curriculum vitae

Randal G. Ross

 


Present              L McCarty Fairchild Professor of Child Psychiatry

Position:            Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics


Office                 University of Colorado Denver

Address:           

Department of Psychiatry
Mail Stop F546

Building 500

13001 E. 17th Place

Aurora, CO 80045

Ph: (303) 724-6203

Fax: (303) 724-6207

Email: Randy.Ross@ucdenver.edu              

EDUCATION

1983                     B.S.  University of California at Santa Barbara, graduated with highest honors

1987                     M.D. Yale University School of Medicine, graduated with honors

1987-1992           Resident in General and Child Psychiatry, University of Washington

1993-1995           Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Colorado School of Medicine

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

7/89 - 12/92:        Weekend Psychiatrist, Puget Sound Hospital, Tacoma, WA

8/90 - 10/92:        On-call psychiatrist, Seattle Children's Home, Seattle, WA

8/92 - 3/93:          Consulting psychiatrist, Children's Hospital Federal Way Clinic, Federal Way, WA

1/93 - 3/93:          Inpatient Child Psychiatry Attending, Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA

4/93 - 6/99:          Child psychiatry consultant, "Mothers with schizophrenia parent training program," University of Colorado Psychiatric Hospital, Denver, CO

9/93 - 6/95:          Instructor/fellow, division of child psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

7/94 - 6/98:          Director, Pediatric Psychopharmacology Service, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

7/95 – 6/98:         Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Denver, CO

7/95 - 10/00:        Assistant Professor, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

4/99 - 3/02           Advanced Career Research Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Denver, CO

11/00-6/05           Associate Professor, Division of Child Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

4/01-                    Executive Director, Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

4/02-                    Director of Research and Research Training, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

7/05-                    Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

1987:                    Honors for Excellence in Research:  Yale University School of Medicine

1991:                    American Association of Directors of Residency Training Charter Fellow

1995:                    Nominated, Elaine Schlosser Lewis Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, for most significant article on attention deficit disorder published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1995.

1995:                    Winner, Robinson-Cunningham Award, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, for best manuscript submitted by someone 3 or less years out of training, 1995.

1997:                    Finalist, A.E. Bennett Award, Society for Biological Psychiatry, for best manuscript by a junior investigator.

LICENSURE AND BOARD CERTIFICATION

1988                               Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners

1989                               Prescribing license, Drug Enforcement Agency

1993                     Colorado Medical License

1994                     Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Gen. Psychiatry, #39259

1994                     Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Child Psychiatry, #3799

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Biological Psychiatry

Developmental Psychopathology Research Group

International Early Psychosis Association

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Professional Associate

Society for Neuroscience

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

I. University of Colorado Health Science Center Students:

7/93-6/94             Course Co-Director (University of Colorado): Child Psychiatry (3rd year medical students)

a)      infant development and autism

b)      preschool development and oppositional defiant disorder

c)      school-age development and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

d)      early adolescent development, conduct disorder, and substance abuse

e)      late adolescent development, depression, and anorexia nervosa

7/95-6/04             Course Director (University of Colorado): Pediatric Psychopharmacology (first and second year child psychiatry residents)

7/95-present       Lecturer (University of Colorado): Child Psychiatry (third year general psychiatry residents)

                             a)      Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- Differential Diagnosis

b)         Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder -- co morbidity and treatment

c)          Childhood psychosis

9/95-6/04             Lecturer (University of Colorado):  Introduction (Social Work and Psychology Interns)

                             Introduction to Psychopharmacology

9/98-9/01             Course Co-director (University of Colorado):  Research Instruction in Psychiatry (2nd year general psychiatry residents)

9/00-9/02             Lecturer (University of Colorado): Social Work Interns

                             a)      Diagnosis and Co morbidity of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

b)         Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

9/01-present       Course Director (University of Colorado):  Research Instruction in Psychiatry (2nd year general psychiatry residents)

10/01-present     Lecturer (University of Colorado): Human Behavior (2nd year medical students)

a)          Childhood Psychopathology

4/02-present       Developed 2 new residency training programs

a)       Integrated Residency in General Psychiatry, Child-and-Adolescent Psychiatry, and Research Training—a 6-year residency program. First residents began 7/03

b)       Combined Residency in General and Child-and-Adolescent Psychiatry—a 5-year resident program. First residents began 7/05

