| Assistant Professor |
Main Office Address
Professional Office Building (POB)
3rd Floor, Office C
3901 Greenspring Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21211
Phone: 443-923-2643
Fax: 443-923-7696
E-mail: vasa@kennedykrieger.org
Administrative Assistant
JoAnne Smith
Phone: 443-923-7618
E-mail: smithj@kennedykrieger.org
Education
1987 | B.A. | Colby College |
1991 | M.D. | Robert Wood Johnson Medical School |
1991-1992 | Internal Medicine Internship | Columbia Presbyterian Hospital |
1992-1995 | General Psychiatry Residency | Johns Hopkins Hospital |
1995-1997 | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship | Johns Hopkins Hospital |
Professional Interests
Child and adolescent anxiety and depressive disorders, behavioral and neural correlates of pediatric anxiety disorders, psychiatric consequences of traumatic brain injury
Click here to learn more about Dr. Vasa's research
Selected Publications
Vasa, RA, Pine DS: Pharmacotherapy of depressed children and adolescents: current issues and future directions (2006). Biol Psychiatry 2006: 1;59(11):1021-8.
Vasa RA, Roberson-Nay, R, Klein, RG, Mannuzza, S, Moulton JL, Guardino M, Merikangas A, Pine DS: Memory deficits in children with and at risk for anxiety disorders. Anxiety and Depression 2006.
Vasa RA, Grados M, Slomine B, Herskovitz EH, Thompson RE, Salorio C,Christensen J, Wurtsa C, Riddle MA, Gerring JP: Neuroimaging correlates of anxiety after pediatric traumatic brain injury. Biological Psychiatry 2004: 55(3): 208-216.
Vasa R, Gerring J, Grados M, Slomine B, Rising W, Christensen J, Denckla M, Riddle MA: Anxiety following severe pediatric closed head injury. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2002: 41: 148-156.
Gerring J, Slomine B, Vasa R, Grados M, Chen A, Rising W, Christensen J, Bryan N, Denckla M: Development of posttraumatic stress disorder after severe closed head injury in children and adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 2002: 41: 157-165.
