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(Yes, this does happen and is the ultimate goal.)
Our students typically finish the program in five years if they enter with a B.A. or B.S. or four years if they enter with an M.A. What happens next after students graduate? The following is a typical sequence:
Internship
Students have typically taken an internship at a major pediatric center such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Boston Children’s Hospital, Brown University School of Medicine, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, etc. Most of our students generally compete for and get their first choice, some have been selected for their second choice.
Postdoctoral Fellowship
Following internship, students typically take a postdoctoral fellowship to develop their research skills, clinical experiences, and professional track record in order to compete successfully for a faculty position. Students have obtained their first choice of postdoctoral fellowships at programs such as Brown University School of Medicine, National Jewish Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
Faculty Positions
Our former students are now on faculty at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Brown University School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, National Jewish Hospital, Georgetown University, and University of Oregon Health Sciences Center. In these positions, they are conducting research, teaching students, and seeing patients, and otherwise contribute to the field. Some former students have career development awards for their research, have federally funded research grants, are on the editorial boards of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology and the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, and are officers in the Society of Pediatric Psychology.
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Contact information for Former Students
For those of you who are interested in contacting former graduates of the program who are in various phases of career development to obtain their perspectives on our program and how it has helped to facilitate development, here is information from a number of students. Please feel free to contact them.
If you are interested in contacting students who are currently enrolled in the program, please click here.
Jane Robinson, Ph.D.
Email address: robinsonj@njc.org
Affiliation: University of Colorado Health Science Center and National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado
Activities: Providing psychological services to patients and families attending the medical pediatric day treatment program where they come for two weeks of evaluation, education and intervention. The majority of children have a diagnosis of asthma, allergies, immune deficiency, and/or atopic dermatitis. I am co director of the Center for Stress and Anxiety and lead multifamily groups that use cognitive behavioral intervention strategies. I am currently conducting research in the area of stress and coping among children and families living with food allergies. My other research is in the area of outcome studies and the efficacy of multifamily group intervention and reduction in anxiety. In addition to these activities I serve on the National Jewish Internal Review Board.
Jack H. Nassau, Ph.D.
Email: Jnassau@Lifespan.org
Academic Appointment: Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School
Clinical Interests: Pain Management, Relaxation Training/Biofeedback, Asthma
Research Interests: Stress and Immunity in Asthma, Symptom Perception in Asthma
Tonya Palermo, Ph.D.
Email: palermot@ohsu.edu
Title and Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-Operative Medicine, Director, Behavioral Program, Pediatric Pain Management Center , Oregon Health & Sciences University and Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
Current research projects: parent-adolescent interactions: relationship to headache pain and disability, web-based cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronic pain in children, behavioral intervention for children with autism undergoing painful procedures, impact of sex hormones on pain and disability in pubertal children with chronic pain, and sleep disturbances in children with disease-related pain.
Clinical activities include: Providing psychological evaluation and treatment to patients in the Pediatric Chronic Pain Clinic, a multidisciplinary clinic serving children and adolescents who suffer from chronic pain related to medical conditions, neuropathic pain, headaches, abdominal pain, and myofascial pain.
Kristin Riekert, Ph.D.
E-mail: krieker1@jhem.jhmi.edu
Current activities: Principal Investigator: Awarded a K23 from NHLBI titled "Asthma Communication & Adherence In Inner-City Children"-- The purpose of this study is to (1) design, using parent and physician focus groups, a brief tool (The Pediatric Asthma Communication Tool-PACT) to facilitate family and physician asthma
communication for use in an inner-city, pediatric asthma population and (2) conduct a pilot study of inner-city children with high asthma morbidity to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief caregiver-focused communication
intervention, incorporating the PACT, on family-physician communication and medication adherence.
Natalie Walders, Ph.D.
Email: waldersn@njc.org
Affiliation: Instructor/Fellow Division of Psychosocial Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Department of Psychiatry The Children's Hospital, and Department of Psychiatry University of Colorado Health Sciences Denver
Current Activities: Developmental Psychobiology Research Fellowship participant. Conducting research in the area of pediatric respiratory disease. Clinical work in Metabolic Syndrome, Childhood Obesity and Type II Diabetes
Chantelle Hart, Ph.D.
Email: Chantelle_Hart@brown.edu
Affiliation: Child & Family Psychiatry
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Medical School
593 Eddy Street
Providence , RI 02903
Position/Activities:T32 Postdoctoral Fellow (research focus: pediatric obesity/weight management research)
Erika E. Swift, Ph.D.
Email: esb23@georgetown.edu
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor
Research Division - Department of Psychiatry
Georgetown University
508 Kober-Cogan Hall
3800 Reservoir Rd, NW
Washington , DC 20007
(o) 202-687-6528
Carolyn E. Landis, Ph.D.
Email: cievers@aol.com
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics and Psychology at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, research supervisor and mentor for pediatric psychology students.
Current Interests: Dr. Landis' interests are in child health promotion through the assessment of child, parent, and family factors as they relate to 1) adherence to treatments for children with chronic conditions (phenylketonuria, type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, Prader-Willi Syndrome) and 2) adoption and maintenance of healthy lifestyle practices. She has developed a multi-method, multi-source protocol which includes videotaped family mealtimes and home food storage observations as well as parent and child semi-structured interviews. Dr. Landis is currently designing and testing an intervention program for the prevention of obesity among very young children (ages 3 to 6).
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