7/02-present       Co-developed (with Michael Weissberg, MD) 2 new programs for medical students interested in psychiatry

a)       Behavioral Medicine Interest Group (monthly lecture series for 1st and 2nd year medical students)

b)       Psychiatry Scholars Program (match interested medical students with faculty to complete research projects in behavioral medicine or psychiatry for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year medical students)

9/02                     Lecturer (University of Colorado): Developmental Disabilities Core Knowledge Course (Multi-specialty trainees)

a)       The Developmental Pathway to Schizophrenia

2/03-present       Lecturer (University of Colorado): Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine Interest Groups (1st and 2nd year medical students)

                             a)      Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

                             b)      Childhood Schizophrenia

5/03                     Lecturer (University of Colorado): Psychopathology (Neuroscience Graduate Course)

                             a)      Childhood Schizophrenia

II. Invited Lectures

1/95                     Eye movements in children at-risk for schizophrenia.  University of Colorado Denver, Grand Rounds, Division of Child Psychiatry

2/95                     Eye movements in schizophrenia. University of Colorado Denver, Grand Rounds

9/97                     The developmental pathway to schizophrenia. University of Colorado Denver, Developmental Psychopathology Research Group

11/95                   Psychopharmacological treatment of ADHD.  University of Denver.

10/95-2/96           Attention Deficit Disorder in childhood, adolescence, and adults.  University of Colorado Denver.

11/95                   Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.  Denver Public Schools.

4/96                     Diagnosis and Treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.  Jefferson County Public Schools

10/96                   Attention Deficit Disorder.  University Health Talk (radio show)

11/96                   Schizophrenia Research Center Update (co-presentor). University of Colorado Denver, Grand Rounds

11/96                   Why treat ADD?  (keynote speaker), Attention Deficit Disorder Advocacy Group Annual Seminar

1/98                     Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults.  Colorado Group on Disabilities in Colleges and Universitites

1/98                     Pharmacology of [Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder] Treatment. 4th Annual Pediatric Symposium, Colorado Springs, CO

9/98                     OCD: Research Findings. Denver MHA Association Annual Symposium

9/98                     ADHD…The Big Picture.  Demystifying ADHD. (keynote speaker). Friends of the International Dyslexia Association

2/99                     Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment.  Community Lecture

2/99                     Childhood Psychosis: Diagnosis and Treatment.  (keynote speaker) Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Society annual meeting

3/99                     Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Comorbidity and Treatment.  Mental Health Association Pro Bono Educational Seminar

4/99                     Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment.  Community Lecture

5/99                     Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment. Colorado School Nurses Association Annual Meeting

7/99                     Demystifying Attention Deficit Disorder: Diagnosis and Treatment in Adults and Children

8/99                     Overlap of Schizophrenia and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children.  Aurora Mental Health Center

9/99                     Schizophrenia:  Can interventions in the school-age child prevent onset of the disorder? University of Iowa, Grand Rounds

10/99                   Schizophrenia:  Can interventions in the school-age child prevent onset of the disorder? Stanford University, Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Palo Alto, CA

1/00                     Schizophrenia:  Can interventions in the school-age child prevent onset of the disorder? University of North Carolina, Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

2/00                     The Schizophrenia Prodrome: Is Pharmacological Intervention Premature?  International Conference for Early Psychosis (Round Table Discussion headed by Barbara Cornblatt and Wolfgang Maier)

4/00                     ADD in Children and Adults. Mental Health Center of Boulder County

8/00                     Recent Research on the Developmental Pathway to Schizophrenia. Mental Health Center of Boulder County

9/00                     Lecture on ADHD recorded for use on Frontline (PBS)

11/00                   ADHD and Other Childhood Psychiatric Illnesses.  Boulder County Judges Association

1/01                     Schizophrenia:  Can interventions in the school-age child prevent onset of the disorder? University of California, Davis

/01                       The Status on Childhood Diagnosis. Boulder County Judges Association

3/01                     Diagnosis and Treatment of Cognitive Disorders in Children. Community Lecture, Denver, CO

8/01                     ADHD: Lifespan Presentation. Aspen Conference. University of Colorado Denver, Aspen, CO

10/01                   Demystifying ADHD. Community Lecture. St Anne's school. Denver, CO

11/01                   Can Intervention in the Young Child Prevent the Later Onset of Schizophrenia? Grand Rounds, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

