M, Garvey K, Daly B, Xavier S. A Review and Analysis of Case Law of Restraint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Treatment Settings. Under review. 
  • Garvey K, Kazim A, Derrick B, Boyar E, Ryan C.  Antipsychotic  Medication Use in the Rhode Island Prison System.  In preparation.

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Contracting for Safety with Adolescents: Is this an Empirically-Based Practice? Brown Research Day, April 2007
  • Contracting for Safety with Adolescents: Is this an Empirically-Based Practice? Annual Conference for the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Miami, Florida, October 2007.
  • Garvey K, Penn J. "Contracting for Safety" with Adolescents: Is this a Useful Practice? Alpert Medical School at Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior IIth Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences, Providence, RI, 2007.
  • Garvey K, Penn J. "Contracting for Safety" with Adolescents: Is this an Empirically-Based Practice? American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting. Miami, FL, 2007.
  • Garvey K, Penn J, Campbell A, Esposito-Smythers C, Spirito A. Contracting for Safety with Patients: Clinical Practice and Forensic Implications. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2008.
  • Garvey K, Kazim A, Ryan C, Derrick B, Boyar E. Antipsychotic Medication Use in the Rhode Island Prison System. Alpert Medical School of Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 12th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences, Providence, RI, March 27, 2008,
  • Garvey K, Kazim A, Ryan C, Derrick B, Boyar E. Antipsychotic Medication Use in the Rhode Island Prison System. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2008.
  • Philip N, Garvey K, Shaffer S, Phillips K. Does the Rubber Meet the Road? An Analysis of "Boot Camp" for Incoming Residents. Alpert Medical School at Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 2nd Annual Teaching Symposium on Mental Health Sciences.
  • Contracting for Safety: Clinical Practice and Forensic Implications. American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Annual Meeting in Seattle Washington, October 25, 2008.
  • “Restraint and Seclusion in Psychiatric Treatment Settings: A Review and Analysis of Case Law,” Alpert Medical School of Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 13th Annual Research Symposium of Mental Health Sciences, Providence, Rhode Island, March, 2009.
  • “Psychiatric Advanced Directives: A State by State Review.” Alpert Medical School of Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior 13th Annual  Research Symposium of Mental Health Sciences, Providence, Rhode Island, March, 2009.

Honors/Awards:

  • 2008 Rappeport Fellowship Award, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
  • First Prize Psychiatry Residency Research Poster, 12th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences,Alpert Medical School at Brown University, March 27,2008.

 

Natalie Lester:

Projects:

  • Factors influencing frequency and duration of restraints in the emergency room setting.
  • Psychiatric emergencies: alternatives to inpatient hospitalization

Publications:

  • Shelton R, Lester NA (2005).  Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Newer Antidepressants. In: Stein, D.J. Kupfer, D.J., Schatzberg, A.F. eds. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. pp. 263-280.
  • Lester NA, Kazim A. Frequency and Duration of Physical Restraints in Generalized vs. Specialized Emergency Room Settings. In preparation.
  • Boland R, Lester N, Williams E. How to write good multiple choice questions: a primer for the academic psychiatrist. Journal of Academic Psychiatry, in press.

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Boland R, Eisen J, Lester N.  Managing Changes in a Residency: From Theory to Practice (Workshop)  American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training Conference.  March 13, 2009. Tuscon, AZ.
  • Lester NA, Kazim A. Frequency and Duration of Physical Restraints in Generalized vs. Specialized Emergency Room Settings. Lifespan 17th Annual Hospital Research Celebration. Providence, RI, October 22, 2009.

Honors/Awards:

  • PRITE fellow, The American College of Psychiatrists, 2009
  • George Ginsberg Fellowship, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, 2009
  • Member, Editorial Board, Psychiatry Resident-in-Training Exam, The American College of Psychiatrists. 2009-present

 

Poonam Modha:

Projects:

  • Prevalence of body dysmorphic disorder in an inpatient setting

Publications:

  • Dave MJ, Miceli Kp, Modha P. Psychiatric Medicine:The Psychiatrist's Guide to the Treatment of Common Medical Illnesses. Lippincott,Williams and Wilkins, 2007. Get it from Amazon
  • Conroy M, Menard W. Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder in an adult inpatient setting. General Hospital Psychiatry, 2008;30:67-72. see it online

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Conroy M, Menard W. Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder on a general inpatient adult psychiatric unit. II th Annual Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences. Providence, RI: The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2007:17
  • Conroy M, Menard W. Fleming-Ives K, Modha P, Cerullo H, Phillips KA. Prevalence and clinical characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder on a general inpatient adult psychiatric unit. American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA:APA, 2007:NR96

 

Christine Montross:

Publications:

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Visiting Lecturer in Speaker Series, “Our Body: The Universe Within,” Orlando Science Center, Orlando, FL, July 2007
  • Reading and discussion of Body of Work, Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 2007
  • Visiting Author, Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, September 2007
  • Reading and discussion of Body of Work, Books on the Square, Providence, RI, September 2007
  • Reading and discussion of Body of Work, Narrative Medicine Grand Rounds, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, October 2007
  • Reading and discussion of Body of Work, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, October 2007
  • Reading from Body of Work, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2007
  • Medical Writing Seminar, University of North Carolina Medical School, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2007
  • Reading from Body of Work, Brown University Bookstore, Providence, RI, October 2007
  • Reading and discussion of Body of Work, Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, October 2007
  • “So You Want to Be a Doctor,” Brown Summer High School, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, July 2008
  • Summer@Brown 2008 Program Distinguished Speaker, Brown University, Providence, RI, July 2008
  • Reading from Body of Work, Island Books, Middletown, RI, July 2008
  • “Holding onto Humanity: An Invitation into Doctoring,” White Coat Ceremony Keynote Address, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, August 2008
  • "Your Drugs Take Away The Love: A Resident Psychiatrist's Discussion of Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment and Treatment,”1st Global Conference on Madness, Oxford, England, UK, September 2008
  • George F. Sheldon Lecture in Anatomy, History and Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, October 2008
  • Reading from Body of Work, North Carolina Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2008
  • "Dissection's Humanity: Healing the Living by Dismantling the Dead," lecture at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2008
  • Panelist, The Whole Physician, Program in Liberal Medical Education, Brown University, Providence, RI, October, 2008
  • Summer@Brown 2008 Program Distinguished Speaker.
  • National creative nonfiction judge for the 2008 Hopwood Awards at the University of Michigan.
  • Visiting Author, undergraduate Lifewriting class, Brown University English Department, Providence, RI, November 2008
  • Visiting Author, Physician as Communicator scholarly concentration meeting, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, November 2008
  • Reading from Body of Work and student discussion, Program of Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, January 2009
  • Panelist, Career Seminar Series: Exploring Psychiatry, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, January 2009
  • “Dissection and Doctoring: What the Dead Teach Us About Healing the Living,” Stanley Simon lecture, Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Providence, RI, February 2009
  • Stanley Simon lecture, February 2, 2009,Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
  •  “Becoming a Doctor without Losing Your Identity: An Invitation to Brown,” Keynote lecture, Alpert Medical School at Brown University Second Look Program, Providence, RI, May 2009


Media Appearances:

Honors/awards

  • The Washington Post’s best nonfiction books of 2007 for Body of Work.
  • National Creative Nonfiction Judge, 2008 Hopwood Awards, University of Michigan. 
  • Finalist, Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award, Emerging Author category, 2009

Aye Myint-U

Projects

  • Mayan Indians in Guatemala with untreated schizophrenia: examination of family functioning before and after treatment     

Honors/Awards:

  • American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education/Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholar (2008-Present); topic: "Mayan Indians in Guatemala with untreated schizophrenia: examination of family functioning before and after treatment”

 

Todd Peters.

Projects:

  • Performing family-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as part of the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Study for Children ages 5-8 (POTS Jr.) through the Pediatric Anxiety Research Center affiliated with Hasbro/Bradley Hospital.

Publications:

  • Pagonis V, Drake R, Morgan M, Peters T, Riddle C, Rollins K. Modeling forces on the human body. The Physics Teacher 1999; 37(8): 469-474.
  • Nakanishi T, Karp J, Tan M, Doyle LA, Peters T, Yang W, Wei D, Ross D. Quantitative analysis of Breast Cancer Resistance Protein and cellular resistance to flavopiridol in acute leukemia patients. Clinical Cancer Research 2003; 9: 3320-3328.
  • Peters TE, Parvin M, Petersen C, Faircloth VC, Levine RL. A case report of Wernicke's encephalopathy in a pediatric patient with anorexia nervosa - restricting type. Journal of Adolescent Health 2007; 40(4):376-383. •

Abstracts:

  • “A case report of Wernicke’s encephalopathy in a pediatric patient with anorexia nervosa - restricting type” Poster Presentation at Penn State Pediatric Research Day, June 2006

 

Noah Philip:

Selected Projects:

  • Philip NS, Mello K, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Patterns of quetiapine use in psychiatric inpatients: chart review
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Augmentation of antidepressants with atypical antipsychotics: literature review, developing CME article
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Whitely LB, Price LH.  Varenicline augmentation in depressed outpatient smokers: prospective, open-label study

 

Publications:

