Doctor-patient interaction, especially as it relates to disclosure and management of mental health issues in pediatric primary care.

Click here for information about the Center for Interpersonal Capacity in Healthcare

Other aspects of discussing sensitive issues in primary care, including end-of-life care and advance directives and physical punishment of young children. Also interested in cross-cultural applications of these issues; populations include Latin American and American Indians.

Local radio and audio production as vehicles for youth and community development. Work with area high school students to produce audio programs about their community.

Click here for information about the Baltimore Community Radio Coalition

Click here to access student work on immigration on Public Radio Exchange (PRX)

Click here for other audio from BCRC.

Introductory course, "Integrating Social and Behavioral Theory in Public Health". Click here for syllabus for 2009.

Narrative in public health. Through a course attended mostly by MPH students, we use narrative writing skills (documentary, exploratory, persuasive) to gain a more personal link to the social and behavioral aspects of public health.

Click here to read Dr. Hasan Shihab's narrative about poverty and medicine in Uganda

Primary care, mental health, patient-doctor communication, children, physical punishment, suicide, community media, narrative as a tool in public health

1974 - 1975 Amherst Exchange Fellowship, Ecole Normale Supérieure

1982 - 1984 Andrew Mellon Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene.

1984 Board certified, pediatrics; Member, American Academy of Pediatrics

1993 - 1995 Burroughs/Wellcome Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

1995 - 1996 Sol. W. Ginsburg Fellow, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

1996 Picker/Commonwealth Finalist Award, Health Services Research

1997 Board certified, general psychiatry

1998 Board certified, child and adolescent psychiatry; Member, Am. Acad. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

2000 - 2005 Member, NIMH Services Review Committee, ZMH1 SRV-C

2001 Advising, mentoring and teaching recognition award, JHU School of Public Health

Wissow LS, Belote A, Phillips A, Kramer W, Kritzler R, Weiner J. Promoting advance directives among elderly primary

care patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2004;19:944-951.

Clayman M, Roter D, Wissow LS. Autonomy-related behaviors of patient companions and their effect on decision-making

activity. Social Science and Medicine 2005;60:1583-91.

Wissow LS, Larson S, Anderson J, Hadjiisky E. Pediatric residents’ responses that discourage discussion of psychosocial problems in primary care. Pediatrics 2005;115:1569-78.

Stibich M, Wissow LS. Meaning shift: findings from wellness acupuncture. Alternative Therapies in Health and

Medicine. 2006 Mar-Apr;12(2):42-8.

Brown JO. Wissow LS, Gadomski A, Zachary C, Bartlett E, Horn I. Parent and teacher mental health ratings of

children using primary care services: interrater agreement and implications for mental health screening. Amb

Pediatr 2006;6:347-51.

Chiu Y-C, Smith KC, Morlock L, Wissow LS. Print media and the social construction of informal payments in Taiwan.

Social Science and Medicine 2007;64:521-30.

Brown JO, Riley A, Wissow LS. Identification of youth psychosocial problems during pediatric primary care visits"

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 2007;34:269-81.

Slade EP, Wissow LS. The influence of childhood maltreatment on adolescents’ academic performance. Economics of Education Review 2007 Oct;26(5):604-614.

Liu CC, Wissow LS. The impact of “staying late” on residents’ communication with parents. Med Educ 2008;42:74-81. [with editorial comment: Hamstra et al., Medical Education 2008;42:7-9.].

Brown JD, Wissow, LS, Riley, AW. Physician and patient characteristics associated with discussion of psychosocial

health during pediatric primary care visits. Clinical Pediatrics 2007;46:812-20..

Brown JD, Wissow LS, Zachary, C, Cook, B. Receiving advice about child mental health from a primary care provider:

African American and Hispanic parent attitudes. Medical Care 2007;45:1076-82..

Platt R, Fothergill K, Wissow LS. Talking with families about adolescent mental health. Adol Med Revs 2008;19:41-53.

Salmon P, Ring A, Wissow LS, Humphris G, Carroll J. Doctors' responses to patients with medically unexplained symptoms who seek emotional support: criticism or confrontation? Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2007;29(5):454-60..

Wissow LS, Gadomski A, Roter D, Larson S, Horn I, Bartlett E, Brown J, Zachary C, Luo X, Wang M-C. A cluster-randomized trial of mental health communication skills for pediatric generalists. Pediatrics Pediatrics 2008;121:266-75.

Salmon P, Wissow L, Carroll J, Ring A, Humphris GM, Davies JC, Dowrick CF.. Doctors' attachment style and their inclination to propose somatic interventions for medically unexplained symptoms. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2008 Mar-Apr;30(2):104-11.

Kemper KJ, Foy JM, Wissow LS, Shore S. Enhancing communication skills for pediatric visits through on-line Training using video demonstrations. BMC Medical Education. 2008 Feb 11;8(1):8.

Wissow LS, Anthony B, Brown J, DosReis S, Gadomski A, Ginsburg G, Riddle M. A common factors approach to improving the mental health capacity of pediatric primary care. Admin Policy Ment Health 2008 Jul;35(4):305-18.

Brown, J.D. & Wissow, L.S. Disagreement in primary care provider and parent reports of mental health counseling. Pediatrics 2008 Dec;122(6):1204-11.

Brown JD, Wissow LS. Discussion of maternal stress during pediatric primary care visits. Ambulatory Pediatrics 2008 Nov-Dec;8(6):368-74.

Hu G, Wilcox H, Wissow LS, Baker SP. Mid-life suicide. Am J Prev Med 2008 Dec;35(6):589-93.

Brown JD, Wissow LS. Discussion of sensitive health topics with youth during primary care visits: Relationship to youth perceptions of care. Journal of Adolescent Health 2009 Jan;44(1):48-54.

Paula CS, Nakamura E, Wissow L, Bordin IA, do Nascimento R, Leite AM, Cunha A, Martin D. Primary care and children’s mental health in Brazil. Amb Pediatrics (in press).