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Joe Gonzalez-Heydrich
Assistant in Psychiatry, Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

RESEARCH
Design and Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record System for Oupatient Psychiatry Programs
Computer modelling of the Neuro-endocrine system
Computer modelling of Personality Development and Psychiatric Disorders
Computer Applications in Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice
Computer environments to aide in healthy coping of families facing serious illness
Design and Implementation of a Computerized Relational Database/Electronic Medical Record in Pediatric Psychiatry Out-Patient Programs, PI
The Experience Journal: A Computer-Based Prevention Intervention For Families Facing Pediatric Illness, Co- PI
Zora: A virtual Community in the Dialysis Unit, Co-PI
Industry Sponsored Clinical Trial of an Antidepressant for Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents, Co-PI
Mining of Case Series from a Computerized Psychopharmacological Medical Record, Outcomes of Psychopharmacological treatment in "Real World Practice"
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATES
Medical Directory, Outpatient Psychiatry Programs, Children's Hospital Boston
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Medical School
CLINICAL INTERESTS
Psychiatric difficulties in Children with Neurological disorders
Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Psychiatric difficulties in Children with disorders of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary Adrenal and Gonadal axis Gender Identity Disorders
Clinical Trials in Pediatric Psychopharmacology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Using Neural Networks to Model Personality Development. Medical Hypotheses, August 1993; 41:123-30.

Gonzalez-Heydrich, J, Steingard RJ, Kohane I: A Computer Simulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, Proceedings of the Symposium for Computer Applications in Medical Care {SCAMC}, November 1994.

FUNDING HISTORY

1983: Grant from the American Heart Association, Maryland Chapter, Research Assistant under the direction of Juan Cabrera of Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, A Pilot Neuro-Epidemiological Study In One Of The Poor Areas Surrounding Lima, Peru.
12/93 and 12/94: Program for Minority Research Training in Psychiatry (PMRTP) travel fellowship to the ACNP meeting, Fellow, Computer Simulations of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis
1995-1997: APA Program for Minority Research Training in Psychiatry (PMRTP) fellowship, Research Fellow, Computer Simulations of the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis
1996-98: Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory (MERL) grant, PI, Mending Minds and Hearts Computer-Based Intervention for Pediatric Cardiac Patients and their Families
1998-99: Deborah Munroe Noonan Fund, The Medical Foundation Grant, Co-PI, The Experience Journal: A Computer Based Intervention for Families Facing Congenital Heart Disease
3/1/2000 - present: Tellabs Foundation Grant, Co-PI, The Experience Journal: A Computer-Based Prevention Intervention For Families Facing Pediatric Illness
2000: Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsored Grant, PI, Clinical Trial of Pharmacotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder in Children and Adolescents
2001: Pharmaceutical Industry Sponsored Grant, PI, Effectiveness and Tolerability of Depakote in the Treatment of Severely Aggressive Youths: A Systematic Review of Electronic Medical Records
TRAINEES
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY

Non-Print Materials:

1. DeMaso DR, Gonzalez-Heydrich J. The Experience Journal: A computer-based intervention for families facing congenital heart disease, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 2001. This web-based "narrative work" of personal experiences (stories, poems, and movies) of families seen in the hospital's Cardiovascular Program has proven beneficial both to the parents who told their story, as well as parents reading about others' experiences.

Patents:

1. Ackermann E, Bromley D, DeMaso DR, Gibson SFF, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Karlin JG, Marks J, Shen Chia, Strohecker C, inventors; Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. Method and system for displaying icons representing informational items stored in a database. European Patent 99112065.0-2201. Aug 17, 1999

2. Ackermann E, Bromley D, DeMaso DR, Gibson SFF, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Karlin JG, Marks J, Shen Chia, Strohecker C, inventors; Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. Method and system for displaying icons representing informational items stored in a database. US Patent 6,211,876. April 3, 2001

Technical Report:

1. DeMaso DR, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Dahlmeier Erickson J, Pagan Grimes V, Strohecker C. The Experience Journal: A computer-based intervention for families facing congenital heart disease. MERL Technical Report 2000-12

Original Articles

1. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Kerner JA, and Steiner H, Testing the Psychogenic Vomiting Diagnosis: Four Pediatric Patients. American Journal of Diseases of Children, August 1991; 145(8):913-916.

2. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Peroutka SJ.Post-Synaptic Localization of 5-HT1D Receptor Binding Sites in Human Caudate. Experimental Neurology, 1991; 113(1):28-30.

3. Gonzalez-Heydrich J: Using Neural Networks to Model Personality Development. Medical Hypotheses, August 1993; 41:123-30.

4. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Steingard RJ, Putnam F, Beardslee W, Kohane IS: Using "Off the Shelf" Computer Programs to Mine Additional Insights from Published Data: Diurnal Variation in Potency of ACTH Stimulation of Cortisol Secretion Revealed. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 1999, 58(3): 227-238.

5. DeMaso DR, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Dahlmeier Erickson J, Pagan Grimes V, Strohecker C, The Experience Journal: A computer-based intervention for families facing congenital heart disease. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2000, 39: 727-734.

6. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, DeMaso DR, Irwin C, Steingard RJ, Kohane IS, Beardslee WR, Implementation of an Electronic Medical Record System in a Pediatric Psychopharmacology Program. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2000, 57: 109-116.

7. Van Horn M, DeMaso DR , Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Erickson J, Illness-related Concerns of Mothers of Children with Congenital Heart Disease, Journal Of American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (In Press).

8. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Steingard RJ, Putnam F, DeBellis MD, Beardslee W, Kohane IS, CRH Increases Apparent Potency of ACTH Stimulation of Cortisol Secretion, Medical Hypothesis, (In Press)

9. Frazier, J., Biederman, J., Jacobs, TG., Tohen, MF., Toma, V., Feldman, PD., Rater, MA., Tarazi, RA., Kim, GA., Garfield, SB., Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., and Zachary MN., Olanzapine in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Juveniles. J. of Child and Adol Psychopharm, (In Press)

Proceedings of Meetings (Refereed full length articles):

1. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Bromley D, Strohecker C, Marks J, DeMaso DR, Ackermann E, Gibson S, Shen C, and Umaschi M: Experience Journals: Using Computers to Share Stories About Illness and Medical Intervention. In: Cesnik B, McCray AT, Scherrer J-R, editors. MEDINFO 98. Proceedings of the 9th World Congress on Medical Informatics, 1998 Aug 18-22, Seoul, South Korea, IOS Press, pp 1323-1327.

2. Umaschi Bers M, Ackermann E, Cassell J, Donegan B, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, DeMaso DR, Strohecker C, Lualdi S, Bromley D, and Karlin J: Interactive Storytelling Environments: Coping with Cardiac Illness at Boston's Children's Hospital, Proceedings of CHI'98, Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction Conference, April,1998, Los Angeles, CA, USA, pp 603-9.

3. Umaschi Bers M, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, and DeMaso DR: Identity Construction Environments: Supporting a Virtual Therapeutic Community of Pediatric Patients undergoing Dialysis, Proceedings of CHI'01, Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Computer-Human Interaction Conference, in press.

4. Umaschi Bers M, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Raches D, and DeMaso DR: Zora: A Pilot Virtual Community in the Pediatric Dialysis Unit, In: Cesnik B, McCray AT, Scherrer J-R, editors. MEDINFO 2001. Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Medical Informatics, 2001 Sep 2-5, London, England, IOS Press, In Press.

Reviews, Chapters and Editorials:

1. Money J, Leal J, and Gonzalez-Heydrich J. Aphrodiesiology: History, Folklore and Efficacy. In: The Pharmacology and Endocrinology of Sexual Function, Handbook of Sexology, Vol. 6. series editor Money, J., and Musaph, H., Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York/London 1988. Chapter 20, pp. 499 - 515.

2. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Peroutka SJ. Serotonin Receptor and Reuptake Sites: Pharmacologic Significance. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 1990;51(4,suppl):5-12

3. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Book Review of The Kaspar Hauser Syndrome of "Psychosocial Dwarfism": Deficient Statural, Intellectual and Social Growth Induced by Child Abuse. New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 13, 1994;331(15):1031

4. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Book Review of Child and Adolescent Depression: Clinical and Research Perspectives. New England Journal of Medicine, May 23, 1996.