11/01                   Perinatal Schizophrenia. Developmental Psychobiology Research Group, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

01/02                   Ethical Dilemmas in Research in Child Psychiatry. Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

02/02                   Schizophrenia:  Can interventions in the school-age child prevent onset of the disorder? University of Colorado Denver

11/02                   The Neurodevelopmental Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: What & When Brain Differences Begin to Occur. Grand Rounds. University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO

3/03                     ADHD in School-Age and Middle School Children. Community Lecture. Platteville Elementary School, Platteville, CO

3/03                     Differentiating ADHD and Bipolar Disorder in Children. Community Lecture. Cherry Creek Public Schools, Englewood, CO

4/03                     An Integrated Residency Program Combining General and Child Psychiatry with Research Training. Professors Meeting (Heads of Child Psychiatry Divisions), Santa Fe, NM

9/03                     The Developmental Pathway to Schizophrenia. Graduate Program in Developmental Psychology. University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO

10/03                   The Colorado Integrated Residency Program. Task Force on Curriculum Reform, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Miami, FL

10/03                   Understanding the Developmental Pathway to Schizophrenia: Implications for Prevention. Developmental Neuroscience Group. Denver University, Denver, CO

9/04                     Hypothesis: Perinatal Choline as a Primary Prevention Strategy for Schizophrenia. Neuroscience Group, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

9/05                     Curing Schizophrenia in the Womb: A multidisciplinary journey to a novel prevention strategy. Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

III.  Supervision and Consultations

7/93-6/94             3rd yr medical student supervision on child psychiatry cases

7/93-6/94             Clinical supervision of child psychiatry cases with R3 psychiatry residents in diagnostic and treatment team (Dx/Rx team)

7/94-6/95             Clinical supervision of R3 psychiatry residents

7/94-6/99             Consultation to R3 psychiatry residents on adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

7/94-6/00             Supervisor, Ann Olincy, MD, Assistant Professor on the use of eye movements in the study of schizophrenia.  Dr. Olincy is now independently funded in this area

7/95-6/96             Clinical supervision of Dr. Mathew Burson, a second year child psychiatry fellow, on a pediatric psychopharmacology elective

7/96-6/02             Research supervisor, Sarah Warren, a medical school graduate doing a research elective prior to and after initiating a psychiatry residency. Resulted in a first-author publication for Dr. Warren

4/97-10/00           Dissertation Committee, Kristin Brelsford, Denver University.  Completed Masters Thesis on inhibitory versus working memory neuropsychological profiles of adults with schizophrenia versus adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

7/00-7/02             Supervisor, Deanna Davalos, post-doctoral fellow, University of Colorado Denver; research area focused on neuropsychological functioning in children with and at-risk for schizophrenia, with a particular emphasis on behavioral and physiological measures of temporal processing. Dr Davalos has received a Veterans Administration Junior Career Development Award, a NARSAD Junior Investigator Award, and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University

7/00-12/00           Research Supervisor, Dianne Koczat, 3rd year general psychiatry resident, research elective.  Resulted in a first-author publication for Dr Koczat

10/00-6/03           Research Supervisor, John Schaeffer, child and adolescent psychiatry resident, research elective. Resulted in a first-author publication for Dr Schaeffer

6/01-6/03             Supervisor, Sharon Hunter, post-doctoral fellow, University of Colorado Denver; research focused on the use of eye movements to study cognitive functioning in infants vulnerable to psychosis. Dr Hunter received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and is now an Instructor at the Department of Psychiatry and the University of Colorado Denver.

7/01-12/01           Research Supervisor, Christina Whimmer, 3rd year general psychiatry resident, research elective

9/02-present       Supervisor, Carol Beresford, post-doctoral fellow, University of Colorado Denver; research area focused on clinical presentation of the school-age prodromal state for bipolar mood disorder. Dr Beresford is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver

5/03-present       Dissertation Committee, Kim Brodsky, University of Colorado at Boulder, research focuses on a comparison of neuropsychological presentation in children with ADHD versus children with schizophrenia

5/03-present       Dissertation Committee, Eunice Kim, University of Colorado at Boulder, research on effects of life stress on adolescent bipolar disorder

7/04-present       Mentor, Amanda Bowles, University of Colorado at Boulder, undergraduate research program on executive function deficits in preschool children with bipolar disorder. Ms Bowles has received 2 undergraduate research awards including a Howard Hughes Research Award

6/04-present       Supervisor, Raven Lipmanson, medical student research examining the effect of nicotine exposure on physiological responses in infants. Ms Lipmanson won the Western Student Medical Research Forum WSPR Subspecialty Award for Behavior and Development. Data was also presented at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research April 5, 2005.