  • Philip NS, Mello K, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Patterns of quetiapine use in psychiatric inpatients: an examination of off-label use.  Ann Clin Psychiaty 2008;20(1):1-6
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Augmentation of antidepressants with atypical antipsychotics: a review of the current literature.  J Psychiatr Pract 2008;14(1):34-44 See the abstract online
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Using atypical antipsychotics to augment treatment of unipolar, nonpsychotic major depression: an evidence-based review. Directions in Psychiatry 2008;24:51-59
  • Christopher, PP and Philip NS.  Finding medications for the uninsured: pitfalls of prescribing samples.  Am J Psychiatry, Residents Journal 2008 [Epub]3:6 See it online.
  • Philip NS, Schaffer S, Banik DR, Johnson B, Boland R.  Supportive psychotherapy – a crash course for medical students (in press)   
  • Philip NS, Price LH, Tyrka AR, Carpenter LLC.  Varenicline augmentation in depressed outpatient smokers: an 8-week, open-label study. J Clin Psychiatry March 24,2009: e1-e6 See it online.
  • Philip NS, Tyrka AR, Carpenter LLC, Whitely L, Price LH. Varenicline augmentation in depressed smokers: an 8-week, open-label study. NCDEU Annual Meeting, National Institute of Mental Health NCDEU Annual Meeting, Hollywood, FL, 2009.
  • Comment in: Marlene F. Location, location, location. The role of place in career development.  J Clin Psychiatry 2009 70:1024-126.
  • Carpenter LL, Philip NS. Advances in neurostimulation for depression: electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation. Depression: Treatment and Strategies 2nd Edition, Schwartz and Peterson, eds, in press.

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Philip NS, Mello K, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Inpatient Use of Off-label use of quetiapine.   14th Annual Hospital Day Research Celebration.  Rhode Island Hospital, Providence RI, 2006
  • Philip NS, Mello K, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Off-label use of quetiapine: trends in current use.   Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Research Day, Providence RI, 2007
  • Philip NS, Mello K, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH. Off-label use of quetiapine in psychiatric inpatients. New Research, Young Investigator Section, American Psychiatric Association 160th Annual Meeting.  San Diego CA: 2007:NR36
  • Philip NS, Schaffer S, Banik DR, Johnson B.  Supportive psychotherapy – a crash course for medical students.  Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Teaching Day, Providence RI: 2007.
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Price LH.  Depression and suicidality in outpatients during varenicline augmentation: a preliminary report.  Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Research Day, Providence RI, 2008
  • Philip NS, Schaffer S, Banik DR, Johnson B, Boland R.  A Crash Course in Supportive Psychotherapy for Medical Students.  New Research, Young Investigator Section,   American Psychiatric Association 160th Annual Meeting.  Washington DC: 2008:NR2-067
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Whitely LB, Price LH.  Mood effects of varenicline: an 8-week, open-label augmentation study. Research Colloquium for Young Investigators.  American Psychiatric Association 161st Annual Meeting, Washington DC: 2008
  • Philip N, Garvey K, Shaffer S, Phillips K. Does the Rubber Meet the Road? An Analysis of "Boot Camp" for Incoming Residents. 2nd Annual Teaching Symposium on Mental Health Sciences, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Providence, RI, November 5th, 2008.
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Whitely LB, Price LH. Is varenicline an antidepressant?  Results from an 8-week, open-label trial. 16th Annual Research Celebration. Rhode Island Hospital, Providence RI, 2008
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Whitely LB, Price LH. Antidepressant effects of varenicline: an 8-week, open-label trial in depressed smokers. 13th Annual Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Research Symposium, Providence RI, 2009
  • Philip NS, Carpenter LL, Tyrka AR, Whitely LB, Price LH. Antidepressant effects of varenicline: an 8-week, open-label augmentation study. New Investigator Section, 49th Annual NCDEU Meeting, Hollywood FL, 2009

 

Honors/awards

  • Future Leaders in Psychiatry at the Breakers, Travel Fellowship, Emory University, 2006
  • Research Day Award, Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 2007
  • Member, Committee on Residency and Fellowship, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2008
  • Research Day Award, Brown Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, 2008
  • American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Workshop on Clinical Trials, Travel Fellowship, 2008
  • American Psychiatric Association, Research Colloquium for Young Investigators, 2008
  • Travel Fellowship, Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2009
  • Resident Research Award, American Psychiatric Association/Eli Lilly, 2009
  • Young Investigator Award, NCDEU, 2009
  • Ad-hoc reviewer, Academic Psychiatry  

 

Media

  • Atypicals for Resistant Depression Clinical Psychiatry News, November 2008.
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  • Busko M.  Quetiapine widely used off-label in single site study.  Medscape medical news, May 2007. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557216
  • Rowe A.  Is the smoking cessation drug chantix an antidepressant or a source of suicidal thoughts?  Wired News Science Blog. November 2007.  http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/chem-lab-is-cha.html
  • Rowe A.  Antismoking pill chantix may ease depression…or cause suicidal thoughts.  Wired News, Medicine and Technology.  March 2008. http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2008/03/chantix
  • Wired Science, November 21, 2007.
    http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/chem-lab-is-cha.html

