Failure to Thrive Disorder
Nancy Winters, M.D., is a co-investigator in a new collaborative study with Pediatric Endocrinology and General Pediatrics at OHSU. The study is being conducted in the Clinical Research Center at OHSU and seeks to better understand Failure to Thrive Disorder in infants and children.

Sleep Disturbances in Totally Blind Children
Kyle Johnson, M.D., is conducting a study of totally blind children with circadian rhythm (body clock) disturbances. The study seeks to understand more about circadian rhythms and sleep patterns in blind children in order to develop effective treatments in the future.

Prevalence of Behavioral and Emotional
Disturbance in Hospitalized Children
Robert McKelvey, M.D., M.D., has begun a research project in conjunction with Doernbecher Children's Hospital. The study seeks to identify behavioral and emotional problems among children (and their families) admitted to the hospital. A second goal of the project is to understand more about the consult rate to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Data gathered from the study will be analyzed and used to improve the consultation service in the future.

Adaptation of Former Political Prisoners
Robert McKelvey, M.D. is conducting a longitudinal study of the long-term adaptation of Vietnamese former political prisoners and their families.

Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders among Vietnamese Children
Robert McKelvey, M.D. is comparing the mental health of Vietnamese children living in Perth, Australia, with the incidence of psychiatric disorders among Vietnamese children living in Hanoi.

Transferability of Didactic Instruction
Robert McKelvey, M.D. is studying the transferability of didactic instruction in the diagnosis and treatment of adolescent depression and suicide to the clinical setting in primary care.

Mental Health Needs of the Families of Bone Marrow
Transplant Patients
Robert McKelvey, M.D. is researching the impact of bone marrow transplants in children on the mental health needs of their parents and families.

Zubrick SA, Kurinczuk JJ, McDermott B, McKelvey RS, Silburn S, Davies LC. Fetal Growth and Subsequent Mental Health Problems in Children Ages 4 to 13. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 42:14-20, 2000.

McKelvey RS, The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam, University of Washington Press, 1999.

McKelvey RS, Webb JA, Baldassar L, Robinson S, Riley G. Ineffective sexual health communication among medical and nursing students. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 33: 260-266, 1999.

McKelvey RS, Davies L, Sang DL, Pickering K, Tu HC. Problems and competencies among children and adolescents in Hanoi. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:731-737, 1999.

McKelvey RS, Baldassar L, Sang DL, Roberts L. Vietnamese parental perceptions of child and adolescent mental illness. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:1302-1309, 1999.

Cheng K and Myers K. Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. Advanced Abnormal Psychology (2nd Ed.), M Hersen, VB Van Hasselt, Eds, Plenum Press, in press.

Myers K and Johnson K. Prepubertal bipolar disorder. The Doernbecher Journal 5:19-25, 1999.

Novins DK, Beals J, Sack WH, Mason SM. Recognized but unmet need for alcohol, drug and mental health services among Northern Plains American Indian adolescents. Journal of Hospital and Community Psychiatry, in press.

Sack WH, Him C, Dickason D. Twelve-year follow-up study of Khmer youths who suffered massive war trauma as children. J of the Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:9, 1173-1179.

Winters N, Feeding disorder of infancy and early childhood: a child psychiatrist's perspective. The Doernbecher Journal 4:1, 18-20, 1998.

Winters N, Pumariega A, Diamond J, Dominguez E, Fallon T, Grimes K, Hanson G, Heffron W, Klaehn R, Lourie I, Marx L, Solnit A, Thurber D, Best Principles for Measuring Outcomes in Managed Care Medicaid Mental Health Programs, Am Acad Child and Adolesc Psychiatry monograph, 1999.

Winters N and Pumariega A, Systems of care for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance. The Clinical Assessment of Children and Youth Behavior: Interfacing Intervention with Assessment. B Vance and A Pumariega, Eds, John Wiley & Sons, in press.

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