AACAP Pilot Research Awards for Attention Disorders and/or Learning Disabilities, Supported by The Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund
The following AACAP Pilot Research Awards, supported by The Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund, encourage junior faculty and child and adolescent psychiatry residents to pursue research careers by providing grants of $15,000 to support pilot research. The awards specifically focus on research in attention disorders and/or learning disabilities and are in memory of Elaine Schlosser Lewis.
The 2012 recipients and their projects:
Jeffrey Strawn, M.D.
University of Cincinnati
The Impact of Comorbid Anxiety on Attentional Processing in Adolescents with ADHD
Mentor: Melissa DelBello, M.D.
Chad Sylvester, M.D., Ph.D.
Washington University
Stimulus-Driven Orienting and the Ventral Attention Network in Children with Anxiety Disorders Versus ADHD
Mentor: Joan L. Luby, B.A., M.D.
The 2011 recipients and their projects:
David S. Hong, M.D.
Stanford University
Study of Neural Circuitry Underlying Visuospatial Deficits and Mathematics Learning Disorder in Turner Syndrome
Mentor: Allan Reiss, M.D.
Amanda K. Hutchison, M.D.
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Assessing Thought Disorder in 4 and 5 Year-Olds with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with and without Severe Emotional and Behavioral Dysregulation
Mentor: Randall Ross, M.D.
AACAP Pilot Research Awards for and Junior Faculty and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residents, Supported by Lilly USA, LLC
The following AACAP Pilot Research Awards, supported by Lilly USA, LLC, encourage junior faculty and child and adolescent psychiatry residents to pursue research careers by providing grants of $15,000 to support pilot research on child and adolescent mental health.
The 2012 recipients and their projects:
Jon P. Carlson, M.D.
Yale Child Study Center
Imaging Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors in the Psychosis Prodrome
Mentors: D. Cyril D'Souza, M.D., Scott W. Woods, M.D.
Jatinder M. Chawla, M.D.
North Shore- Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Differential Effects of Risperidone and Aripiprazole on Prolactin-Mediated Alterations in Sex Hormones, Sexual Functioning and Bone Turnover in Antipsychotic-Naive Adolescents
Mentor: Christoph Correll, M.D.
Aaron Krasner, M.D.
Columbia University
Revisiting Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) in a preterm low birthweight cohort at age 16 years: evidence for a distinct disorder?
Mentor: Agnes Whitaker, M.D.
Teresa Lim, M.D., M.Sc.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
A Pilot Neuroimaging Study of 22q13 Deletion Syndrome
Mentors: Alexander Kolevzon, M.D., Tng A. Wang, Ph.D.
Sunil Mehta, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA
The Role of Neurexin IV in Drosophila Neural Development
Mentors: S. Lawrence Zipursky, Ph.D., James McCracken, M.D.
Donna Roybal, M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
The effects of social stress on brain activation and inflammatory cytokines in youth with bipolar disorder
Mentor: Kiki D. Chang, M.D.
Amy M. Yule, M.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
The Impact of Exposure to Parental Substance Use Disorders (SUD) on SUD Risk in Growing-up Boys and Girls
Mentor: Timothy E. Wilens, M.D.
The 2011 recipients and their projects:
Arman Danielyan, M.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Quality of Life in Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder with Comorbid Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Role of Impaired Facial Emotion Processing and Social Cognition
Mentor: Melissa DelBello, M.D.
Eve Khlyavich Freidl, M.D.
Columbia and Cornell Universities
Effect of Obesity Susceptibility Gene FTO on Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain
Mentor: B. Timothy Walsh, M.D.
Christopher Hammond, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center
Stress, Risk-taking, and Hedonically-driven Behaviors in Adolescence
Mentors: Linda Mayes, M.D., Marc Potenza, M.D., Ph.D.
Brooks Keeshin, M.D.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Neuroendocrine Markers of PTSD Following Recent Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adolescent Girls
Mentor: Frank Putnam, M.D.
Suzan J. Song, M.D., M.P.H.
Stanford University
Effects of Experiences of Perpetrators of Violence on Parenting and their Children's Mental Health
Mentors: Ruth O'Hara, Ph.D., Carl Feinstein, M.D.
Rabindra R. Tambyraja, M.D.
University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry
Longitudinal Changes in Network Connectivity in Early-Onset Schizophrenia and Ultra-High Risk Populations
Mentors: Kelvin Lim, M.D., Sanjiv Kumra, M.D.
Kyle Williams, M.D.
Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center
Novel Models of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in Animals: Microglia and the Neurophysiology of Compulsive Behavior
Mentor: Chris Pittenger, M.D., Ph.D.
For additional information about the AACAP Pilot Research Awards, please contact Celia Johnson, AACAP Research and Training Coordinator at cjohnson@aacap.org or at 202-587-9664.
