Advisory Board
Peter D. Anderson, Pharm.D., BCPP, CMI-IV, FACFE, FASCP is a pharmacist, pharmacologist and forensic scientist. He obtained both his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Anderson is the clinical coordinator of the pharmacy department at Taunton State Hospital. He is also the Chairperson of the Research Steering Committee and Secretary of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee at Taunton State Hospital. Dr. Anderson is a toxicology consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health Office of Investigations. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the University of Rhode Island and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He served five years as Contributing Editor (Psychopharmacology) for The ADHD Challenge, a national newsletter about ADHD. Dr. Anderson was awarded two grants from the American Pharmaceutical Association Foundation to implement a pharmaceutical care program for ADHD and related conditions. In April of 2007, he was presented the Community Service Award from the Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Providence Graduate Chapter. He has worked several years as a pharmacist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He is a Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist. Dr. Anderson is a certified Medical Investigator Level 4 with the American College of Forensic Examiners. He also is the Director of the Pharmacology Division of the American College of Forensic Examiners. He has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Pharmacy Practice for an issue devoted to forensics. Dr. Anderson has been a Guest Editor (Basic Bibliography Column) for the Hospital Pharmacy journal. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists and the American College of Forensic Examiners. His work has been profiled in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Drug Topics, American Druggist, and several newsletters. He is a founding member of the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. Dr. Anderson is a member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology.
Jerome J. Schultz, Ph.D. For the past three years, prior to returning to private clinical practice, Dr. Jerome (Jerry) Schultz served as the Co-Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Development, CCAD, located in Medford, MA. The CCAD is a multi-disciplinary diagnostic and treatment clinic which is a service of the Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Teaching Hospital. Dr. Schultz is a clinical neuropsychologist and is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry. He specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of children and young adults with learning disabilities, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other special needs. He received his undergraduate and Master’s degree from The Ohio State University and holds a Ph.D. from Boston College. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships in both clinical psychology and pediatric neuropsychology. Before coming to the CCAD, Dr. Schultz served as the Founding Director of an evaluation center called the Learning Lab @ Lesley University. Formerly a middle school special education teacher, Dr. Schultz maintained a private neuropsychology practice in Wellesley, Massachusetts and taught at Lesley for over 25 years before taking on the leadership role at the CCAD.
In addition to his clinical and educational work, Dr. Schultz serves as an international consultant on issues related to the neuropsychology and appropriate education of children and young adults with special needs. He is on the Editorial Board of Academic Psychiatry, a member of the Working Group on the ADHD Registry and the Committee on the Arts in Healthcare at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Schultz currently serves as Consulting Neuropsychologist to the Newton Massachusetts Public Schools and is involved in several projects examining the use of technology with children with special needs.
Dr. Schultz has served on the Board of Directors of the Learning Disabilities Network, and was the Vice President of the Board of the Learning Disabilities Association of Massachusetts. He has created several award-winning videotapes, and written many articles about children with special needs. He served for many years as the Expert on Learning Disabilities and ADHD at www.familyeducation.com, a website for parents and teachers. He has been a contributor to www.ldonline.org, a site that provides valuable information about learning disabilities.
Jonathan Brush, Ph.D. currently practices adult, adolescent, and child psychotherapy, specializing in diagnosing and treating anxiety, attentional and behavioral problems in Boston, Brookline, and Wellesley, Massachusetts (1983 – Present). He received a B.A. from Earlham College (1967) and a M.A. (1977) and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology (1982) from Boston University. In 1978, Dr. Brush completed an internship in Clinical Psychology at the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston, and from 2005-2006 he completed advanced small group training in cognitive therapy at the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Brush acted as the clinical psychologist for Harvard Community Health Plan/Harvard Vanguard Medical Association from 1987-2006. Before that he was the Director of Stony Brook Counseling Center, and a clinical psychologist at the Charles River Hospital and the East Boston-Winthrop Counseling Center. Dr. Brush has been an Instructor in Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School since 1990. Prior to his appointment at Harvard Medical School he was the Child Mental Health Coordinator and Coordinator of the ADHD Program at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (1997 – 2000). He has also acted as the Director of Contnuing Psychological Education at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (1997 – 2005) and been a member of the Human Studies Committee at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (1999 – 2003).
Peter S. Jensen, MD, is President, CEO, and founder of the REACH Institute (the Resource for Advancing Children’s Health), a national non-profit organization committed to ensuring that children, adolescents, and families have access to optimal care for behavioral and emotional disorders. From 1999 until mid-2007, Dr. Jensen was the Ruane Professor in Child Psychiatry at the Columbia University in New York, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health. Prior to coming to New York, Dr. Jensen was Associate Director, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), for child and adolescent research, where he served from 1989 to 2000. At NIMH he was the lead NIMH investigator on the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD study (MTA) and an investigator for other NIMH multi-site national studies. He is currently a scientific advisor for CHADD (Children, Adolescents, and Adults with ADHD), NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill), and is a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network for Children’s Mental Health Services Research. He has served on many federal task forces, including the Planning Board for the landmark Surgeon General’s 1999 Report on Mental Health, numerous committees for the American Psychiatric Association and American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He has held a number of elected offices, including President of the International Society for Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology and Secretary and Council Member of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and. Dr. Jensen received his MD degree in 1978 from the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, DC, and completed his post-graduate psychiatry and child psychiatry training in 1983 at the University of California, San Francisco. Thereafter he served as the head of the Child & Family Psychiatric Services at Eisenhower Army Medical Center and the associate director of child psychiatric training at the Medical College of Georgia. In 1998 he served briefly as a research scientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, prior to his joining NIMH in 1989.
