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Dr. Pavuluri is an associate professor in Child Psychiatry
and the Founding Director of the nationally recognized Pediatric Mood Disorders
Clinic and Pediatric Bipolar Research Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
This is the first university-based research and clinical model of its kind in Chicago
and the state of Illinois.
Dr. Pavuluri holds her basic medical degree from India, and she also holds an Australian
and American Board Certification in General Psychiatry and a PhD from Otago University.
Her thesis on preschool psychopathology won her the Dawn Short Trust National prize
from the Royal Australasian College. She is also listed as one of the ‘Top Psychiatrists
of America’ by the Consumer’s Research Council. She became a Fellow of Royal Australian
and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) in 1992.
She has published in peer reviewed journals on topics such as preschool psychopathology,
measurement of symptoms, cognitive behavior therapy, and biological causes and treatment
of bipolar disorder. She reviews several journals, including the Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP) and is the Editor in
Chief of Contemporary Psychiatry.
Dr. Pavuluri has obtained several grants, one of which is a K23 award from NIH looking
at fMRI outcome in clinical trials in pediatric bipolar disorder. Her main area
of interest is looking at the effect of affect dysregulation on neurocognitive function
in pediatric bipolar disorder and the differentiation of it from ADHD.
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