7/05-present       Supervisor, Sharon Hunter, Assistant Professor. Research focuses on relationship of infant physiological measures to risk for later development of psychosis

7/05-present       Supervisor, Jonathan Kusumi, Psychiatry Resident. Research focuses on stability and functional impact of psychotic disorders in school-age children

9/05-present       Thesis Committee, Eric Neeley, University of Colorado Denver, research on the interaction between environmental stress and genetic vulnerability to stress on a7 nicotinic receptor-associated brain development in rat models.

REVIEWER

American Journal of Psychiatry

Archives of General Psychiatry

Behavioral Processes

Biological Psychiatry

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Neuroreport

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry

Psychiatry Research

Psychological Medicine

Psychophysiology

Schizophrenia Bulleting

Schizophrenia Research

COMMUNITY/NATIONAL ACTIVITIES

1995 - 1997         General Psychiatry Board Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

1995 - 2000         Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Board Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

1996                     Outside Reviewer, Merit Review and Career Development Award Committees, Veterans Administration

2000                     Member, Clinical Care Review Committee on ADHD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver

2000                     Member, Child Psychiatry Integration Committee, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver

2000                     Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Program Planning Committee, University of Colorado Denver

2000                     Program Chair, Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Society

2001-2007           Director-Elect and Director, Developmental Psychopathology Research Group, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center

2002-2003           Ad hoc member, NIH Initial Review Committee BBBP6

2002-present      Member, American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Workgroup on Curriculum Reform

2004-2005           Member, “Advanced Studies”—4th Year Medical Student Curriculum Reform Committee. School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

2004-2007           Member, Clinical and Translation Research Advisory Committee, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

2004                     Member, RCII Space Committee, University of Colorado Heath Sciences Center

2004-present      Member, NIH Initial Review Committees

2005                     Chairman, NIH Initial Review Committees (2)

2005-present      Member, Senior Investigators Workgroup, Women’s Health Research, University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center

research support

7/82-6/83             PI      University of California President’s Undergraduate Fellowship:  “Putative aspirin-induced alterations in fetal serotonin production.”

7/92-3/93             PI      University of Washington Holmes' Scholarship Award:  “Eye movements in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.”  .

7/93-4/94             PI      University of Colorado Developmental Psychopathology Research Group: “Eye movements in children of schizophrenic parents.” 

7/94-6/96             PI      National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, Junior Investigator Award:  “Physiological measures in children of schizophrenic parents.”

7/95-6/98             Training Grant (PI - Robert Freedman)      Veterans Administration:  “Postdoctoral Research in Psychiatry.”

7/97-6/99             PI      National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, Junior Investigator Award:  “Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements and Clinical Presentation in Children of Schizophrenic Parents.”

7/97-8/99             PI      National Institute of Mental Health, FIRST Award (R29): “Eye Movements: Children of Schizophrenics.”

9/97-7/98             PI      University of Colorado Biomedical Start-up Grant “The Vestibular-ocular Response in Schizophrenia."

12/98                   PI      Lilly Investigator-Initiated Award:  “Olanzapine and Eye Movements in Children with Schizophrenia.”

4/99-3/02             PI      VA Level II Career Development Award: “The genetics of eye movement abnormalities in schizophrenia.”

9/99-6/03             PI      National Institute of Mental Health, (R01): “Eye Movements: Children of Schizophrenics.”

2/01                     PI      Rockefeller Brothers Fund (Charles Culpeper Biomedical Pilot Award): "Can Physiologic Abnormalities Associated with Schizophrenia be Identified in the Perinatal Brain."

7/01-12/02           PI      Colorado Tobacco Research Program (IDEA Awards): " Tobacco and Schizophrenia Affect Prenatal Brain Development."

9/01-8/03             PI      National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders, Independent Investigator Award:  Children Identified as At-risk for Schizophrenia by Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements: Thought Disorder and Exposure to Methylphenidate.”

