User:RBCanty/sandbox William Pelham

William Ellerbe Pelham Jr., Ph.D. is a Professor at Florida International University. He received a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1976.

Dr. Pelham's research has focused on cases of ADHD in children and adolescents--specifically treatment, evaluation, pharmacotherapy, and behavioral therapies. He has been an author on at least 400 publications concerning ADHD treatment and assessment. Dr. Pelham has studied ADHD and substance use in children and patient outcomes into adulthood. Other studies have focused on "dosing and sequencing in behavioral, pharmacological and combined interventions". Dr. Pelham developed a summer treatment program for ADHD which is now considered by the American Psychological Association (APA) and Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) to be the state-of-the-art for ADHD treatment in youth. His research has been funded by governmental organizations (such as the Institute of Education Sciences, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , the National Institute on Drug Abuse , and the National Institutes of Health), schools (such as the Ohio Schools Alliance, the Buffalo Public School District, Florida State University, the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center, the University of Pittsburgh, and Washington State University), pharmaceutical companies , and private foundations (such as the Children’s Guild Foundation, The Children’s Trust, the Hope Haven Association, the John R. Oishei Foundation, the McCune Charitable Trust and Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health , and the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology).

Dr. Pelham "has served as a consultant/advisor on ADHD and related topics to numerous federal agencies (NIMH, NIAAA, NIDA, IOM, OMAR, the CDC, and AHRQ) and organizations (AAP, AACAP, APA, CHADD, NICHQ, and SDBP)" and "founded and directs the biennial Niagara/Miami International Conference on Evidence-based Treatments for Childhood and Adolescent Mental Health Problems (MICAMH)".

Professional Roles
Dr. Pelham has been an active member of the APA. He has been the president (1999-2000) and secretary (1995-1997) of Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the APA and a Council Representative (2002-2007) of Division 53 (Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology) of the APA. Additionally, he has been a Fellow of the Divisions 28 (Divisions of Psychopharmacology), 12, and 53. He was the Representative of Division 53 from 2001 until 2007 and was a mentor for the APA/Institute of Educational Sciences Postdoctoral Education Research Training from 2004 until 2006. For his work, Dr. Pelham was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Clinical Psychology Award (2017) by APA Division 12, the Lifetime Achievement Award (2012) by APA Division 12 Section 3 , and the Distinguished Career Award (2009) by Division 53.

Dr. Pelham has been a professor at Florida International University (received the Distinguished Florida International University Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry in 2012), State University of New York (received the SUNY Distinguished Professor in 2008 and the UB Distinguished Professor from 2004-2008), University of Pittsburgh, and Florida State University (received the Developing Scholar award from 1981-1982).

AT Florida International University, Dr. Pelham is the founder and director of the Center for Children and Families, which is an organisation that provides clinical serives for families, conducts research into adolescent mental health disorders, and educates aspiring mental health professionals.

He was elected to the CHADD Scientific Advisory Board for the 2002-2004 term and in 2002 was given the CHADD Hall of Fame Award. He was the president (1996-1997) and treasurer (1992-1995) of the International Society for Research in Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, as well as the president of the Professional Group for Attention Deficit and Related Disorders between 1994 and 1996. Dr. Pelham received the Trailblazer Award from both the Families and Parenting (2010) and ADHD (2011) special interest groups of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.