Date: April 11, 2008

Time: Noon to 1:00

Title: "Multimodal Treatment Studies for Children with ADHD"

Speaker: Lily Hechtman, MD, FRCP
McGill University

About the Speaker:
Dr. Lily Hechtman is a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at McGill University and director of ADHD research in the division of child psychiatry.  She is a child psychiatrist and an internationally recognized researcher in ADHD.

Dr. Hechtman’s research has focused on long-term (15 year) prospective studies of children with ADHD followed into adolescence and adulthood.  Outcomes and factors, which influence these outcomes are summarized in: Weiss, G, Hechtman, L: Hyperactive Children Grown Up, second edition, Guilford Press, 1993.

Drs. Hechtman and Abikoff conducted the first controlled multimodal treatment study on children with ADHD.  This study set the stage for the multisite multimodal treatment study (The MTA).  Dr. Hechtman heads one of the sites for the MTA.

Recently, Dr. Hechtman has focused on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with ADHD.  This work is outlined in: Weiss, M, Hechtman, L, Weiss, G: ADHD in Adulthood – A Guide to Current Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment.  The John Hopkins Press, 1999.

Dr. Hechtman was honored by U.S. children and adults with ADHD (CHADD) for “outstanding professional achievement in medicine, education, and research on attention disorders”.  In 2005, she also received the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry award for ADHD research and the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry advocacy award.

In summary, Dr. Hechtman combines a rigorous research background with extensive clinical expertise and experience.

Where:  Waisman Conference Center
Room T216, Second Floor, North Tower

For Further Information: Contact Teresa Palumbo at 263-5837 or
palumbo@waisman.wisc.edu

The Waisman Center Seminar Series is partially funded by the Friends of the Waisman Center and NIH grant P30 HD003352.