10/01-9/04           Co-Investigator (PI - Lisa Miller)   Center for Disease Control. "Centers for Excellence for Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities Epidemiology"

4/02-4/04             Co-Investigator (PI – Robert Freedman)   National Institute of Mental Health “Electrophysiology of Sensory Gating.”

9/02-5/04             Core Director (PI - Sally Rogers)   National Institute of Child Health Disorders (U19): "Developmental Phenotypes in Autism.

9/02-7/05             PI      National Institute of Mental Health (R21): "Perinatal Vulnerability to Schizophrenia." Direct Costs

8/03-7/08             Core Director (PI – Linda Crnic/Stephen Goodman)        National Institute of Child Health Disorders. “Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Center

1/04-12/08           PI      National Institute of Mental Health (R01): "Abnormal Eye Movement in Schizophrenia: Genome-wide Scan."

3/04-2/09             PI      National Institute of Mental Health (R01): "Childhood Physiology and Risk for Schizophrenia."

7/04-6/09             Project Director (PI – Robert Freedman) National Institute of Mental Health. Sylvia Conte Center: “Molecular Neurobiology of Schizophrenia”

11/06-10/07         Working Group Director (PI—Mark Geraci). “Colorado CTSA Planning Grant”

7/07-6/11             PI      National Institute of Mental Health (T32). “Development of Maladaptive Behavior. Year 30

9/07-8/12             PI      National Institute of Mental Health (R25). “Training Medical Students to be Research Child Psychiatrists”

PUBLICATIONS

(starred * authors are trainees)

Peer reviewed articles

1.          Tallal P, Ross RG, Curtiss S.  Familial aggregation in specific language impairment.  Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 54, 167-173 (1989).

2.          Tallal P, Ross RG, Curtiss S.  Unexpected sex ratios in families of language/learning impaired children.  Neuropsychologia, 27, 987-998 (1989).

3.          Ross RG, Ward,N.  Bromocriptine abuse.  Biological Psychiatry, 31, 404-406 (1992).

4.          Ross RG.,  Radant, AD., and Hommer, DW.  A developmental study of smooth pursuit eye movements in normal children from 7 to 15 years of age.  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 32, 783-791 (1993).

5.          Ross RG,  Radant AD, Young DA, Hommer DW.  Saccadic eye movements in normal children from 8 to 15 years of age:  A developmental study of visuo-spatial attention.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 24, 413-431 (1994).

6.          Ross RG,  Radant AD, Hommer DW.  Open- and closed-loop smooth pursuit eye movements in normal children:  Analyses of a step-ramp task.  Developmental Neuropsychology, 10, 255-264 (1994).

7.          Ross RG, Hommer DW, Breiger D, Varley C., Radant AD.  Eye movement task related to frontal lobe functioning in children with Attention Deficit Disorder.  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 869-874 (1994).

8.          Ross RG, Hommer DW, Radant AD, Roath M, Freedman RF.  Early expression of smooth pursuit eye movement abnormalities in children of schizophrenic parents.  Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 35, 941-949 (1996).

9.          *Olincy A, Ross RG, Young DA, Roath M, Freedman R.  Improvement in smooth pursuit eye movements after cigarette smoking in schizophrenic patients.  Neuropsychopharmacology, 18, 175-185 (1998).

10.            *Olincy A, Ross RG, Young DA, Freedman R. Age diminishes performance on an antisaccadic task related to frontal lobe function.  Neurobiology of Aging, 18, 483-489 (1997).

11.            Ross RG, Harris JG, *Olincy A, Radant AD, Adler LE, Freedman R. Familial transmission of two independent saccadic deficits in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research, 30, 59-70 (1998).

12.            Ross RG, *Olincy A, Harris JG, Radant A, Adler LE, Freedman R.  Anticipatory saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements and familial transmission of schizophrenia.  Biological Psychiatry, 8, 690-697 (1998).

13.            Ross RG, *Olincy A, Harris JG, Radant A, Hawkins M, Adler LE, Freedman R.  Evidence for bilineal inheritance of physiological indicators of risk in childhood-onset schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 88, 188-199 (1999).

14.            *Warren S, Ross RG.  Deficient cancellation of the vestibular ocular reflex in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 34, 187-193, 1998.

15.            Ross RG, *Olincy A, Radant A. Amplitude criteria and anticipatory saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements in schizophrenia Psychophysiology, 36, 464-468, 1999.

