| | Staff Scientists and Clinicians
| Maryland Pao, M.D. |
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Dr. Pao is a Deputy Director in the Office of the Clinical Director in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Pao serves as Chair of both the NIMH IRP Institutional Review Board and NIMH IRP Data Safety Monitoring Program. She also heads the Pediatric Consultation Liaison Service in the Clinical Center. A native of Bethesda, she attended Wellesley College before completing a BA/MD program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Pediatric and Psychiatric Residency training as well as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to returning to the Bethesda area, Dr. Pao directed the Pediatric Consultation Liaison Service in the Children’s Center of Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is board certified in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
For the past eight years, Dr. Pao served as the Director of Pediatric Consultation Liaison and Emergency Psychiatric Services at Children�s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at George Washington University and at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. |
| Research Interests |
Dr. Pao's clinical research projects related to children with co-morbid medical and psychiatric conditions have included the following: a study to determine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adolescents with HIV; and projects to develop a pain management program for children with severe burns leading to a trial of an innovative skin treatment in children for burns. For the past few years, she has collaborated with investigators in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to examine whether there are behavioral or cognitive phenotypes associated with various leukocyte disorders (e.g., chronic granulomatous disease).
Dr. Pao plans to continue her collaborative research with investigators in the NIAID examining the
neurocognitive phenotype associated with chronic granulomatous disease. This project is close to her
core interests in the complex interactions between somatic and psychiatric illnesses and provides an
important opportunity to examine the potential benefits of consultative intervention in chronic illness in
childhood.
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| Representative Selected Recent Publications: |
- Pao M.: Psychiatric
considerations in the pain management of children.
Curr Opin Psychiatry, 11:395-399, 1998.
- Grimbacher B, Dutra
AS, Holland SM, Fischer RE, Pao M, Gallin JI, Puck
JM.: Analphoid marker chromosome in a patient
with hyper-IgE syndrome, autism, and mild mental retardation.
Genetics in Medicine, 1:213-218,1999.
- Pao M, Lyon M, D’Angelo
LJ, Schuman WB, Tipnis T, Mrazek DA.: Psychiatric
diagnoses in adolescents seropositive for the human
immunodeficiency virus. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med, 154:240-244, 2000.
- Brown LK, Lourie KJ
, Pao M. : Children and adolescents living with
HIV and AIDS: A review. J Child Psychol Psychiat, 41:81-96, 2000.
- Lukish JR, Eichelberger
MR, Newman KD, Pao M, Nobuhara K, Keating M, Golonka,
N, Pratsch G, Misra V, Valladres E, Johnson P, Gilbert
JC, Powell DM, Hartman GE, The use of bioactive
skin substitute decreases length of stay for pediatric
burn patients. J Pediatr Surg, 36:1118-1121, 2001.
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