David R. DeMaso, MD
Director, Office of Clinician Support; Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
George P Gardner & Olga E Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry & Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
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David R. DeMaso, MD
Director, Office of Clinician Support; Senior Attending Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
George P Gardner & Olga E Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry & Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Medical Services
Languages
English
Education
Medical School
University of Michigan Medical School
1975
Ann Arbor
MI
Internship
Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
1976
Boston
MA
Residency
General Psychiatry
Duke University Medical Center
1978
Durham
NC
Residency
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Boston Children’s Hospital/Judge Baker Guidance Center
1980
Boston
MA
Fellowship
Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Boston Children's Hospital
1981
Boston
MA
Media
Experience Journals
Collections of stories, videos, and personal experiences from families about what it has been like to live with their children’s illnesses.
Building Bridges
Building Bridges of Understanding
Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry)
Professional History
Dr. DeMaso is George P. Gardner & Olga E. Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School and former Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). Dr. DeMaso currently directs BCH’s Office of Clinician Support (OCS). The OCS, which he founded, is designed to provide a safe alternative communication channel for all hospital clinicians to help address a wide range of professional and personal issues. Since the launch of the OCS, this innovative health and wellness program has provided over 5,000 individual clinician consultations and has reached over 15,000 clinicians through its group support program.
For over 40 years, Dr. DeMaso served as the psychiatric consultant to BCH’s Department of Cardiology where he has provided assessment and management services to youth with pediatric cardiac diseases, advancing a unique sub-specialty within child and adolescent psychiatry. Prior to becoming Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Dr. DeMaso directed BCH’s Pediatric Consultation Service, one of the country’s premier pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry services. Dr. DeMaso has authored two textbooks on pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, built an educational website for families facing pediatric illnesses (Experience Journal), and has been recognized nationally by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Simon Wile Leadership in Consultation Award, Catcher in the Rye Award, Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression/Suicide (Experience Journal), and Distinguished Life Fellow.
As Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Dr. DeMaso and his team expanded BCH’s behavioral health care continuum through increasing availability of intensive and outpatient psychiatric services as well as creating innovative collaborations with other departments/divisions, pediatric primary care practices, community partners, and families. These initiatives included educational and clinical programs in school settings (BCH’s Neighborhood Partnership Program and BCH’s Training and Access Project) and in pediatric primary care (Behavioral Health Integration Program in the Pediatric Physician’s Organization at Children’s and Massachusetts Child Psychiatry Access Program). Together with his colleagues, Dr. DeMaso is currently working to disseminate and measure outcomes of Building Bridges of Understanding, an online behavioral health education resource for pediatric primary care practitioners, mental health clinicians working in pediatric primary care, and pediatric patients and their families.
Approach to Care
My professional life has been guided by the time-honored maxim for psychiatric consultants – “Be available, be understandable, and be practical.”
Publications
How Surgeons and Surgical Leaders Manage Complications, Medical Errors, Malpractice, and Second Victim Syndrome. View Abstract
Elexacaftor/Tezacaftor/Ivacaftor Treatment and Depression-related Events. View Abstract
Efficacy of a digital mental health intervention embedded in routine care compared with treatment as usual in adolescents and young adults with moderate depressive symptoms: protocol for randomised controlled trial. View Abstract
Feasibility and Caregiver Receptiveness to Anxiety Screening in Pediatric Cardiology Clinic: A Pilot Study. View Abstract
Clinical Update: Collaborative Mental Health Care for Children and Adolescents in Pediatric Primary Care. View Abstract
Five-Phase Replication of Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care. View Abstract
Performance on the ROCF at 8 Years Predicts Academic Achievement at 16 Years in Individuals with Dextro-Transposition of the Great Arteries. View Abstract
Five-Year Outcomes of Behavioral Health Integration in Pediatric Primary Care. View Abstract
Three-Year Outcomes of a School-Hospital Partnership Providing Multitiered Mental Health Services in Urban Schools. View Abstract
Visual-spatial processing style is associated with psychopathology in adolescents with critical congenital heart disease. View Abstract
Longitudinal Associations between Neurodevelopment and Psychosocial Health Status in Patients with Repaired D-Transposition of the Great Arteries. View Abstract
Fostering the initiation of discretionary psychotropic medication reviews by child welfare caseworkers View Abstract
Enhancing Pediatricians' Behavioral Health Competencies Through Child Psychiatry Consultation and Education. View Abstract
Integrated Behavioral Health Care in Pediatric Subspecialty Clinics. View Abstract
Psychiatric Disorders and Function in Adolescents with Tetralogy of Fallot. View Abstract
Visuospatial processing in adolescents with critical congenital heart disease: Organization, integration, and implications for academic achievement. View Abstract
Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescents With Single Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease. View Abstract
Effect of Psychotherapy on Health Care Utilization in Children With Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Depression. View Abstract
Early-Term Birth in Single-Ventricle Congenital Heart Disease After the Fontan Procedure: Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Outcomes. View Abstract
Practice Patterns Revisited in Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine. View Abstract
Processing speed, executive function, and academic achievement in children with dextro-transposition of the great arteries: Testing a longitudinal developmental cascade model. View Abstract
O-017 YI Inflammatory Versus Non-inflammatory Predictors of Specific Depressive Symptoms in a Large Pediatric Cohort with IBD. View Abstract
Neuropsychological Status and Structural Brain Imaging in Adolescents With Single Ventricle Who Underwent the Fontan Procedure. View Abstract
Effect of 2 psychotherapies on depression and disease activity in pediatric Crohn's disease. View Abstract
Self-cathing experience journal: Enhancing the patient and family experience in clean intermittent catheterization. View Abstract
Executive Function in Children and Adolescents with Critical Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease. View Abstract
Predictors of health-related quality of life in adolescents with tetralogy of Fallot. View Abstract
White matter microstructure and cognition in adolescents with congenital heart disease. View Abstract
Predictors of abdominal pain in depressed pediatric inflammatory bowel disease patients. View Abstract
Psychiatric disorders and function in adolescents with d-transposition of the great arteries. View Abstract
Response. View Abstract
Randomized efficacy trial of two psychotherapies for depression in youth with inflammatory bowel disease. View Abstract
Predictors of depression in youth with Crohn disease. View Abstract
Depression subtypes in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. View Abstract
Psychiatric functioning and quality of life in young patients with cardiac rhythm devices. View Abstract
Adolescents with tetralogy of Fallot: neuropsychological assessment and structural brain imaging. View Abstract
Quality of life and parental adjustment in pediatric pulmonary hypertension. View Abstract
Promoting coping in children facing pediatric surgery. View Abstract
Enhancing working relationships between parents and surgeons. View Abstract
Parent and young adult satisfaction with psychiatry consultation services in a children's hospital. View Abstract
Adolescents with D-transposition of the great arteries repaired in early infancy demonstrate reduced white matter microstructure associated with clinical risk factors. View Abstract
Promoting scholarship during child and adolescent psychiatry residency. View Abstract
Longitudinal results of cognitive behavioral treatment for youths with inflammatory bowel disease and depressive symptoms. View Abstract
Implementing a global child mental health observership program in a children's hospital: lessons learned. View Abstract
Using the Children's Depression Inventory in youth with inflammatory bowel disease: support for a physical illness-related factor. View Abstract
Adolescents with d-transposition of the great arteries corrected with the arterial switch procedure: neuropsychological assessment and structural brain imaging. View Abstract
Psychiatric concerns in pediatric epilepsy. View Abstract
A competency-based model for research training during psychiatry residency. View Abstract
Family functioning and posttraumatic stress symptoms in youth and their parents after unintentional pediatric injury. View Abstract
Adaptive phase I study of OROS methylphenidate treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with epilepsy. View Abstract
Psychiatric concerns in pediatric epilepsy. View Abstract
Use of a virtual community as a psychosocial support system in pediatric transplantation. View Abstract
Textbook of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine View Abstract
Psychiatry morbidity and mortality rounds: implementation and impact. View Abstract
Practice parameter for the psychiatric assessment and management of physically ill children and adolescents. View Abstract
Profile of depression in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: implications for treatment. View Abstract
