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Conditions Treated
- Infant and Toddler Health
Languages spoken
- English
Experience and background
Behavior and emotional problems in children birth to 6 years old
Parental mood problems around pregnancy and birth
Parent-child relational problems
Undergraduate 1978
Oberlin College (OH)
Graduate 1985
Indiana University
Fellowship 1989
University of Colorado
Dane G. Prugh Award for Distinguished Teaching In Child Psychiatry 2004
University of Colorado, Denver, School of Medicine
Faculty member of
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