Barnett, Shannon R., M.D.

Assistant Professor Director of Adolescent and Youth Programs Division of Community Psychiatry Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Main Office Address D-2-East, Room 241 Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center 4940 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224 Phone 410-550-0086 / Fax 410-550-1748 E-mail:sbarnett@jhmi.edu Administrative Assistant Melanie Haynes Phone: 410-550-0018 E-mail: mhaynes@jhmi.edu

Education and Government Service

Professional Interests  

• Treatment of children and adolescents with severe mood lability
• Impact on mood symptoms of treating co-morbid disorders such as communication disorders and learning disorders
• Psychosocial treatments that can be used to augment psychopharmacologic treatments

Selected Publications

Barnett SR, dosReis S, Riddle MA, and The Maryland Youth Practice Improvement Committee For Mental Health.  Improving the management of acute aggression in state residential and impatient psychiatric facilities for youths.  J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry. 2002; 41(8):897-905. 

Barnett SR & Labellarte MJ.  Practical Assessment and Treatment of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.  Adolescent Psychiatry. 2002; 26:181-214. 

Barnett SR & Riddle MA.  Anxiolytics: benzodiazepines, buspirone, and others, in Pediatric Psychopharmacology.  Edited by Martin, Schahill, Charney, Leckman.  2003. New York, Oxford University Press: 341-352.