Electroconvulsive Therapy in Children and Adolescents
Edited by Neera Ghaziuddin and Garry Walter
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Edited by Neera Ghaziuddin, Associate Professor and Director of Child and Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry, University of Michigan, USA, and Garry Walter, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Sydney, Australia
Neera Ghaziuddin, MD, MRCPsych is Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, appointed to the Faculty in 1992. She directs the Treatment Resistant Disorder clinic and trains future generations of child psychiatrists about the use of electroconvulsive therapy in youth. She has published extensively about ECT and adolescent mood disorders. She is the primary author of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Practice Parameters for the use of ECT, published in 2004. In 2002 she received the ECT Investigator Award for the paper titled, "The use of electroconvulsive therapy in minors: experience, attitudes of child psychiatrists and psychologists."
Garry Walter MD, PhD is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Sydney and Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Northern Sydney Local Health District, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. A child and adolescent psychiatrist, in 2002 he completed a doctorate on ECT in young people. He is the long-standing Editor of Australasian Psychiatry, International Editor-at-Large of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a member of several other Editorial Boards, including for over a decade the Journal of ECT. He has published over 300 papers and received many prestigious research prizes, including for his studies on ECT, other psychiatric treatments and stigma. In 2012 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia by the country's Governor-General for service to medicine in the fields of adolescent mental health, medical education and publishing.
Contributors:
Bernard Biermann, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Child and Adolescent Inpatient Unit
University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Yuval Bloch, MD
Director, Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic
Shalvata Mental Health Center
Lecturer in Psychiatry
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
William de Carvalho, MD
Director, ECT Department
Maison de Santé de Bellevue
Meudon, France
David Cohen, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Head, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière
Paris, France
Angèle Consoli, MD, PhD
Director, Centre for Psychiatric Rare Diseases
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière
Paris, France
Dirk M. Dhossche, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Medical Director of the Child Psychiatric Unit
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Max Fink, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Long Island, NY, USA
Daniel E. Gih, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Medical Director, Michigan Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Polly Gipson, MA, PhD
Clinical Psychologist
University Centre for the Child and the Family
Supervising Faculty and Research Investigator
University of Michigan Hospital and Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Neera Ghaziuddin, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Treatment Resistant Disorders, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Hospital and Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Elise Hodges, MA, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Associate Clinical Director, Neuropsychology Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems
Ann Arbor, USA
Daniel F. Maixner, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, ECT Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Hospital and Health Systems
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Andrew McDonald, B Med
Director of Clinical Services, Mental Health
Sydney Local Health District
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Joseph M Rey, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Notre Dame School of Medicine
Honorary Professor
Discipline of Psychiatry, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Michael Robertson, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Edward Shorter, PhD, FRSC
Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Daniel Stein, MD
Director, Pediatric Psychosomatic Department
Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital
The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer
affiliated with the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Emma Taylor, MB ChB
Consultant Anaesthetist
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
South Hampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Lee E. Wachtel, MD
Medical Director, Neurobehavioral Unit, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Garry Walter, MD, PhD
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Sydney
Clinical Director, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
Northern Sydney Local Health District
Sydney, NSW, Australia
