Yael Dvir, M.D. is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Community Healthlink. In
addition to being the Co-Director for the Medical Student Clerkship in Psychiatry and
faculty advisor for the medical student Psychiatry Interest Group at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School, she conducts research through the UMMS Child and Adolescent
NeuroDevelopment Initiative (CANDI). Her research and clinical interests include the
association between childhood trauma and mood disorders, childhood psychosis, the
associations between childhood psychosis and Autistic Spectrum Disorders, and medical
education. She is currently pursuing a pilot fMRI study which examines Amygdala Response
to Threat Related Facial Expression in Youth with Trauma, Bipolar Disorder and Affective
Dysregulation. The project received funding through a UMMS Faculty Scholar Award.

Articles

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Parenting and Mental Illness: A Group for Mothers, Frontiers in Psychiatry (2012)
 

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An assessment of satisfaction with ambulatory child psychiatry consultation services to primary care providers by parents of children with emotional and behavioral needs: the Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project University of Massachusetts Parent Satisfaction Study (with Melodie Wenz-Gross, Mary Jeffers-Terry, and Peter Metz), Frontiers in psychiatry / Frontiers Research Foundation (2012)
 

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Survey of threats and assaults by patients on psychiatry residents (with Emiko Moniwa, Holly Crisp-Han, Dana Levy, and John H. Coverdale), Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2012)
 

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Autism and Schizophrenia (with Jean A. Frazier), Psychiatric Times (2011)
 

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Book Review: "Clinical Manual for Management of Bipolar Disorder in Children and Adolescents", Psychiatric Services (2009)
 

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Contributions to Books

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Autistic Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia (with Vishal Madaan, Lauren Yakutis, Jean A. Frazier, and Daniel R. Wilson), Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I (2011)
 

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Early Onset Schizophrenia (with Vishal Madaan, Durga Prasad Bestha, and Daniel R. Wilson), Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II (2011)
 

Presentations and Posters

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Mood Disorders and Trauma: What are the Associations? (with Michael Hill, Steven M. Hodge, and Jean A. Frazier), Clinical and Translational Science Research Retreat (2012)
 

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Mood Disorders and Trauma – What are the Associations? (with Michael Hill and Jean A. Frazier), American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting (2011)
 

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Mood Disorders and Trauma – What are the Associations? Future Directions (with Michael Hill and Jean A. Frazier), UMass Department of Psychiatry Research Day (2010)
 

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Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Project (MCPAP) University of Massachusetts (UMass) Parent Satisfaction Study (with Melodie Wenz-Gross, Mary Jeffers-Terry, and Peter Metz), American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Annual Meeting (2009)
 

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Survey of Threats and Assaults by Patients on Psychiatry Residents (with Holly Crisp-Han, Emiko Moniwa, and Dana Levy), UMass Department of Psychiatry Research Day (2009)