Psychological and quality-of-life issues in the young patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. View Abstract
A doubtful guest: managed care and mental health. View Abstract
Factitious disorder by proxy: pediatric condition falsification. View Abstract
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and subsyndromal depression. View Abstract
Tolerability of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in thirty-nine children under age seven: a retrospective chart review. View Abstract
Psychiatric disorders and behavioral characteristics of pediatric patients with both epilepsy and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. View Abstract
Prospective open-label pilot trial of mirtazapine in children and adolescents with social phobia. View Abstract
Parenting stress and parental post-traumatic stress disorder in families after pediatric heart transplantation. View Abstract
Case study: longitudinal treatment of adolescents with depression and inflammatory bowel disease. View Abstract
Depression experience journal: a computer-based intervention for families facing childhood depression. View Abstract
Clinical Manual of Pediatric Psychosomatic Medicine. Mental Health Consultation With Physically Ill Children and Adolescents View Abstract
Cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: a pilot study. View Abstract
The longitudinal impact of psychological functioning, medical severity, and family functioning in pediatric heart transplantation. View Abstract
Psychosocial factors and quality of life in children and adolescents with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators. View Abstract
Use of a computer-based application in a pediatric hemodialysis unit: a pilot study. View Abstract
Depression and anxiety in adults with congenital heart disease: a pilot study. View Abstract
NASPE Expert Consensus Conference: Radiofrequency catheter ablation in children with and without congenital heart disease. Report of the writing committee. North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. View Abstract
Consultation-liaison psychiatry: a longitudinal and integrated approach. View Abstract
Future of technology to augment patient support in hospitals. View Abstract
A case series of eight aggressive young children treated with risperidone. View Abstract
Using process evaluation to describe a hospital-based clinic for children coping with medical stressors. View Abstract
Illness-related concerns of mothers of children with congenital heart disease. View Abstract
The prenatal visit. View Abstract
Zora: a pilot virtual community in the pediatric dialysis unit. View Abstract
Bispectral index monitoring in children undergoing mild hypothermic cardiopulmonary bypass. View Abstract
Implementation of an electronic medical record system in a pediatric psychopharmacology program. View Abstract
The experience journal: a computer-based intervention for families facing congenital heart disease. View Abstract
Psychological functioning in children and adolescents undergoing radiofrequency catheter ablation. View Abstract
Postoperative recovery in children after minimum versus full-length sternotomy. View Abstract
Experience journals: using computers to share personal stories about illness and medical intervention. View Abstract
Case study: seizure disorder presenting as panic disorder with agoraphobia. View Abstract
What do I say to my surviving children? View Abstract
Sertraline treatment of transition-associated anxiety and agitation in children with autistic disorder. View Abstract
A psychiatric consultant's survival guide to the pediatric intensive care unit. View Abstract
Use of risperidone in psychotic disorder following ischemic brain damage. View Abstract
Impact of psychologic functioning, medical severity, and family functioning in pediatric heart transplantation. View Abstract
Current perspectives on the pharmacotherapy of depressive disorders in children and adolescents. View Abstract
The role of maternal factors in the adaptation of children with craniofacial disfigurement. View Abstract
Depressive disorders and suicidal intent in adolescent suicide attempters. View Abstract
Adjunctive clonazepam treatment of tic symptoms in children with comorbid tic disorders and ADHD. View Abstract
Psychopathology in the families of children and adolescents with borderline personality disorder. View Abstract
Developmental differences in detection and disclosure of sexual abuse. View Abstract
Physical and sexual abuse histories among children with borderline personality disorder. View Abstract
An integrated medical and psychiatric approach to conversion symptoms in a four-year-old. View Abstract
Recruitment and training of child and adolescent psychiatry residents from pediatrics. View Abstract
The impact of maternal perceptions and medical severity on the adjustment of children with congenital heart disease. View Abstract
Psychological functioning in children with cyanotic heart defects. View Abstract
Depression in a pediatric intensive care unit nursing staff. View Abstract
Children's competence to consent to medical procedures. View Abstract
Combining fluoxetine with desipramine. View Abstract
Staff groups in a pediatric hospital: content and coping. View Abstract
Effect of electroconvulsive therapy on serum isoenzymes. View Abstract
Grief-resolution therapy: reliving, revising, and revisiting. View Abstract