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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program

Selected awards and honors, 2008–2010

 Hesham Hamoda

  • 2010 Donald Cohen Fellowship Award, International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions
  • 2010 DuPont-Warren Research Fellowship Award, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • 2010 Livingston Research Fellowship Award, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
  • 2009 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outstanding Resident Award
  • 2009 Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Fellowship Award 

Nina Graupera

  • 2010-2011 Harvard Catalyst Planning Grant 

Robert L. Kitts

  • 2008 American Academyof Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Creating Partnerships with Family and Youth: Implications for Clinical Practice Scholarship 

Peng Pang

  • 2009 American Psychiatric Association, Best Resident Research Project

Peer-reviewed manuscripts

  • Bellapravalu S, Zarrouf F, Zaldivar G, Sirbu C, Haider A, Nazha H, Patel T, Shaikh KR, Moore J, Griffith. The Effect of Body Mass Index on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and CPAP Compliance in West Virginia. Sleep. 2008: 31; A200.
     
  • Bosquet-Enlow M, Kitts RL, Wright, RJ. (Co-first authors) Maternal traumatic stress and child regulation: potential pathways to child health outcomes. Psychosomatic Medicine. In press.
     
  • Kitts RL. Barriers to Optimal Care between Physicians and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Adolescent Patients. Journal of Homosexuality 2010: 57;: 730-747.
     
  • Kitts RL, Christodolou J, Goldman SJ. Promoting Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Trainees Addressing Siloed Medical Education. Academic Psychiatry. In press.
     
  • Hamoda H,Osser D. The Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project at the Harvard South Shore Program: An Update on Psychotic Depression. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. 2008; 16(4): 235-247.
     
  • Hamoda H, Guild D, Gumlak S, Travers B, Gonzalez-Heydrich J. The Association between ADHD and Epilepsy in Pediatric Populations. Expert Rev. Neurotherapy 2009; 9: 1747-1754.
     
  • Hamoda H, Bauer M, DeMaso D, Sanders K, Mezzacappa E. A Competency-Based Model for Research Training during Psychiatry Residency. Harvard Review of Psychiatry. In press.
     
  • Hamoda H, Belfer M. Challenges in International Collaboration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. In press.
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Omigbodun OO, Bella TT. Assessment of need for a school-based mental health programmme in Nigeria: Perspectives of school administrators. International Review of Psychiatry 2008:20; 271–280.
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Bella TT, Omigbodun OO, Belfer M (2009) Teacher’s perspectives of mental health needs in Nigerian schools. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health 2009:2;147-156.
     
  • Nguyen  AD, Shenton ME., Levitt JJ. Olfactory Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: A Review of Neuroanatomy and Psychophysiological Measurements. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2010 18(5).
     
  • Shaikh KR, Zarrouf F, Zaldivar G, Sirbu C, Bellapravalu S, Haider A, Nazha H, Patel T, Moore J, Griffith PJ, Haider A. The Effect of Substance Use / Abuse on Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Compliance. Sleep, 2008: 31; A200.
     
  • Zahid MA, Ohaeri JU, Elshazli AS, Basiouny MA, Hamoda HM, Varghese R. Correlates of Quality of life in an Arab Schizophrenia Sample. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2009. [EPub ahead of print].
     
  • Zarrouf FA, Zaldivar G, Sirbu C, Bellapravalu S, Haider A, Shaikh KR, Nazha H, Taral P, Moore J, Griffith PJ. Early predictors of compliance in sleep apnea patients treated with continuous positive airway pressure. Sleep. 2008: 31; A202 .
     
  • Zarrouf, Zaldivar G, Sirbu C, Bellapravalu S, Nazha H, Patel T, Shaikh KR, Moore J, Griffith PJ. The Relationship Between Diabetes Mellitus and Obstructive Sleep Apnea and the Effect of Continues Positive Airway Pressure on HgA1c. Sleep. 2008: 31; A325-326.

Chapters and reviews

  • Bujoreanu IS, Ibeziako PI, DeMaso DR. Psychiatric Concerns in Pediatric Epilepsy (2010). Child Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic N America, 371–386.
     
  • DeMaso DR, Rao S, Hirshberg J, Ibeziako PI (2010). Heart disease. Shaw RJ, DeMaso DR, eds., Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Mental Health Consultation with Physically Ill Children. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc, 319-328.
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Bourne R, Shaw RJ, DeMaso DR (2010). Legal and forensic issues. Shaw RJ, DeMaso DR, eds., Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Mental Health Consultation with Physically Ill Children. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc, 47-62. 
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Omigbodun OO, Bella TT, Belfer M (2008), A Needs Assessment for Child Mental Health Programs in Primary Schools in Ibadan Nigeria: Executive Report for the Ministry of Education, Oyo State, Nigeria. 
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Shaw J, DeMaso DR. Psychosomatic illness. In Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme J, Schor N, Behrman RE (Eds.). Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics, 19th Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier, in press. 
     
