Who is CHADIS?
| Total Child Health, Inc. |
| Total Child Health Inc. (TCH) is the management
company which licenses the use of CHADIS. TCH is a for-profit Limited
Liability Corporation incorporated for the specific purpose of promoting
the usage of CHADIS in Pediatric care. |
Raymond
Sturner, MD
Executive Chairman, Total Child Health, Inc.
| Associate Professor
of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| Dr. Raymond Sturner is a developmental-behavioral
pediatrician and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and former Director
of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Fellowship Training Program
at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was previously Director
of the Child Development Unit at Duke University. His research interests
have been in the application of child development to primary care pediatrics.
He has been the principal investigator of some 60 "grant years" of
research and demonstration projects including components of CHADIS described
here. He also has had training in child development at the Yale Child Study
Center. |
|
Barbara Howard, MD
President, Total Child Health, Inc.
| Assistant
Professor of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine |
| Dr. Barbara Howard is a developmental-behavioral
pediatrician trained by Dr. Brazelton at Harvard, an Assistant Professor
of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins and former Co-Director of the fellowship
program. She is a very popular national speaker on child behavior
problems and is past president of the Society for Developmental and
Behavioral Pediatrics. She was a contributing author for Bright Futures,
DSM-PC and Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health and has served
on national committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics. |
|
Christopher
Schultz
Chief Technology Officer
| Christopher Schultz is the Technical
Director of TCH and heads all software engineering within the organization.
At TCH, Schultz brings together Open Source Software (OSS) technologies
with custom-built software to provide applications and services for
healthcare professionals as well as use within the organization.
Schultz has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Software
Engineering and Computer Science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
in Terre Haute, Indiana, with concentrations in Computer Graphics,
Human-Computer Interfaces, and Optics. |
|
Tanya
Morrel, PhD
Lead Research Associate
| Dr. Tanya Morrel, PhD is a research
associate at the Center who oversees the overall development and
piloting of CHADIS. Dr. Morrel has a uniquely appropriate background
in both clinical child psychology and systems engineering. Dr. Morrel
received her degree in systems engineering from the University of
Virginia and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research experience and publications
are in the area of child abuse and domestic violence. |
|
Kathleen
Albus, PhD
Research Associate – Zero to 3 Age Group
| Dr. Albus is a research associate
at the Center who leads the development of CHADIS for the Zero to
Three age group and also directs the well baby microanalytic laboratory
of the Center. Dr. Albus graduated from Duke University and obtained
her doctorate in child clinical psychology from the University of
Delaware. Following an internship at the University of Maryland,
Dr. Albus was on the faculty in psychology at the University of Delaware.
Dr. Albus' research has centered on infant-caregiver interactions
in developing attachment relationships and infants in foster care. |
|
|
|
“CHADIS is the
best example of what the future of pediatrics should
look like.”
Dr. Neal Halfon, Professor,
UCLA, invited address: “The Future of General Pediatrics” at
National Pediatric Academic Societies, May, 2006
|
|