 

Scott Shaffer:

Publications:

  • Philip NS, Shaffer S, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy- a Crash Course for Medical Students. Academic Psychiatry, in press

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Supportive Psychotherapy: A Crash Course for Medical Students, Ist Annual Teaching Symposium on Mental Health Sciences, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, September 26, 2007
  • Philip NS, Shaffer S, Banik D, Johnson B: Supportive Psychotherapy - a Crash Course for Medical Students. American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC, 2008
  • Philip NS, Garvey K, Shaffer S, Phillips K: Does the Rubber Meet the Road? An Analysis of “Boot Camp” for Incoming Residents. 2nd Annual Teaching Symposium on Mental Health Sciences, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Providence, RI, November 5th, 2008

 

Erica Tsai, M.D.

  • Tsai, E. Blue Mothers: Our Broken System for Perinatal Depression. Penn Medicine, in press.

 

Laura Whitely

Projects:

Brown University Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Team Member: currently working with Larry Brown, M.D. on projects that are funded by NIMH and NIDA investigating the relationship between psychopathology and HIV risk behaviors in adolescents

Publications:

Brown, L., Tolou-Shams, M., Whiteley, L. Youths’ HIV risk in the justice system: A critical but neglected issue. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47:845-846, 2008.

Brown, L., Whiteley, L. HIV/AIDS Among Youth. In American Psychiatric Association Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dulcan, M., ed., American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., in press.

Price, L., Whiteley, L. Effective pharmacotherapy for OCD in adults. US Psychiatry Review 2008, in press.

Philip, N., Carpenter, L., Tyrka, A., Whiteley, L., and Price, L. Varenicline augmentation in depressed smokers: An 8-week, open-label study (NCT00525837). Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, submitted.

Brown, L., Hadley, W., Stewart, A., Lescano, C., Whiteley, L., Donenberg, G., DiClemente, R., and Project STYLE Study Group. Psychiatric disorders and sexual risk among adolescents in mental health treatment. Psychiatric Services, submitted.

Brown, L., Whitely, L. Pregnancy during adolescence: Clinical challenges and opportunities. Invited paper for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, in preparation.

Presentations:

Tolou-Shams, M., Whiteley, L., Brown, L. Annual NIMH International Meeting of Families & HIV, “HIV Risk Among Juvenile Offenders: The Relationship Between Parental Distress and Parent - Child Communication,” July 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Whiteley, L., Brown, L., and Project STYLE Study Group. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Training Retreat, “The Association of MDD, PTSD, and GAD with Sexual Risk Behavior Among Girls,” December 2007, Chicago, Illinois.

Honors/awards:

Participant, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research Training Retreat, December 2007, Chicago, Illinois.

 

Matthew Willis, M.D., MPH

Posters/Abstracts/Presentations:

  • Maslow G, Froehlich W, Willis MD. The "Draw-Your-Illness Test” and Adaptation to Chronic Illness. New Research Abstracts, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2008 Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL: 2008.
  • Maslow G, Froehlich, W, Willis M, Neukirch J. Growing up with a Chronic Illness: Adaptation and Transition to Adulthood. Brown University Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds. Providence, RI, May 15, 2009.

Honors/Awards:

  • Best Resident Poster. Brown University Department of Psychiatry and
    Human Behavior Research Day. March 26, 2009.

 

Agustin G Yip

Projects:

  • Long-term follow-up  of patients undergoing gamma-knife ventral capsulotomy for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. 
  • Publications:
  • Kohn R, Yip AG, Mancebo MC. ‘Obsessive-compulsive disorder’ In: Birren J, Marshall V, Cole T, et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Age, Aging, and the Aged, 2nd edition. Academic Press, 2006.
  • Yip AG, Eisen JL, Rasmussen SA. ’Phenomenology of obsessive-compulsive disorder’ In: SteinDJ, Hollander E, Rothbaum BO (eds). American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Anxiety Disorders, 2nd edition. APPI (in press).

Presentations:

  • Yip AG, Noren G, Greenberg BD, Rasmussen SA. Five-year follow up of patients undergoing gamma-knife ventral capsulotomy for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder. American Psychiatric Association Colloquium for Junior Investigators 2007, San Diego CA.

Honors/awards:

  • Participant, Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators. American Psychiatric Association 2007 Annual Meeting. San Diego CA, May 2008.
  • Brown University Representative, Emory University Psychiatry
    Residents’ Symposium, September 2007.

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

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