  • Ryan CA, Gosselin G, DeMaso, DR. Tic and Movement Disorders. Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics, in press.

Research posters

  • Bosquet-Enlow M, Kitts RL, and Wright RJ; “How Cortisol May Inform the Study of Transmission of Risk from Mother to Child in Early Development”; Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Research Day, April 8, 2009. 
     
  • Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Luna L , Rao S, McClendon J, Rotella P, Waber D, Hamoda H, Boyer K, Faraone S, Whitney J, Guild D, Biederman J. Elevated Rates of ADHD in Mothers of Children with Co-Morbid ADHD and Epilepsy. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56th Annual Meeting. 2009. Honolulu, Hawai’i.
     
  • Hamoda H, Guild D, Gumlak S, Travers B, Gonzalez-Heydrich J. Association between ADHD and Epilepsy in Pediatric Populations. Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Research Day, March 24, 2010. 
     
  • Hamoda H, Bauer M, Sanders K, Mezzacappa E. Research Skills Development During Psychiatry Residency Training: A Competence-Based Approach. Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Research Day, April 8, 2009.
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Omigbodun OO, Bella TT, Belfer M A Needs Assessment for Child Mental Health Programs Primary Schools in Ibadan Nigeria: A qualitative study. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 54th Annual Conference, Boston, MA, USA, October 2008.
     
  • Ibeziako PI, Omigbodun OO, Bella TT, Belfer M A Needs Assessment for Child Mental Health Programs Primary Schools in Ibadan Nigeria: A qualitative study. International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Allied Professions Study Group, Abuja, Nigeria, October 2009.
     
  • Moura CMC, Souza THP, Ribeiro MV, Andrade GM. Effect of methylphenidate or reboxetine in locomotor activity, depression and anxiety in animal models of attention deficit induced by ethanol lesion. Federation of Experimental Biology Societies, 23rd Regional Meeting, Fortaleza, Brazil. 2008.
     
  • Nguyen AD: Olfactory Dysfunction in Schizophrenia and Brain Neuroimaging. Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Research Day April 8, 2009.  
     
  • Pang P, Hilfer a, Fine H, Shindman J, Peselow E, Solhkhah. Tai Chi Chuan as an alternative treatment for teenagers with mental illness: A 12-week controlled pilot study. American Psychiatric Association 163rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May 2010.
     
  • Pang P. The role of Tai Chi Chuan in improving the quality of life and reducing depression and anxiety: A meta-analysis of literature review and a cross-over study design. American Academyof Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56th Annual Meeting. 2009. Honolulu, Hawai’i.
     
  • Rashid A, Hashmi S, Connor D. Pilot study of Types of Aggression in Emotionally Disturbed Adolescent Females. ESCAP International Conference, Budapest, 2009.
     
  • Rashid A. Subtypes of Aggression and Callous-Unemotional Traits in Adolescent Females. Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry Research Day, April 8, 2009.
     
  • Rashid A, Hashmi S, Connor D. Pilot study of Types of Aggression in Emotionally Disturbed Adolescent Females in Residential Settings. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55th Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2008.
     
  • Ryan CA, Skotko BG, Munir KM. Down Syndrome: Postnatal Support and Delivery of Diagnosis, A Cross-Cultural Comparison Based on Mothers Surveyed, Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Research Day, April, 2007.
     
  • Sundaramoorthy K, Margaret Briggs-Gowan. The long-term effects of trauma on child psychopathology may be mediated by the quality of the maternal-child dyad. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55th Annual Meeting, Chicago 2008.

Presentations, symposia and workshops

  • Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Hamoda H, Luna L , Rao S, McClendon J, Rotella P, Waber D, Boyer K, Faraone S, Whitney J, Guild D, Biederman J. Elevated Rates of ADHD in Mothers of Children with Co-Morbid ADHD and Epilepsy. International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. 19th World Congress. 2010. Beijing, China.
     
  • Hamoda H and Belfer M. Challenges in International Collaboration in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Potential Solutions. International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. 19th World Congress. 2010. Beijing, China.
     
  • Ibeziako P and Belfer M. The interface of Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics across cultures. 19th World Congress of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists and Allied Professions, Beijing China, June 2010 [Symposium]
     
  • James PM, Ryan CA, Engle EC, Tang JR, Kaler SG, Berry, GT. Case report: Menke’s Disease Phenocopy in a Female with Normal ATP7A Coding Sequence. Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Annual Meeting, 2008.
     
  • Leibowitz S. Workshop Chairman: Sexual Minority Youth: Clinical Competencies and Training Needs for the 21st Century, American Psychiatric Association 163rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, May 2010.
     
  • Leibowitz S. Developing “Gender and Sexuality Competence” in Meeting the Training Needs of Sexual Minority Youth; Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, April 14, 2010.
     
  • Leibowitz S. Workshop Chairman: Sexual Minority Youth: Clinical Competencies and Training Needs for the 21st Century, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56th Annual Meeting, Honolulu, October 2009.