From Research to Clinical Care: 25 Years of ADHD Research and the Development of a New Practice Guideline​

Presented by William J. Barbaresi, MD

This webinar was presented live on June 3rd, 2022. Please see Professor Barbaresi’s presentation slides here. These slides are for personal use only. The contents may not be copied, reproduced or shared in any form whatsoever.

William J. Barbaresi, MD

In this session, Dr. Barbaresi will describe the findings from a 25 year-long study of the developmental trajectory and adult outcomes for children with ADHD, including a consideration of co-existing conditions that are frequently experienced by children and adolescents with ADHD.  He will also describe adult outcomes, the extent to which childhood ADHD is associated with challenges in multiple domains of adult life, as well the persistence of ADHD from childhood through adulthood.  Finally, he will consider the ways in which this research has helped to inform the development of the first-ever clinical practice guideline from the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, focused on the care of children and adolescents with complex ADHD.

Dr. Barbaresi is the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, as well as a Senior Fellow of Johannes Kepler University.  He was formerly Director of the Developmental Medicine Center and Associate Chief of the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s.  Prior to returning to Boston Children’s in 2009, he was Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Chair of the Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Mayo Clinic and Co-Director of the Mayo Clinic Dana Child Development and Learning Disorders Program.  Dr. Barbaresi’s clinical practice includes children with developmental delays, intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and learning disabilities, and behavior problems. 

Dr. Barbaresi is the former Chair of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Behavioral and Biobehavioral Subcommittee.  He is a member of the American Board of Pediatrics, and past Chair of the Sub-Board for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  He has held leadership positions in national organizations, including membership on the Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.  He co-authored a report for the National Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences on Speech and Language Disorders in Children.  Dr. Barbaresi was the Chair and primary author of the first ever national Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric practice guideline, addressing the subspecialty care of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. He has been an invited lecturer at multiple national and international meetings, as well as universities and medical centers across the US and internationally.  He was named a lifetime Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medicine at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, where he co-founded the university’s first medical research institute (Research Institute for Developmental Medicine).

Dr. Barbaresi’s research has included studies of the epidemiology of learning disorders, AD/HD and autism.  He has authored numerous original scientific manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters on these topics   His current major projects focus on the long-term outcomes and developmental trajectory of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, as well as the development of a novel structured data system for use in clinical research in Developmental Medicine.  He is the Director of Research for the national Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network (DBPNet), funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. He is also Principal Investigator on an MCHB-funded DBPNet study on the role of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule in clinical diagnosis of children with autism spectrum disorder.  At Boston Children’s Hospital, he is the Principal Investigator of the Developmental Medicine Clinical Research Laboratory.   

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