5. Thiele EA, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Riviello J. Epilepsy in Children and Adolescents. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. vol 8 (4), pp 671-694, Oct 1999.

Original Abstracts (Med Line Listed):

1. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Steingard RJ, Kohane I: A Computer Simulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, Proceedings the Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care. Nov. 1994, pg 1010.

Letters to the Editor:

1. Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Alas Babylon. Psychiatric Times, Letter to the Editor, July 1992.

Abstracts (only those containing data not yet published in complete form):

1. Gonzalez, J., Whitehouse P.J., Yagaloff, K.A., Hartig, P.R.,Markus K., Kuhar M.J., Price D.L., Steele C.S., Folstein, M.F., and Powell, S.K. "Reductions of Serotonergic Receptors in Alzheimer's Disease: An Autoradiographic Study." Abstract presented at the Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, 1986.

2. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Van Maasdam, J., Gold, J., and Laub, D. R., Rates of Personality Disorders in Gender Dysphorics Using a Self Report Inventory, The MCMI-II. presented at the XIII International Symposium on Gender Dysphoria, 10/23/93, New York, NY

3. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Steingard, R. J., and Kohane, I., A Computer Simulation of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis, presented at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Meeting, San Juan, P.R., Dec. 1994

4. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Steingard, Van Maasdam, J., R. J., Shorrock, K. L., Gold, J., Zurakowski, D and Laub, D., Transsexuals: MCMI-II Severe Personality Disorder Incidence Depends on Setting and Sex. presented at the Harvard Consolidated Department of Psychiatry Research Day, 3/09/95, Boston, MA.

5. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., A Neural Network Approach to Modelling Personality Development. presented at the Dynamical Neurosciences Symposium at the Society for Neurosciences Meeting Nov. 1996

6. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Steingard, R.J., Putnam, F.W., De Bellis, M., Beardslee, W., and Kohane, I. S., Computer Modeling of Human Data Reveals CRH Increases the Potency of ACTH Effect on Cortisol and Rate of Cortisol Degradation With Differences in Sexually Abused Girls. presented at the Dynamical Neurosciences Symposium at the Society for Neurosciences Meeting Nov. 1996

7. Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., Steingard, R.J., Putnam, F.W., De Bellis, M., Beardslee, W., and Kohane, I. S., Computer Modeling of Human Data Reveals CRH Increases the Potency of ACTH Effect on Cortisol and Rate of Cortisol Degradation With Differences in Sexually Abused Girls. presented at the Harvard Consolidated Department of Psychiatry Research Day, 3/12/97, Boston, MA.

8. Bers, M; Gonzalez-Heydich, J; DeMaso, DR; Corsini, E; & Harmon, W.; Zora: A Pilot Virtual Community in the Pediatric Dialysis Unit. Pediatric Academic Societies and American Academy of Pediatrics Joint Meeting, 5/2000, Boston, Massachusetts

9. Wilens, T., Prince, J., Spencer T., Doyle R., Goldman, S., Girard, K., Monutaeux, M., Gonzalez, J., Murphy, K., Frazier, J., and Biederman, J. Bupropion SR for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults with Bipolar Disorder (BPD) and ADHD. New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) meeting, Boca Raton, FL., May 2000.

10. Frazier, J., Biederman, J., Jacobs, TG., Tohen, Mauricio, TF., Toma, V., Feldman, PD., Rater, MA., Tarazi, RA., Kim, GA., Garfield, SB., Gonzalez-Heydrich, J., and Zachary MN., Olanzapine in the Treatment of Bipolar Disorder in Juveniles. . New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) meeting, Boca Raton, FL., May 2000.

11. Gonzalez-Heydrich J., Wilens T.E., and Beardslee W., Nefazodone for Depression in Bipolar and Non-Bipolar Youth: Systematic Review of Electronic Medical Records. New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) meeting, Pheonix, AR., May 2001.

12. Cesena M., Gonzalez-Heydrich J., Kohlenberg T.M., Szigethy E., and DeMaso D.M., Risperidone Treatment For Aggressive Preschool Children: Systematic Review of Medical Records. New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) meeting, Pheonix, AR., May 2001.