Richard J. Shaw, M.D.

Clinical Focus

• Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Administrative Appointments

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

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

Postdoctoral Advisees

Sirirat Ularntinon

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Community & International Work

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

Web Site Links

• Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine

Research Interests

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

Publications

• 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
• Defense mechanisms in schizophrenia Shaw RJ, Geurse M, Steiner H. Personality and Mental Health. 2008: 2 240-248
• Hypnosis-provoked nonepileptic events in children. Olson DM, Howard N, Shaw RJ. Epilepsy Behav. 2008; 12 (3): 456-9
• Pediatric Transplant Rating Instrument - a scale for the pretransplant psychiatric evaluation of pediatric organ transplant recipients. Fung E, Shaw RJ. Pediatr Transplant. 2008; 12 (1): 57-66
• Factitious disorder by proxy: pediatric condition falsification. Shaw RJ, Dayal S, Hartman JK, DeMaso DR. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2008; 16 (4): 215-24