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20530
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lynn S. Walker is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a focused contribution to Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Gastroenterology, Pharmacy, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics addressed in their body of work include:

  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • Gastroesophageal reflux and treatments

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Lynn S. Walker include:

  • "The effect of chronic nausea on gastric slow wave spatiotemporal dynamics in children" (2020) published in Neurogastroenterology & Motility
  • "Clinical Hypnosis in Pediatric Crohn's Disease" (2020) published in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
  • "Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with functional abdominal pain: a randomized clinical trial testing differential efficacy by patient subgroup" (2021) published in Pain
  • "Does Quantitative Sensory Testing Improve Prediction of Chronic Pain Trajectories? A Longitudinal Study of Youth With Functional Abdominal Pain Participating in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment" (2021) published in Clinical Journal of Pain
  • "Comorbid Sleep Disturbance in Adolescents with Functional Abdominal Pain" (2020) published in Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lynn S. Walker include:

  • Sari Acra
  • Rona L. Levy
  • Amanda Stone
  • Alexandra Russell
  • Stephen Bruehl

The researcher has published substantially in various venues, with notable publication counts in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Gastroenterology
  • Journal of Pain
  • Pain
  • Neurogastroenterology & Motility

Lynn S. Walker received the distinction of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Childhood Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: Child/Adolescent

    Andrée Rasquin;Carlo Di Lorenzo;David Forbes;Ernesto Guiraldes

  • The Functional Disability Inventory: Measuring a Neglected Dimension of Child Health Status

    Lynn S. Walker;John W. Greene

  • Core outcome domains and measures for pediatric acute and chronic/recurrent pain clinical trials: PedIMMPACT recommendations

    Patrick J. McGrath;Gary A. Walco;Dennis C. Turk;Robert H. Dworkin

  • Development and Validation of the Rome IV Diagnostic Questionnaire for Adults

    Olafur S. Palsson;William E. Whitehead;Miranda A.L. Van Tilburg;Lin Chang

  • Somatization symptoms in a community sample of children and adolescents: Further validation of the Children's Somatization Inventory.

    Judy Garber;Lynn S. Walker;Janice Zeman

  • Functional assessment of pediatric pain patients: Psychometric properties of the Functional Disability Inventory

    Robyn Lewis Claar;Lynn S. Walker

  • Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Their Parents: More Somatic Complaints, Anxiety, and Depression than Other Patient Families?

    Lynn S. Walker;John W. Greene

  • Psychosocial correlates of recurrent childhood pain: a comparison of pediatric patients with recurrent abdominal pain, organic illness, and psychiatric disorders.

    Lynn S. Walker;Judy Garber;John W. Greene

  • Development and validation of the pain response inventory for children.

    Lynn S. Walker;Craig A. Smith;Judy Garber;Deborah A. Van Slyke

  • Somatization symptoms in pediatric abdominal pain patients: relation to chronicity of abdominal pain and parent somatization.

    Lynn S. Walker;Judy Garber;John W. Greene

  • Parent attention versus distraction: Impact on symptom complaints by children with and without chronic functional abdominal pain

    Lynn S. Walker;Sara E. Williams;Craig A. Smith;Judy Garber

  • Chronic Abdominal Pain In Children: a Technical Report of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

    Carlo Di Lorenzo;Richard B Colletti;Horald P Lehmann;John T Boyle

  • Gastrointestinal Dysfunction in Autism: Parental Report, Clinical Evaluation, and Associated Factors

    Phillip Gorrindo;Kent C. Williams;Evon B. Lee;Evon B. Lee;Lynn S. Walker

  • Recurrent abdominal pain in children: psychiatric diagnoses and parental psychopathology.

    Judy Garber;Janice Zeman;Lynn S. Walker

  • Children's Somatization Inventory: Psychometric Properties of the Revised Form (CSI-24)

    Lynn S. Walker;Joy E. Beck;Judy Garber;Warren Lambert

  • Parental Response to Child Illness Behavior

    Lynn S. Walker;Janice L. Zeman

  • Recurrent abdominal pain: A potential precursor of irritable bowel syndrome in adolescents and young adults

    Lynn S. Walker;Jessica W. Guite;Maura Duke;John A. Barnard

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy for children with functional abdominal pain and their parents decreases pain and other symptoms

    Rona L. Levy;Shelby L. Langer;Lynn S. Walker;Joan M. Romano

  • Functional Abdominal Pain in Childhood and Long-term Vulnerability to Anxiety Disorders

    Grace D. Shelby;Kezia C. Shirkey;Amanda L. Sherman;Joy E. Beck

  • Recurrent abdominal pain: symptom subtypes based on the Rome II Criteria for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders.

    Lynn S. Walker;Tricia A. Lipani;John W. Greene;Karen Caines

  • The relation of daily stressors to somatic and emotional symptoms in children with and without recurrent abdominal pain.

    Lynn S. Walker;Judy Garber;Craig A. Smith;Deborah A. Van Slyke

Frequent Co-Authors

Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University
Craig A. Smith
Craig A. Smith Vanderbilt University
Tonya M. Palermo
Tonya M. Palermo University of Washington
Michael VonKorff
Michael VonKorff Kaiser Permanente
Janice Zeman
Janice Zeman William & Mary
Melanie Noel
Melanie Noel University of Calgary
Steven D. Hollon
Steven D. Hollon Vanderbilt University
Emily E. Tanner-Smith
Emily E. Tanner-Smith University of Oregon
Carl L. von Baeyer
Carl L. von Baeyer University of Saskatchewan
Pamela J. Shaw
Pamela J. Shaw University of Sheffield

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