It still baffles me that so many psychiatric practitioners haven’t figured out that life with ADHD is hard, which frequently leads to sadness and worry. Given the prevalence of ADHD and the frequency of comorbidity it shocked me when I saw how many psychiatric providers don’t even look for underlying ADHD before treating symptoms of anxiety or depression. Despite this, it was overall disappointing. I was driven to learn about the treatment of more complicated ADHD patients and to expand my practice to include adults.
In 2003, I went back to school to earn my degree in Psychiatric Nursing and this time I didn’t need a push. Then, with a gentle push from my collaborating physician, I started a private practice in 1997. My love for working with ADHD patients and their parents, made me a specialist in 1995. What an eye-opener it was, having my lifelong difficulties finally explained. Even in Pediatrics, it was never mentioned in school. When my kids got old enough, and with a gentle push from my mother, I went for my Masters in Pediatric Nursing and, in 1993, started my first job as a Nurse Practitioner in Pediatric Neurology. I was doing well in school again and loved it. Suddenly, there was a career for me, nursing, and it was in the real world of public health. Magazine called The New Nursing, got my career started. Three years later (1973), an article in Ms. Since all I had ever wanted to be was a doctor, and that was unlikely I got my Mrs.
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High school was harder because I didn’t know how to do the work. Luckily, I was a nice kid, well liked, never got into trouble so I got by. I did very well in school but never learned to study. This work is intended to inform our understanding of the heterogeneity in ADHD as it relates to developmental trajectories and informing personalized medicine. Rosch also incorporates physiological and neuroimaging methods to study the interaction of cognitive and motivational processes at a neurobiological level.
Rosch’s broad research interests include examining the interaction of cognition and motivation essential to behavioral control in typical development and implicated in the pathophysiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and related disorders. She also holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Keri Rosch is a clinical psychologist conducting research in the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research and providing psychological assessments in the Executive Function Clinic the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He also serves as a regional medical director for Pennsylvania’s Child Psychiatry Access Program where he has studied efforts to improve engagement with ADHD treatments in the primary care setting.Īs a member of APSARD and a conference attendee, I have always been impressed the breadth of international expertise from academia, industry and the community who come together through APSARD to expand the evidence base for the assessment and treatment of ADHD across the lifespan.ĭr. He runs a clinical practice that provides assessment, psychosocial and pharmacological treatment services for ADHD across the lifespan. He was recently awarded the AACAP Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award for Research on Attention-Deficit Disorder for his study examining the growth effects of CNS stimulants. He has published over 90 peer reviewed articles or book chapters and served as a PI or CoI on over 40 different research trials with funding from NIH, industry and private foundations. His research centers on the integration of medication and behavioral interventions targeting both children and their parents to improve the efficacy and tolerability of ADHD treatments. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in academics, with a clinical, research and teaching focus on ADHD. He completed medical school and general psychiatry residency training at SUNY Buffalo and child fellowship at MGH. Waxmonsky is the Division Chief of Child Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hershey Medical Center, the University Chair in Child Psychiatry at Penn State and Professor of Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine.
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