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John R. Pruett, Jr., MD, PhD
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Child)
University Roles
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Child)
Education and Training
BA: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1990
Medical Degree: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000
Residency: Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2003
Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 2005
Postdoctoral Research Scholar/Instructor: Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, 7/1/05-11/30/07
Instructor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 12/01/07-6/30/09
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Child), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 7/01/08-current
Major Awards
Awarded Position at the 9th Annual Future Leaders in Psychiatry Meeting Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta GA, May 2007.
The Eli Robins Award, for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, in Teaching and Research, Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 2003
Elected to membership: The Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medicial Society, 2003
NIMH Outstanding Resident Award winner, 2002
Letter of commendation from Washington University School of Medicine Committee on Academic Evaluation of Students for outstanding performance during the 1998-1999 academic year, 1999
Finalist: The 22nd Annual James L. O'Leary Prizes for Research in Neuroscience. Washington University School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, 1999
Awarded position: The James S. McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of California, Davis, 1995
Graduated with honors: Department of Biology, Princeton Universtiy, concentration in neurophysiology, 1990
Elected to membership in Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, 1990
The Charles M. Cannon Memmorial Prize for presentation of senior thesis work, Princeton University, 1990
Areas of Clinical Interest
Autism, general child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric epilepsy patients with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder
Areas of Research Interests
The neuroscience of autism and related disorders
Attention to social and non-social stimuli in autism
Social cognition / Theory of Mind
Comparative cognition of autism
Key Publications
Pruett JR, Jr., Constantino JN, Todd RD and Petersen S. Attention to eye gaze in autistic and non-autistic children. Poster at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 54th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, October 2007.
Pruett JR, Jr. and Luby JL. Recent advances in prepubertal mood disorder: phenomenology and treatment. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2004, 17:31-36.
Pruett JR, Jr., Sinclair RJ and Burton H. Neural correlates for roughness choice in monkey second somatosensory cortex (SII). Journal of Neurophsyiology 2001, 86:2069-2080.
Pruett JR, Jr., Sinclair RJ and Burton H. Response patterns in monkey second somatosensory cortex (SII) during a passive tough roughness classfication task. Journal of Neurophysiology 2000, 84:780-797.
Funded Research Projects
NIMH(PI):Behavioral Pilot for an Imaging Study of Social Attention Deficits in Autism
NEI(Key Personnel):Physician Researchers in Ophthalmic Sciences
The Simons Foundation(Key Personnel):Brain Circuitry in Simplex Autism