Roma A. Vasa

Primary Academic Title

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Contact for Research Inquiries

Personal Office Building
3901 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211

Phone: (443) 923-7618
smithj@kennedykrieger.org

Research Summary

Child and adolescent anxiety and depressive disorders, behavioral and neural correlates of pediatric anxiety disorders, psychiatric consequences of traumatic brain injury

Selected Publications

• Gerring J, Slomine B, Vasa R, Grados M, Chen A, Rising W, Christensen J, Bryan N, Denckla M: Development of posttraumatic stress disorder after severe closed head injury in children and adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2002: 41: 157-165.

• Vasa R, Gerring J, Grados M, Slomine B, Rising W, Christensen J, Denckla M, Riddle MA: Anxiety following severe pediatric closed head injury. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2002: 41: 148-156.

• Vasa RA, Grados M, Slomine B, Herskovitz EH, Thompson RE, Salorio C,Christensen J, Wurtsa C, Riddle MA, Gerring JP: Neuroimaging correlates of anxiety after pediatric traumatic brain injury. Biological Psychiatry 2004: 55(3): 208-216.

• Vasa RA, Roberson-Nay, R, Klein, RG, Mannuzza, S, Moulton JL, Guardino M, Merikangas A, Pine DS: Memory deficits in children with and at risk for anxiety disorders. Anxiety and Depression 2006.

• Vasa, RA, Pine DS: Pharmacotherapy of depressed children and adolescents: current issues and future directions (2006). Biol Psychiatry 2006: 1;59(11):1021-8.

Additional Training

Columbia UniversityPresbyterian Hospital, New York City, New York, 1992, Internal Medicine; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1995, General Psychiatry Residency; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry