Faculty & Planning Committee

Course Director

• Sharon Cain, MD, Clinical Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

Faculty

• Boris Birmaher, MD, Endowed Chair in Early Onset Bipolar Disease, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa.
• Edward R. Christophersen, PhD, ABPP, FAAP (Hon), Board Certified Clinical Psychologist, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics Specialty Center, Overland Park, Kan.
• Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Behavioral Pediatrics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
• Anthony Spirito, PhD, ABPP, Professor & Director, Division of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, R.I.

Planning Committee

• James R. (Bob) Batterson, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
• Ed Christophersen, PhD, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
• Linda Laybourne Housh, LMSW, LCSW, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
• Michael Nicoski, KVC Behavioral HealthCare, Inc., Olathe, Kan.

University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

• Frank Barth, DO, Child Psychiatry
• Sharon Cain, MD, Child Psychiatry
• Brenda Chezek, BA, Continuing Education
• Kate Crenshaw, RNC, Nurse Case Manager, University of Kansas Hospital
• Mary Gambino, RN, PhD, University of Kansas School of Nursing
• Jessica Hellings, MD, Child Psychiatry
• Poonam Khanna, DO, Child Psychiatry
• Marilyn Logan, RN, Child Psychiatry
• Eve-Lynn Nelson, PhD, Behavioral Pediatrics
• Michael C. Roberts, PhD, Clinical Child Psychology Program
• Susan Sharp, DO, Child Psychiatry
• Teri Smith, PhD, Child Psychiatry

Top of Page