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Uma Rao is affiliated with the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology and medicine, with a significant emphasis on clinical psychology. Their work incorporates subfields such as public health, environmental and occupational health, behavioral neuroscience, general health professions, and emergency medicine.

Rao's main areas of study address topics relevant to child abuse and trauma, stress responses and cortisol, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, posttraumatic stress disorder research, resilience and mental health, eating disorders and behaviors, and issues related to obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Their publication record includes a number of recent papers covering topics related to racial and ethnic health disparities, trauma, and mental health. Selected papers include:

  • Stress-Induced Eating Among Racial/Ethnic Groups in the United States: a Systematic Review, 2020, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • Predicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Survivors of Recent Interpersonal Violence, 2020, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Racial, Gender, and Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Pediatric Trauma Care, 2022, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
  • Relationships between Depression and Executive Functioning in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Unpredictable Home Environment, 2022, Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Social determinants of trauma care: Associations of race, insurance status, and place on opioid prescriptions, postdischarge referrals, and mortality, 2021, The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care

Rao frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Brain Behavior and Immunity, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, and SLEEP.

Their collaborative work often involves coauthors including Matthew C. Morris, Kerry L. Kinney, Burel R. Goodin, Subodh Nag, and Stephen Bruehl. Among these, Matthew C. Morris has coauthored 11 publications with Rao, followed by Kerry L. Kinney with 9, and others contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data

    Joan Kaufman;Boris Birmaher;David Brent;Uma Rao;Uma Rao

  • Unipolar depression in adolescents: clinical outcome in adulthood.

    Uma Rao;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher;Ronald E. Dahl

  • HIPPOCAMPAL CHANGES ASSOCIATED WITH EARLY-LIFE ADVERSITY AND VULNERABILITY TO DEPRESSION

    Uma Rao;Li Ann Chen;Anup S. Bidesi;Mujeeb U. Shad

  • K-SADS-PL

    Joan Kaufman;Boris Birmaher;David A. Brent;Neal D. Ryan

  • Childhood Depression and Risk of Suicide: A Preliminary Report of a Longitudinal Study

    Uma Rao;Myrna M. Weissman;Jacqueline A. Martin;Robert W. Hammond

  • Characteristics, correlates, and outcomes of childhood and adolescent depressive disorders.

    Uma Rao;Li-Ann Chen

  • Continuity of Depression During the Transition to Adulthood: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study of Young Women

    Uma Rao;Constance Hammen;Shannon E. Daley

  • EFFECTS OF EARLY AND RECENT ADVERSE EXPERIENCES ON ADRENAL RESPONSE TO PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS IN DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS

    Uma Rao;Constance Hammen;Luis R. Ortiz;Li-Ann Chen

  • Depressive symptoms predict hospitalization for adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

    Sunita M. Stewart;Uma Rao;Graham J. Emslie;Diane Klein

  • White matter disruptions in adolescents exposed to childhood maltreatment and vulnerability to psychopathology

    Hao Huang;Tejasvi Gundapuneedi;Uma Rao

  • Relationship between depression and substance use disorders in adolescent women during the transition to adulthood.

    Uma Rao;Shannon E. Daley;Constance Hammen

  • A case-control family history study of depression in adolescents.

    Douglas E. Williamson;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher;Ronald E. Dahl

  • The context of depression in clinic-referred youth : Neglected areas in treatment

    Constance Hammen;Karen D Rudolph;John Weisz;Uma Rao

  • The relationship between longitudinal clinical course and sleep and cortisol changes in adolescent depression

    Uma Rao;Ronald E. Dahl;Neal D. Ryan;Boris Birmaher

  • White Matter Changes in Healthy Adolescents at Familial Risk for Unipolar Depression: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Hao Huang;Xin Fan;Douglas E. Williamson;Uma Rao

  • Cortisol, heart rate, and blood pressure as early markers of PTSD risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Matthew C. Morris;Matthew C. Morris;Natalie Hellman;James L. Abelson;Uma Rao

  • Factors associated with the development of substance use disorder in depressed adolescents.

    Uma Rao;Neal D. Ryan;Ronald E. Dahl;Boris Birmaher

  • Predictors of first onset and recurrence of major depression in young women during the 5 years following high school graduation.

    Shannon E. Daley;Constance L. Hammen;Uma Rao

  • Links between depression and substance abuse in adolescents: neurobiological mechanisms.

    Uma Rao

  • Gray Matter Differences Between Healthy and Depressed Adolescents: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study

    Mujeeb U. Shad;Srirangam Muddasani;Uma Rao

  • Growth hormone secretion in children and adolescents at high risk for major depressive disorder.

    Boris Birmaher;Ronald E. Dahl;Douglas E. Williamson;James M. Perel

  • Cortisol responses to psychosocial stress predict depression trajectories: social-evaluative threat and prior depressive episodes as moderators.

    Matthew C. Morris;Uma Rao;Uma Rao;Judy Garber

  • Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version

    John Kaufman;Boris Birmaher;David Brent;Uma Rao

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris Birmaher
Boris Birmaher University of Pittsburgh
Constance Hammen
Constance Hammen University of California, Los Angeles
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Sunita M. Stewart
Sunita M. Stewart The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
James T. McCracken
James T. McCracken University of California, Los Angeles
Judy Garber
Judy Garber Harvard University
Lynn S. Walker
Lynn S. Walker Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chrystyna D. Kouros
Chrystyna D. Kouros Southern Methodist University
Carol S. North
Carol S. North The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health

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