My participation in research has spanned four decades extending back to the mid 1960's when I was Research Associate in the Department of Pathology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA.. Durnign this period Richard L. Naeye, Professor and Chair of the Department and I worked on several topic(s) surrounding the general area of vital fetal organ growth and development in mal and undernourished pregnancies. This interest led me to the School of Hygiene and Public Health and the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the early 1970's. After completing my graduate studies in public health, I became associated with Dr. David Paige, Professor of Maternal and Child Health. Our research at that time focused upon the problem of lactose intolerance in black children. In the 1980's my research interests took still another direction and I became engaged in MCH program evaluation; particularly in the area of evaluating the then in vogue Alternative Birthing Centers or ABC's. Towards the close of the decade I took still another direction and devoted my research skills and knowledge to the assessment of the functional ability and program service needs of children with specail health card needs. My interest in this special population of disabled children continues to this time. Currently I am involved in curriculum development for public health graduate students interested in children with special needs. This work has led me to work directly with Robin Chernoff MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics; Dr. Henry Ireys, Assistant Professor, Maternal and Child Health; Linda Grossman MD, Department of pediatrics, University of Maryland and Michael Chapman, Director of Education, the Kennedy/Krieger Institute for Handicapped Children. These interests and work areas with special needs children have resulted in various Board of Director Appointments in the private and public sectors including the MD/DC Affiliate International Association of Infant Mental Health, Parents and Children Together, Inc. (PACT, Inc.), and the Baltimore commission on cooupational Medicine, Health and Safety, Mayor's Advisory Board on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Population and Family Health Sciences, Maternal and Child Health

Masters of Health Science

Masters Program Curriculum Development

Special Needs Children

Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Delta Omega Honor Society, 1999.

Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Heritage Award, 1998.

Department of Maternal and Child Health Alumni Award, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1992.

Lebanon Valley College Alumni Association Citation Award, Lebanon Valley College, 1987.

President, Maryland/Washington D.C. Chapter, International Association for Infant Mental Health, 1987-1988.

Wilcox, L.S., Strobino, D.M., Baruffi, G., and Dellinger, W.S.: An Examination of the Use of Episiotomy and Its Roe in Incidence of Perineal Lacerations in a Maternity Center and a Tertiary Hospital Obstetrical Service. Accepted for publication: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 160: 1047-1052,1989.

Strobino, D.M., Baruffi, G., Dellinger, Jr., W.S., and Ross, A.: Variations in pregnancy outcomes and use of obstetric procedures in two institutions with divergent philosophies of maternal care. Medical Care, 26: 333-347, 1988 (April).

Baruffi, G., Dellinger, W., Jr., Strobino, D.M., Rudolf, A., Timmons, R.Y., Ross, A.: Patterns of obstetric procedures use in maternity care. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 64(4):493-498, 1984.

Baruffi, G., Dellinger, W.S., Jr., Strobino, D.M., Rudolf, A., Timmons, R.Y., Ross, A.: A study of pregnancy outcomes in a maternity center and a tertiary care hospital. American Journal of Public Health, 74(9):973-978, 1984.

Baruffi, G., Strobino, D.M. and Dellinger, W.S., Jr.: Definitions of high risk in pregnancy and evaluation of their reductive validity. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 148(6):781-86, 1984.

Paige, D.M., Davis, L., Bayless, T.M., Mellits, E.D., Dellinger, Jr., W.S., M. Kreitner: "The Effects of Age and Lactose Tolerance on Blood Glucose Rise with Whole Cow and Lactose Hydrolyzed Milk." Agricultural and Food Chemistry 27(4):677-680, 1979.

Paige, D.M., Bayless, T.M. and W.S. Dellinger: The Relationship of Milk Consumption to Blood Glucose Rise in Lactose Intolerance Individuals. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 28:677-680, July, 1975.

Naeye, R.L. and W.S. Dellinger: Coal Workers' Pneumoconioses Correlation of Radiologic and Postmortem Findings. J.A.M.A. 220:223-227, 1972.

Naeye, R.L. and W.S. Dellinger: Pulmonary Arterial Changes with Age and Smoking. Arch. Path. 92:284-288, 1971.

Naeye, R.L. and W.S. Dellinger and W.A. Blanc: Fetal and Maternal Features of Antenatal Bacterial Infection. J. Pediatrics 79:733-739 (1971).

Naeye, R.L., J.K. Mahon and W.S. Dellinger: Rank of Coal and Coal Workers' Pneumoconioses. Am. Rev. Resp. Dis. 103:350-355 (1971).

Naeye, R.L., and W.S. Dellinger: Lung Disease in Appalachian Coal Miners. Am. J. Path. 58:557-564 (1970).

Naeye, R.L., M.M. Diener, W.S. Dellinger and W.A. Blanc: Urban Poverty Effects on Prenatal Nutrition. Science. 166:1026 (1969).

Ireys, Henry: Children with Special Health Care Needs: Evaluating Their Needs and Relevant Service Structures. Background paper commissioned by the Institute of Medicine. November 1994.

Dundes, Lauren: The evolution of maternal birth position. American Journal of Public Health. 77(5): 636-641, 1987 (Acknowledgement)

Paige, D.M., Bayless, T.M., Mellits, E.D., and L. Davis: Lactose Malabsorption in Preschool Black Children. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 30:1018-1022, 1977.

Harcke, Howard R., R.L. Naeye and Alan Storch: Perinatal Cerebral Intraventricular Hemorrhage. J. Pediatrics 80:37-42, January, 1972.

Naeye, R.L. and W.A. Blanc: Fetal renal structures and the genesis of amniotic fluid disorders. Am. J. Pathol. 67:95-108, 1972.

Naeye, R.L., Leslie Burt, David Wright, William A. Blanc and Dorothy Tatter: Neonatal Mortality: The male disadvantage. Pediatrics 48(6):902-906, 1971.

Naeye, R.L. and W.A. Laqueur: Chronic Cor Pulmonale: Its Pathogenesis in Appalachian Bituminous Coal Workers. Arch. Path. 90:487-493, December, 1970.

Naeye, R.L. and W. Blanc: Poverty, Race and Antenatal Infection. New England Journal of Medicine 283:11, 555-560. (1970).