John March, MD, MPH, will visit Rogers Memorial on April 23-24, 2010. Dr. March is Professor of Psychiatry and Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.

He has extensive experience developing and testing the efficacy and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological treatments for pediatric mental disorders.

Dr. March is widely published in the areas of OCD, PTSD, anxiety, depression ADHD and pediatric psychopharmacology. He has extensive experience conducting and consulting to industry in the design and implementation of Phase III and IV clinical trials in pediatric psychopharmacology.

Additionally, he is active in teaching and training in the treatment of child and adolescent mental disorders locally, nationwide and internationally.

During his visit to Rogers Memorial, Dr. March will present results of the Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Treatment Studies (POTS I and POTS II), which investigated two different cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) augmentation approaches in children and adolescents who have experienced a partial response to pharmacotherapy with a serotonin reuptake inhibitor for OCD.