Wissow, Larry, M.D.

Associate Professor

Main Office Address

The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
749 Hampton House
Baltimore, MD 21287

Phone: 410-614-1243
Fax: 410-955-7241

E-mail: Lwissow@jhsph.edu

Education

Professional Interests

Children's mental health services, interface of psychiatry with primary care, doctor-patient communication about sensitive subjects including emotional distress, end-of-life issues. Pediatric HIV. Corporal punishment of children.

Selected Publications

Wissow LS, Roter D, Larson S. Longitudinal care improves disclosure of psychosocial information. Arch Pediatr Adol Med. 2003;157:419-425. 

Wissow LS, Fothergill K, Forman J. Confidentiality and minors' mental health treatment in primary care settings. Bioethics Forum (Bull. Midwest Bioethics Inst.) 2003;18(3-4):43-54. 

Wissow LS, Hutton N, Kass N. Values history advance directives for children with HIV infection. J Clinical Ethics 2001;12:161-172. 

Wissow LS, Walkup J, Barlow A, Reid R, Kane S. Cluster and regional influences on suicide in a Southwestern American Indian tribe.  Social Science and Medicine 2001;53:1115-1124. 

Wissow LS. Ethnicity, income, and parenting context of spanking in a national sample of families with young children. Child Maltreatment 2001;6:118-129.