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John March, M.D., MPH
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Dr. March is Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. Though based formally in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Dr. March also holds faculty appointments at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and in the Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences. Dr. March received a BA from the University of California at Riverside and an MS in molecular biology from the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained an MD-MPH (epidemiology) from the UCLA School of Medicine, and later completed a residency in Family Practice at that institution. Following several years as a family practitioner in rural Montana, Dr. March trained in General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, |
Madison. Dr. March has extensive experience developing and testing the efficacy and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatments for pediatric mental disorders. He holds a K24 career development award from the NIMH devoted to clinical trials methods, is a member of the Steering Committee of the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD Study and PI of several NIMH funded treatment outcome studies: the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study (POTS), Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology/Psychosocial Interventions, the Child Anxiety Management Study (CAMS) and of the Coordinating Center for the Treatment of Adolescent Depression Study (TADS). In addition, he has extensive experience conducting and consulting to industry in the design and implementation of Phase III and IV clinical trials in pediatric psychopharmacology. Dr. March is an elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) and the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP) and of the Council of Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). He is an appointed member of the AACAP Workgroup on Research, the Tourette's Syndrome Medical Advisory Board, the Depression/Bipolar Support Alliance Scientific Advisory Board and, until recently, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America Scientific Advisory and the Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation Scientific Advisory Boards. Widely published in the areas of OCD, PTSD, anxiety, depression ADHD and pediatric psychopharmacology, his most recent books, OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Manual and Phobic and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinician's Guide to Effective Psychosocial and Pharmacological Interventions define the state of the art in the care of anxious youth. In addition to published and ongoing research, Dr. March is active in teaching and training in the treatment of child and adolescent mental disorders locally, nation-wide, and internationally.
Research interests
- Anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders
- Developmental psychopmarmacology
- Clinical trials methods
- Psychometrics/instrument development
- CNS mechanisms of treatment response
The following is a list of abstracts from lectures Dr. March delivers around the world. Each one provides a simple overview of the topic as well as a short bibliography of further reading on the subject (these will open in a new window).
See Dr. March's Full Bibliography in pdf format
Why Become a Researcher?
For Dr. March's availablity for lectures, research collaboration, or forensics consultation, please e-mail him at jsmarch@acpub.duke.edu. (top) | (back to About Us) |
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