16.            Ross RG, *Olincy A, Harris JG, Radant A, Adler LE, Compagnon N, Freedman R. The effects of age on a smooth pursuit tracking task in adults with schizophrenia and normals. Biological Psychiatry, 46, 383-391, 1999.

17.            Adler LE, Freedman R, Ross RG, Olincy A, Waldo MC,.  Elementary phenotypes in the neurobiological and genetic study of schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 46, 8-18, 1999.

18.            Waldo M, Adler LE, Leonard S, Olincy A, Ross RG, Harris JG, Freedman R.  Familial transmission of risk factors in schizophrenia.  Biological Psychiatry, 47, 231-239, 2000.

19.            Freedman R, Adams C, Adler LE, Bickford PC, Gault J, Harris JG, Olincy A, Ross RG, Stevens K, Waldo M, Leonard S.  An inhibitory neurophysiological deficit as a phenotype for genetic investigation of schizophrenia. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 97, 58-64, 2000.

20.            Olincy A, Ross RG, Harris JG, Cawthra E, McRae KA, Sullivan B, Adler LE, Freedman R.  The P50 auditory event evoked potential in adult attention deficit disorder: comparison with schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry, 47, 969-977, 2000.

21.            Ross RG, Olincy A, Harris JG, Sullivan B, Radant A. Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements in Schizophrenia and Attentional Dysfunction: Adults with schizophrenia, ADHD, and a normal comparison group. Biological Psychiatry 48, 197-203, 2000.

22.            Leonard S, Breese C, Adams C, Khalid B, Gault J, Stevens K, Lee M, Adler L, Olincy A, Ross R, Freedman R.  Smoking and schizophrenia: Abnormal nicotinic receptor expression. European Journal of Pharmacology, 393, 237-242, 2000.

23.            Ross RG, Compagnon N. Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Children with a Schizophrenic Parent.  Schizophrenia Research, 50(1-2), 123-131, 2001.

24.            Ross RG, Harris JG, Olincy A, Radant A. Eye movement task measures inhibition and spatial working memory in adults with schizophrenia, ADHD, and a normal comparison group. Psychiatry Research 95, 35-42, 2000.

25.            Buervenich S, Carmine A, Arvidsson M, Xiang F, Zhiping Z, Sydow O, Jonsson EG, Sedvall GC, Leonard S, Ross RG, Freedman R, Perlmann T, Anvret M, Olson L.  NURR1 mutations in schizophrenia and manic depressive disorder. American Journal of Medical Genetics: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 96, 808-813, 2000.

26.            Ross RG, Olincy A, Zerbe G, Radant A. Which Duration of Post-Saccadic Slowing Identifies Anticipatory Saccades During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements? Psychophysiology 38, 325-333, 2001.

27.            *Olincy A, Johnson LL, Ross RG.  Differential effects of cigarette smoking on a smooth pursuit and a saccadic eye movement task in schizophrenia Psychiatry Research 117, 223-236, 2003.

28.            *Koczat DL, Rogers SJ, Pennington BF, Ross RG. Eye movement abnormality suggestive of a spatial working memory deficit is present in parents of autistic probands. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 32, 515-520, 2002.

29.            *Schaeffer J, Ross RG. Childhood-onset schizophrenia: premorbid and prodromal diagnostic and treatment histories. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41, 538-545, 2002.

30.            Freedman R, Adler, LE, Olincy, A, Waldo, MC, Ross RG, Stevens KE, Leonard S. Input dysfunction, schizotypy, and genetic models of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 54, 25-32, 2002.

31.            *Davalos DB, Kisley M, Ross RG. Deficits in auditory and visual temporal perception in schizophrenia. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry , 7(4), 273-282, 2002.

32.            Leonard S, Adler LE, Benhammou K, Berger R, Breese CR, Drebing C, Gault J, Lee MJ, Logel J, Olincy A, Ross RG, Stevens K, Sullivan B, Vianzon R, Virnich DE, Waldo M, Walton K, Freedman R. Smoking and Mental Illness. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 70, 561-570, 2001.

33.            Leonard S, Gault J, Hopkins J, Logel J, Vianzon R, Short M, Drebing C, Berger G, Olincy A, Ross RG, Adler LE, Freedman R. Promotor variants in the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit gene are associated with an inhibitory deficit found in schizophrenia. Archives of General Psychiatry, 59(12), 1085-90, 2002.

