Results for Adolescents

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Dr. Ford's research focuses on improving adolescent health and addresses issues of adolescent access to high quality health care, adolescent patient-physician communication, and adolescent privacy concerns.

E-mail:

fordc [at] chop.edu

Nadia L. Dowshen, MD, MSHP

Dr. Dowshen focuses on improving the health outcomes for adolescent and young adults (AYA) living with or at high risk for contracting HIV/AIDS and improving access and quality of care for gender expansive and transgender children and adolescents. She is particularly interested in developing and testing digital health interventions to reach, engage, and retain AYA in care.

E-mail:

dowshenn [at] chop.edu

Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd

Dr. Ginsburg’s research focuses on facilitating youth to develop their own solutions to social problems and to teach clinicians how to better serve them. His current focus is on translating the best of what is known from research and practice into practical approaches parents, professionals, and communities can use to build resilience.

E-mail:

ginsburg [at] chop.edu

Wanjiku F.M. Njoroge, MD

Dr. Njoroge’s research focuses on prevention, promotion, and early intervention, highlighting the intersection of culture/race/ethnicity on infant and parent psychosocial domains.

E-mail:

njorogew [at] chop.edu

Rebecka Peebles, MD

Dr. Peebles’ research interests focus on the health outcomes of disordered eating in adolescents of diverse weight ranges, and how the Internet can be used as a vector to both help and harm young people as they try to approach a healthy weight.

E-mail:

peeblesr [at] chop.edu

Jason D. Jones, PhD

Dr. Jones is a psychological scientist with interests that lie at the intersection of developmental psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and pediatrics. His research focuses on the risk, identification, and prevention of adolescent depression and suicide.

E-mail:

jonesjd [at] chop.edu

Lisa A. Schwartz, PhD

Dr. Schwartz's research focuses on behavioral and psychosocial aspects of cancer and its treatment in adolescents and young adults (AYAs), a group of patients with unique medical and psychosocial challenges. Most of her current studies aim to understand and improve self-management among AYAs.

E-mail:

schwartzl [at] chop.edu

Tami D. Benton, MD

Dr. Benton's research focuses primarily on pediatric mood and anxiety disorders, sickle cell disease and psychiatric conditions, HIV and psychiatric conditions, neuroimmunology and mood disorders, health services research, eating disorders, and ethnically diverse children.

E-mail:

bentont [at] chop.edu

Rachel K. Myers, PhD, MS

Dr. Myers' research focuses on studies related to pediatric and adolescent injury prevention.

E-mail:

myersr [at] chop.edu

Jerome H. Taylor, MD

Dr. Taylor's translational and clinical research program focuses on preventing disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features. He is particularly interested in the roles that oxidative stress and neuroinflammation play in psychosis symptom progression in youth.

E-mail:

taylorj14 [at] chop.edu