CHADD Announces New Officers, Board Members, Professional Advisors
LANDOVER, Md., July 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CHADD, the nation’s largest family-based organization serving those affected by attention- deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD), announced a new slate of members to its board of directors and professional advisory board.
Marie Paxson, the current coordinator of Chester County CHADD, Pennsylvania, is the new president-elect of CHADD and will assume the role of president in a year. She is joined by Board Secretary Brenda Johnson, LCSW, and Finance Committee Chair Carter McDowell, LL.M.
Newly elected board members are Barbara Hawkins, Suzanne Vogel-Scibilia, M.D. and McDowell, LL.M. All three are parents of children with AD/HD.
Elected to the Professional Advisory Board are Rahn Bailey, M.D., F.A.P.A., Jeffrey Halperin, Ph.D., Adelaide Robb, M.D., Ann Schulte, Ph.D., Martin Stein, M.D., and Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D.
“CHADD’s leadership is very excited to have Marie Paxson prepared to take the helm of our board of directors,” current CHADD Board President Ann Teeter Ellison, Ed.D., said. “She brings experience and perspective that will benefit our members.”
“We are very pleased with the incoming members to the board of directors and the professional advisory board,” CHADD CEO E. Clarke Ross said. “These are people dedicated to our members and to creating a social movement to better the lives of people affected by AD/HD.”
The CHADD National Board of Directors is a select group of individuals from a variety of backgrounds, bound by their shared interests in educating and advocating for AD/HD. They are responsible for setting policy and overseeing the organization’s general well-being. The board consists of professionals in medicine, law, education and psychology, as well as other related fields. Almost all board members are either individuals with AD/HD or family members of persons with AD/HD.
Paxson runs three CHADD support groups and serves on the national membership committee. She has testified at hearings held by the U.S. Department of Education to determine the best methods for implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and has presented at CHADD’s annual international conference. She is the mother of children with AD/HD and co-occurring disorders.
Johnson is a licensed clinical social worker in Tampa, Fla., and a consulting project director for CHADD. She has developed a manual to assist CHADD in outreach techniques and has assisted 10 communities to reach more than 2,000 families in underserved communities during a three year period. She provides technical support to local chapter coordinators in an effort to conduct community forums throughout the United States. Johnson chairs the CHADD work group on Cultural and Community Outreach.
McDowell is the current chief legislative counsel for the American Bankers Association and general counsel of the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade. He is the former chief counsel and policy advisor for the Committee on Financial Services for the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He has previously served on CHADD’s Public Policy Committee.
Hawkins is chair of the Children’s Mental Health Conference in Baltimore, Md., and former coordinator of CHADD of Greater Baltimore. She presently is a member of CHADD’s National Finance Committee and the CHADD of Baltimore Advisory Board. She is a recipient of the CHADD Volunteer of the Year Award. Hawkins is assistant dean of Villa Julia College in Stevenson, Md.
Vogel-Scibilia is a practicing clinical psychiatrist. She founded and operates an independent mental health clinic in Western Pennsylvania. She is a clinical assistant professor at Western Psychiatric Institute and serves on the faculty of two community hospitals. Vogel-Scibilia is a consultant for psychopharmacology projects at the National Institute of Mental Health. As well as being chair of The Child-Adolescent Policy Subcommittee, she oversees projects involving support and education for young families. She established a Roman Catholic mental health nonprofit organization that provides seed money for programs and undertakes projects in the United States. Vogel-Scibilia resides in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Jim, and their five children. Vogel-Scibilia is the outgoing national president of NAMI — National Alliance on Mental Illness.
CHADD is at the forefront of publishing and disseminating the most current scientifically based and authoritative information about AD/HD to members and professionals in the areas of medicine, psychology, education, law and other professions. The members of CHADD’s Professional Advisory Board are experts in these and related fields. They play an integral part in keeping the organization abreast of the latest developments regarding all aspects of AD/HD, including research into cause and treatments, behavior management, employment, insurance, co-existing conditions and other issues surrounding AD/HD. All CHADD statements on the science of AD/HD are the consensus product of the PAB.
Bailey is the former chair of the National Medical Association’s (NMA) on Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. He is a dual-certified forensic psychiatrist. Bailey has served as tenure-track professor on the medical faculty of Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He has clinical appointments at Tulane and Baylor Colleges of Medicine. Bailey has also served as an Associate Professor at University of Alabama-Birmingham. Currently, Bailey is director of the Program of Law and Psychiatry at the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. In addition, he is the chairperson for the Katrina Response Effort of the NMA. In that capacity, he leads teams of physicians in treating the mental health needs of those displaced by the hurricanes. Bailey served as a faculty member at the CHADD-Congressional Black Caucus Congressional briefing on AD/HD.
Halperin is a professor in the psychology department at Queens College of the City of New York. He focuses on Developmental Neuropsychology, AD/HD and Developmental Psychopathology in his research and courses. He has been principal investigator of numerous studies about AD/HD and learning disabilities, many federally funded by the National Institutes of Health. He has previously received the William T. Grant Foundation Faculty Scholar’s Award and the Queen’s College Presidential Research Award.
Robb is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with practices at the National Children’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., and the Children’s Outpatient Center in Fairfax, Va. She received a medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was awarded a fellowship with the National Institute of Mental Health, with specialties in Bipolar Disorder and Psychopharmacology. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist with a specialty in psychopharmacology, Robb is extremely knowledgeable about AD/HD medications and treats many children and adolescents with AD/HD. She is well versed on medication management, medication trials and studies. She has been very committed to educating pediatricians and primary care providers about psychiatric medications and issues, leading training institutes for these audiences at American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s annual conference and in other venues.
Schulte currently is a professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University. Prior to coming to North Carolina State in 1994, she was employed at Duke University Medical Center as a clinician in the Attention Disorders Program and a clinical supervisor on the National Institute of Mental Health’s Multimodal Treatment of AD/HD study. Schulte’s research interests center on improving the quality of services and educational outcomes for children with learning disorders. Within that area, her interests range from school responses to children with reading difficulties, to consultation, to the inclusion of children with disabilities in high stakes testing programs. She serves or has served on the editorial boards of School Psychology Review, Journal of School Psychology, Journal of Learning Disabilities, and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, as well as served as associate editor of the School Psychology Quarterly.
Stein received his pediatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. During the past 25 years, Stein has been a clinician and educator in the Department of General Pediatrics and the University of California School Of Medicine. He directed the Division of General Pediatrics and the faculty practice. While serving as the recent past chair of the AAP Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, he edited the Academy’s Guidelines for Health Supervision III. His major academic interest has been the development of methods to incorporate concepts about child development and behavioral pediatrics into educational models and practice of primary care pediatrics. He co-authored the book, Encounters with Children — Pediatric Behavior and Development and is the section editor for “challenging cases” in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
Semrud-Clikeman, a professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Michigan State University, has expertise in the areas of neuropsychological basis of AD/HD, co-occurring disorders and interventions for childhood psychiatric disorders. She has been presenting at CHADD conferences for the past eight years. She has authored numerous articles on AD/HD for general and professional publications. Semrud-Clikeman graduated from the University of Georgia with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with specialties in neuropsychology and child psychopathology. She completed her internship and post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and received a training grant from NIMH to complete studies in neuroimaging in children with AD/HD. She has received funding from NIH for imaging studies with children with AD/HD on and off stimulant medication. Her current research interests include imaging studies of children with AD/HD studying response to success and failure at tasks as well as an understanding of children with social competence disorders and their processing of social interactions.
With 14,000 members and 200 chapters nationwide, CHADD is the nation’s largest family-based organizations serving people affected by AD/HD.
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