34.            *Ross RG, Olincy A, Mikulich SK, Radant AD, Harris JG, Waldo M, Compagnon N, Heinlein S, Leonard S, Zerbe GO, Adler L, Freedman R. Admixture analysis of smooth pursuit eye movements in probands with schizophrenia and their relatives suggests gain and leading saccades are potential endophenotypes. Psychophysiology, 39, 809-819, 2002.

35.            Tanabe J, Tregellas J, Miller D, Ross RG, Freedman R. Brain activation during smooth pursuit eye movements. Neuroimage, 17(3), 1315-24, 2002.

36.            Kisley MA, Polk SD, Ross RG, Levisohn PM, Freedman R. Early postnatal development of sensory gating. Neuroreport 14(5): 693-697, 2003.

37.            Ross RG. Early expression of a pathophysiological feature of schizophrenia: Saccadic intrusions into smooth pursuit eye movements in school-age children vulnerable to schizophrenia. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42(4), 468-476, 2003.

38.            *Davalos DB, Kisley MA, Ross RG. Effects of interval duration on temporal processing in schizophrenia. Brain and Cognition, 52(3), 295-301, 2003.

39.            Gault J, Hopkins J, Berger R, Drebing, C, Logel J, Walton K, Short M, Vianzon R, Olincy A, Ross RG, Adler LE, Freedman R, Leonard S. Comparison of polymorphism in the α7 nicotinic receptor gene cluster in schizophrenic and control subjects American Journal of Medical Genetics. 123B(1), 39-44, 2003.

40.            Ross RG, Novins D, Farley GK, Adler LE. A one-year open-label trial of olanzapine in school-age children with schizophrenia. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 13(3), 301-309, 2003.

41.            *Davalos DB, Compagnon N, Heinlein S, Ross RG. Neuropsychological deficits in children associated with increased familial risk for schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research, 67(2), 123-130, 2004.

42.            *Davalos DB, Kisley MA, Polk S, Ross RG, Freedman, R. Mismatch negativity in detection of deviant auditory interstimulus intervals in schizophrenia. Neuroreport, 14(9), 1283-6, 2003.

43.            Tregellas JR, Tanabe JL, Miller DE, Ross RG, Olincy A, Freedman R. Neurobiology of smooth pursuit eye movements deficits in schizophrenia: An fMRI study. The American Journal of Psychiatry 161(2), 315-321, 2004.

44.            Ross RG, *Schaeffer J, Compagnon N, Heinlein S, *Beresford C, Farley G. Creating School-age versions of semistructured interviews for the prodrome to schizophrenia: Lessons from case reviews. Schizophrenia Bulletin 29(4), 729-736, 2003.

45.            Freedman F, Olincy A, Ross RG, Waldo MC, Stevens KE, Adler LE, Leonard S. The genetics of sensory gating deficits in schizophrenia. Current Psychiatry Reports 5(2), 155-61, 2003

46.            *Beresford C, *Hepburn, S. Ross RG.  Schizophrenia in preschool children: 2 case reports with longitudinal follow-up for 5.92 and 8.6 Years. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 10(3), 429-439, 2005.

47.            Ross RG, Heinlein S, Zerbe GO, Radant A. Saccadic eye movement deficit identifies cognitive deficits in children with schizophrenia, but not in unaffected child relatives. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry  46(12), 1354-1362, 2005.

48.            Adler LE, Olincy A, Cawthra EM, McRae KA, Harris JG, Nagamoto HT, Waldo MC, Hall MH, Bowles A, Woodward L, Ross RG, Freedman R. Varied effects of atypical neuroleptics on P50 auditory gating in schizophrenia patients. American Journal of Psychiatry 161(10),1822-8, 2004

49.            Freedman R, Ross RG, Leonard S, Worsley M, Adams C, Waldo M, Tregellas J, Martin L, Olincy A, Tanabe, J, Kisley M, Hunter S, Stevens K. Early biomarkers of psychosis. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 7, 17-29, 2005

50.            Mexal S, Frank M, Adams CE, Berger R, Ross RG, Freedman R, and Leonard S. Differential modulation of gene expression in the NMDA postsynaptic