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Dr. Gerring is an attending physician at Kennedy Krieger Institute and a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. She is also an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Gerring completed undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1968. She completed a pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and completed a general and child psychiatry residency at Payne Whitney Clinic/Cornell Medical Center. She is Board-Certified in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry. Dr. Gerring is the Medical Director of the Child Psychiatry Outpatient Program at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, a comprehensive program for 1700 children in East Baltimore providing a continuum of mental health services. Dr. Gerring is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is actively involved in the Maryland Regional Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is a member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Psychiatric Association.
Research Summary:
Dr. Gerring’s primary research interest relates to the psychiatric sequelae of pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury. She has published articles on anxiety disorders and Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder after TBI, describing injury, psychosocial, and neuroimaging risk factors for these disorders.
Recent Publications/Presentations:
Gerring JP, Brady KD, Chen A, Vasa R, Grados M, Bandeen-Roche KJ, Bryan RN, Denckla MB (1998), Premorbid prevalence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and development of Secondary Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder after closed head injury. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 37:647-654
Gerring JP, Slomine B, Vasa RA, Grados M, Chen A, Rising W, Christensen JR, Denckla MB, Ernst M (2002), Clinical predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder after closed head injury in children. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41(2):157-165
Herskovits EH, Gerring JP (2003), Application of a data-mining method based on Bayesian networks to lesion-deficit analysis. Neuroimage 19(4):1664-1673
Vasa RA, Grados M, Slomine B, Herskovits EH, Thompson RE, Salorio C, Christensen J, Wursta C, Riddle MA, Gerring JP (2004), Neuroimaging correlates of anxiety after pediatric traumatic brain injury. Biological Psychiatry 55(3):208-216
Slomine BS, Salorio CF, Grados M, Vasa R, Christensen J, Gerring J (2005), Attention, memory, and executive functioning in children with severe traumatic brain injury with and without ADHD after injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 11(5):645-653. | 