ADHD in Preschool Children
Assessment and Treatment
Edited by Jaswinder Ghuman and Harinder Ghuman
Author Information
Jaswinder K. Ghuman, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, and Associate Medical Director at Community Care Behavioral Health, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. She has 25 years clinical, research and teaching experience in evaluating and treating preschool children with mental health problems including ADHD and developmental disorders. She developed and directed the Infant and Preschool Psychiatry Clinic both at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland and at the University of Arizona Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program. Dr. J. Ghuman was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Maryland Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. She participated in the NIMH-sponsored Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine site. She developed the Ghuman-Folstein Screen for Social Interaction to screen for autism in at-risk preschoolers. She has authored and co-authored 55 publications.
Harinder S. Ghuman, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, and in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. He has over 30 years of clinical, research, teaching and administrative experience in the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry. He has held various administrative positions including Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Program Director for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training at the University of Arizona (2003-2013), Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Walter P Carter Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland (1994-2002), and Senior Psychiatrist/Service Chief, The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospital, Towson, Maryland (1982-1993). Dr. H. Ghuman is a Distinguished Life Fellow of APA and Fellow of AACAP. He has written number of scientific articles and book chapters and co-edited three books titled, Handbook of Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment, Handbook of Child and Adolescent Outpatient, Day Treatment and Community Psychiatry, and Providing Mental Health Services to Youth Where They Are.
Contributors:
Regina Bussing, M.D., M.S.H.S.
Professor of Psychiatry
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Harinder S. Ghuman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Jaswinder K. Ghuman, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Director, Infant and Preschool Clinic
Department of Psychiatry
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Elizabeth Hurt, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Nisonger Center
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Nicholas Lofthouse, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
Mark Mahone, Ph.D., ABPP
Director of Neuropsychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Desiree Murray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Social Science Research Institute
Department of Psychiatry and Medical Center
Duke University, Durham, NC
Alison Pritchard, Ph.D., ABPP
Program Director, Neuropsychology Research Lab
Kennedy Krieger Institute
Instructor in Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Jamila Reid, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Sydney Rice, M.D., MS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
Mark Stein, Ph.D., ABPP
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Institute of Juvenile Research
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Carolyn Webster- Stratton, M.S., M.P. H., Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
Founding Director, the Parenting Clinic
University of Washington School of Nursing, Seattle, WA
Margaret Danielle Weiss M.D., Ph.D., FRCP
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of British Columbia
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada