Richard J. Shaw, M.D.

Clinical Focus

• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Forensic Psychiatry
• Medically Ill Patients
• Psychiatry

Administrative Appointments

• Medical Director, Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine Service, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (1996 - 2010)
• Faculty Member, Center for Psychiatry and the Law, Stanford University School of Medicine (2003 - 2010)
• Editorial Board, Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2005 - 2010)
• Editorial Board, Psychosomatics (2010 - 2009)
• Editorial Board, Academic Psychiatry (2010 - 2010)

Honors and Awards

• Diplomate, Adult Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1991)
• Diplomate, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1993)
• Award for Excellence in Teaching, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine. (2001)
• Award for Excellence in Teaching, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine (2004)
• Award for Excellence in Teaching, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine (2007)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Community and International Work

• Committee on the Physically Ill Child 
• Expert Witness, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation 
• Task Force Member, Sex Offender Management Work Group 

Internet Links

• Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine

Current Research Interests

Psychological issues in medically ill children.
Medical posttraumatic stress disorder.
Treatment adherence.
Transplant psychiatry.
Pediatric oncology.
Forensic psychiatry.

Clinical Trials

• Prevention of Postpartum Traumatic Stress (PTSD) in Mothers with Preterm Infants. Not yet recruiting

Publications

• Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine Shaw RJ, DeMaso DR. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.. 2010
• Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine: Mental Health Consultation with Physically Ill Children and Adolescents Shaw RJ, DeMaso DR. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.. 2006
• Brief cognitive-behavioral intervention for maternal depression and trauma in the neonatal intensive care unit: a pilot study. Bernard RS, Williams SE, Storfer-Isser A, Rhine W, Horwitz SM, Koopman C, Shaw RJ. J Trauma Stress. 2011; 24 (2): 230-4
• Inter-rater reliability of the Pediatric Transplant Rating Instrument (P-TRI): challenges to reliably identifying adherence risk factors during pediatric pre-transplant evaluations. Fisher M, Storfer-Isser A, Shaw RJ, Bernard RS, Drury S, Ularntinon S, Horwitz SM. Pediatr Transplant. 2011; 15 (2): 142-7
• Concurrent treatment of steroid-related mood and psychotic symptoms with risperidone. Ularntinon S, Tzuang D, Dahl G, Shaw RJ. Pediatrics. 2010; 125 (5): e1241-5