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Overview

Maryland Pao is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields such as Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions in Clinical Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics that frequently characterize Pao's work include Suicide and Self-Harm Studies, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, Child and Adolescent Health, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, and Mental Health Treatment and Access.

Pao has contributed multiple research articles, including the following recent papers:

  • Validation of the Ask Suicide-Screening Questions for Adult Medical Inpatients: A Brief Tool for All Ages (2020) - Psychosomatics
  • Screening Pediatric Medical Patients for Suicide Risk: Is Depression Screening Enough? (2021) - Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Primary and Secondary Prevention of Youth Suicide (2020) - PEDIATRICS
  • Validation and Feasibility of the ASQ Among Pediatric Medical and Surgical Inpatients (2020) - Hospital Pediatrics
  • Implementing Suicide Risk Screening in a Pediatric Primary Care Setting: From Research to Practice (2022) - Academic Pediatrics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pao include:

  • Lisa M. Horowitz
  • Jeffrey A. Bridge
  • Annabelle M. Mournet
  • Deborah J. Snyder
  • Haniya Raza

Pao's work is often published in specific venues such as the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, UNC Libraries, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Academic Pediatrics.

Best Publications

  • Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ): a brief instrument for the pediatric emergency department.

    Lisa M. Horowitz;Jeffrey A. Bridge;Stephen J. Teach;Elizabeth Ballard

  • Elevated basal serum tryptase identifies a multisystem disorder associated with increased TPSAB1 copy number.

    Jonathan J Lyons;Xiaomin Yu;Jason D Hughes;Quang T Le

  • Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review

    Larry K. Brown;Kevin J. Lourie;Maryland Pao

  • Youths and HIV/AIDS: Psychiatry’s Role in a Changing Epidemic

    Geri R. Donenberg;Maryland Pao

  • Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antibodies, cognitive dysfunction, and depression in systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Larissa Lapteva;Miroslawa Nowak;Cheryl H. Yarboro;Kazuki Takada

  • Allowing Adolescents and Young Adults to Plan Their End-of-Life Care

    Lori Wiener;Sima Zadeh;Haven Battles;Kristin Baird

  • Suicide screening in schools, primary care and emergency departments

    Lisa M Horowitz;Elizabeth D Ballard;Elizabeth D Ballard;Maryland Pao

  • Anxiety in medically ill children/adolescents.

    Maryland Pao;B A Abigail Bosk

  • How I Wish to be Remembered: The Use of an Advance Care Planning Document in Adolescent and Young Adult Populations

    Lori Wiener;Elizabeth Ballard;Tara Brennan;Haven Battles

  • Synaptic Plasticity Deficits and Mild Memory Impairments in Mouse Models of Chronic Granulomatous Disease

    Kenneth T. Kishida;Charles A. Hoeffer;Daoying Hu;Maryland Pao

  • The HIV Experience: Youth Identified Barriers for Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Care

    Lori S. Wiener;Brie Anne Kohrt;Haven B. Battles;Maryland Pao

  • Suicide Risk Screening in Pediatric Hospitals: Clinical Pathways to Address a Global Health Crisis.

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  • Late consequences of chronic pediatric illness.

    Susan Turkel;Maryland Pao

  • Psychiatric diagnoses in adolescents seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus.

    Maryland Pao;Maureen Lyon;Lawrence J. D'Angelo;Wendy B. Schuman

  • Opening end-of-life discussions: how to introduce Voicing My CHOiCES™, an advance care planning guide for adolescents and young adults.

    Sima Zadeh;Maryland Pao;Lori Wiener

  • NADPH oxidase is required for NMDA receptor‐dependent activation of ERK in hippocampal area CA1

    Kenneth T. Kishida;Maryland Pao;Steven M. Holland;Eric Klann

  • Academic Continuity and School Reentry Support as a Standard of Care in Pediatric Oncology.

    Amanda L. Thompson;Heather L. Christiansen;Megan Elam;Jennifer Hoag

  • A family group approach to increasing adherence to therapy in HIV-infected youths: results of a pilot project.

    Maureen E. Lyon;Connie Trexler;Carleen Akpan-Townsend;Maryland Pao

  • Autism Spectrum Features in Smith-Magenis Syndrome

    Gonzalo Laje;Rebecca Morse;William Richter;Jonathan Ball

  • Cognitive function in patients with chronic granulomatous disease: a preliminary report.

    Maryland Pao;Edythe A. Wiggs;Melissa M. Anastacio;Jenny Hyun

  • the United States Government.

    Adriana J. Pavletic;Maryland Pao

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Bridge
Jeffrey A. Bridge The Ohio State University
Elizabeth D. Ballard
Elizabeth D. Ballard National Institutes of Health
Lori Wiener
Lori Wiener National Institutes of Health
David A. Jobes
David A. Jobes Catholic University of America
Ian H. Stanley
Ian H. Stanley Florida State University
Larry K. Brown
Larry K. Brown Brown University
Carla A. Mazefsky
Carla A. Mazefsky University of Pittsburgh
Larry L. Mullins
Larry L. Mullins Oklahoma State University
Audrey Thurm
Audrey Thurm National Institutes of Health
Kathleen R. Merikangas
Kathleen R. Merikangas National Institutes of Health

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