Name of Program:

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics — Hasbro Children's/Rhode Island Hospital (Affiliated with the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, Women and Infants' Hospital, Memorial Hospital of RI and Bradley Hospital)

Program Director:

Pamela High, MD

Contact Person:

Pamela High, MD
Address: 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903
Phone: 401-444-5440
FAX: 401-444-8488
E-mail: and Renee Mendozzi

Faculty:

Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics:

Pamela C. High, MD
Yvette Yatchmink, MD, PhD
Gisela Porras, MD
Bonnie Stephens, MD - and Neonatology at Women and Infants' Hospital
Viren D'Sa MD at Memorial Hospital of RI
Judith Owens, MD - and Sleep Medicine

Child and Family Psychiatrists:

Thomas Roesler, MD
Michelle Rickerby, MD

Pediatric Generalists:

Diane DerMarderosian, MD and Eating Disorders Specialist
Heather Chapman, MD
Robert Burke, MD

Psychologists:

Jack Nassau, PhD
Lucia Fratantaro, PhD
Barbara Kao, PhD
Barry Lester, PhD at the Brown Center for Children
Stephen Sheinkopf PhD at the Brown Center for Children

Child Neurology and Pediatric Rehabilitation:

Karen Kerman, MD

Genetics and Metabolism:

Diane Abuelo, MD
Natasha Shur, MD
Chanika Phornphatkuhl MD - metabolic geneticist

Child Abuse Medicine:

Carole Jenny, MD MBA
Christine Barron, MD
Amy Goldberg, MD

Parent Consultants:

Lisa Landry, JD
Michelle Murray
Roberta Zimmerman
John Susa, PhD

Number of fellows:

5

MCHB Funding Years:

1997-2003 and 2008-2014

RRC Accreditation Year:

2003 through 2014

Goals and Objectives for DBP Fellowship Education:

The goal of this fellowship program is to prepare post doctoral fellows in developmental and behavioral pediatrics for teaching, patient care, research and community leadership roles.

At the completion of three years of fellowship training, each fellow will:

• Demonstrate a broad and in depth understanding of normal child development, abnormal child development, and children with special health care needs.
• Demonstrate competence in elucidating developmental history and evidence of disability through interactions with parents and children.
• Demonstrate competence in administering developmental, behavioral, and psychosocial screening techniques.
• Demonstrate competence in administration of common psychosocial, developmental, behavioral, functional and neuropsychiatric assessment tools used by developmental and behavioral pediatricians.
• Demonstrate competence in the diagnosis and management of a wide range of developmental and behavioral problems experienced by children from birth through adolescence.
• Demonstrate competence in behavioral counseling for a wide range of behavioral disorders.
• Demonstrate skill in collaborative care and management of children with developmental disabilities or special needs.
• Demonstrate knowledge regarding family structure, adoption, foster care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of children at risk, including those in poverty, from fragmented families, and victims of abuse or neglect.
• Exhibit a working knowledge of federal, state and local community resources available to support families and foster the development of children.
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate with policy and governmental agencies as a consultant and child advocate.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of research methods used in developmental and behavioral pediatrics.
• Complete a scholarly project in developmental-behavioral pediatrics, present it at a national meeting and submit it for publication,
• Demonstrate competence in teaching the concepts of behavioral and developmental pediatrics in multiple settings.

This fellowship provides of the broad variety of clinical experiences in diverse settings based in 4 hospitals and in the community. Fellows can be at different levels of competence and confidence at different times in their training, which likely reflects their experience before and during training in a specific area. When fellows have mastered an aspect of DBP, we try to find ways for them to share their knowledge with others, with student and residents and fellows at lower levels. By the conclusion of their training we want them to be independent in patient management areas, skilled in working in interdisciplinary teams, confident teaching others this knowledge and these skills and competent in implementing program evaluation and independent research.