Mary Robertson, RN, BSN, co-founded Lexington’s Bluegrass Chapter of CHADD (1992) for families and professionals who seek support and information regarding attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD). Robertson also founded the CHADD State Council (1994) to address concerns regarding AD/HD at a state level. She has successfully advocated for changes in two state laws that directly impact children with AD/HD. She was the CHADD National “Coordinator of the Year” (1994) and acted as the CHADD National President (1999). Robertson has testified before the Kentucky and U.S. Congress on matters related to AD/HD. She is a member of the national “AD/HD Experts on Call” program based in New York and sits on the professional advisory board for Inflexxion. She is also an adult with AD/HD and mother of two children, a son diagnosed with AD/HD-C and learning disabilities and a daughter with AD/HD-I and anxiety. Currently, she lectures at state and national conferences and is the author of several articles that address the various types of AD/HD. Robertson is a member of the Bluegrass Chapter of CHADD’s Professional Advisory Board, and a consultant and advocate for families living with AD/HD. Previously, she worked as a staff nurse, and then manager of the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at the University of Kentucky Medical Center (1982-1990).
Previous Board Members
Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D., is Professor in the College of Health Professions at the Medical University of South Carolina where he has worked since January of 2003. Prior to that time, he was Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Barkley is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN, ABPP). He is a clinical scientist, educator, and practitioner who has authored, co-authored, or co-edited 15 books and clinical manuals. He has published more than 170 scientific articles and book chapters related to the nature, assessment, and treatment of ADHD and related disorders. His most recent books include Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Handbook for Diagnosis and Treatment (2nd ed., 1998), Taking Charge of ADHD: The Complete Authoritative Guide for Parents (2000, 2nd ed.), Defiant Children: A Clinician’s Manual for Assessment and Parent Training (2nd ed., 1997), Child Psychopathology (1996) and Treatment of Childhood Disorders (1998) both co-edited with Eric Mash, Ph.D., ADHD and the Nature of Self-Control (1997), and Your Defiant Child: Eight Steps to Better Behavior (1998). In 1993, he founded a bimonthly newsletter for clinical professionals, The ADHD Report (Guilford). He has created seven professional videotapes on ADHD and defiant children, three of which have won national awards, including the 1992 and 1994 Golden Apple Award for educational videos from the National Education Association. Dr. Barkley has served on the editorial boards of 11 scientific journals and as a reviewer for numerous others. He was the President of the Section of Clinical Child Psychology, Division 12, of the American Psychological Association (1988), and was President of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (1991).
Hector R. Bird, M.D. is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan (1960) and his medical degree from Yale Medical School (1965). From 1968-1972 he trained in both General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at N.Y. State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University. He received a Certificate in Psychoanalysis from the William A. White Institute in New York (1977). Until 2005, Dr. Bird was Deputy Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia where he conducted epidemiologic research and actively participated in the residency training program. He presently practices child, adolescent and adult Psychiatry, and adult psychoanalysis, and has several publications on the psychiatric treatment of children and adolescents. In his research, he has distinguished himself in methodology and developed instruments for the assessment of psychiatric impairment in children that are widely used in other research. Dr. Bird participated in the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD in 1999 and is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters, many related to ADHD. He has been on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of Child and Family Studies. Dr. Bird received the Wilfred C. Hulse Memorial Award from the New York Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2001, for outstanding contributions to the field of child psychiatry and in 2007 received the Rieger Award for scientific achievement from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). He is a fellow of the AACAP and of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry.
Robert Freeman, MD is the Associate Director of Outpatient Mental Health Services and Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at North General Hospital/Mt. Sinai Psychiatric Residency Training Program. He also serves as Medical Director of Northside Center for Child Development. He is a graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his residency and fellowship training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is certified in Adult Psychiatry and specializes in the treatment of child, adolescent, and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorders and co-mordid conditions.
Kay Gilmore, RN is a Registered Nurse at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, working as on 6 West. Ms. Gilmore received her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh and her Masters Degree in Nursing from Widener University in Pennsylvania. She has spoken at various local and regional meetings in the area of AD/HD and has served on the local Board of Directors for CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder) for the past 13 years, as well as having served on the National Board of CHADD for the past 4 years. CHADD is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to helping those with AD/HD and those who care for them.
Bruce Man, MD, MMM, is a general pediatrician and president of Medical Associates Pediatrics (MAP) in Leominster, MA. MAP is a 12 provider pediatric group, and is a full-service outpatient pediatric office. Besides enjoying the management of the practice, Dr. Man maintains a full patient schedule at the office and has a large panel of patients with behavioral health issues, especially ADHD. He is also active in the community, including lecturing on ADHD. Dr. Man received his M.D. from the University of Miami and did his residency at the Letterman Army Medical Center at the Presidio of San Francisco. After returning from a tour as a pediatrician in Germany, he went into private pediatrics in the Northeast. He has also been the Medical Director for his local IPA as well chairs several hospital committees including Perinatal, Pharmacy & Therapeutics and their Institutional Review Board. Dr. Man recently received his Masters in Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002.