Charles Cunningham, Ph.D.

Affiliation

 

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences McMaster University

Mailing Address

Hamilton Health Sciences, Chedoke Site
565 Sanatorium RD
Hamilton ON L9C 7N4

Phone: 905-521-2100 x.77307
Fax: 1 (905) 540-6533
E-Mail: cunnic@hhsc.ca

Appointments, cross appointments, fellowships

Jack Laidlaw Chair in Patient-Centred Health Care

Research Interests

Dr. Cunningham developed and has conducted research examining the utilization, cost effectiveness, and outcome of large group, community-based COPE programs for parents of children with disruptive behavior disorders. He has been involved in the development and evaluation of school-based student-mediated conflict resolution programs involving students in the reduction of playground violence and is a co-investigator on a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Foundation Community-University Research Alliance grant to develop more effective bullying and violence prevention programs. He also led the development of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview, a computerized children’s mental health screening and outcome measurement tool used by the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.

Dr. Cunningham’s current research includes an evaluation of the Brief Child and Family Phone Interview and the use of consumer preference modeling strategies to involve parents and professionals in the design of more effective children’s mental health information transfer strategies. Both of these projects are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He is also involved in longitudinal studies funded by the Ontario Mental Health Foundation which focus on the social and psychophysiological correlates of the early anxiety disorders selective mutism and social phobia.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Corkum, P., Andreou, P., Schachar, R., Tannock, R., & Cunningham, C. E. (2007). The Telephone Interview Probe: A novel measure of treatment response in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 67, 1-17.
  2. Cunningham, C. E. Family-centred measurement of the outcome of treatment for children with ADHD. Pediatric Psychology (in press – jointly published in Ambulatory Pediatrics)
  3. Cunningham, C. E. Family-centred measurement of the outcome of treatment for children with ADHD. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 7, 60-72.
  4. Cunningham, C. E., McHolm, A., & Boyle, M. (2006). Social phobia, anxiety, oppositional behaviour, social skills, and self concept in children with specific versus pervasive selective mutism and community controls. European Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 15, 245-255.
  5. Cunningham, C. E., Deal, K., Neville, A. & Miller, H. (2006). Modeling the problem- based learning preferences of McMaster University’s undergraduate medical students using a discrete choice conjoint experiment. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 11, 245-266.
  6. Kollins, S. The Preschool ADHD Treatment Study Group, & Cunningham, C. E. (2006). Rationale, Design, and Methods of the Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 1275-1283.
  7. Greenhill, L., The Preschool ADHD Treatment Study Group, & Cunningham, C. E. (2006). Efficacy and Safety of Immediate-release Methylphenidate Treatment for Preschoolers With ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 1284-1293.
  8. Swanson, J., Greenhill, L., Wigal, T., Kollins, S., Stehli, A., Davies, M., Chuang, S., Vitiello, B., Skrobala, A., Posner, K., Abikoff, H., Oatis, M., McCracken, J., McGough, J., Riddle, M., Ghuman, J., Cunningham, C.E., Wigal, S. (2006). Stimulant-Related Reductions of Growth Rates in the PATS. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 1304-1313.
  9. McGough, J., McCracken, J., Swanson, J., Riddle, M., Kollins, S., Greenhill, L., Abikoff, H., Davies, M., Chuang, S., Wigal, T., Wigal, S., Posner, K., Skrobala, A., Kastelic, E., Ghuman, J., Cunningham, C.E., Shigawa, S., Moyzis, R., Vitiello, B. (2006). Pharmacogenetics of Methylphenidate Response in Preschoolers with ADHD. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45,1314-1322.
  10. Lipman, E. L., Boyle, M. H., Cunningham, C. E., Kenney, M., Sniderman, C., Duku, E.,Mills, B., Evans, P., & Waymouth, M. (2006). Testing effectiveness of a community-based aggression management program for children 7 to 11 year old and their families, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 1085-1093.
  11. Barkley, R. A., Cunningham, C. E., Gordon, M., Faraone, S. V., Lewandowski, L.,& Murphy, K. R. (2006). ADHD symptoms versus Impairment: Revisited. The ADHD Report, 14, 1-9.
  12. Tamm, L., Swanson, J. M., Lerner, M. A., Childress, C., Patterson, B., Lakes, K., Nguyen, A.S., Kudo, M., Altamirano, W., Miller, J., Santoyo, R., Camarero-Morse, V., Watkins, J. M., Simpson, S., Waffarn, F., & Cunningham, C. (2005). Intervention for preschoolers at risk for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Service before diagnosis. Clinical Neuroscience Research, 5, 247-253.
  13. Russell, A., Campbell, H., Scardamalia, M., Lamon, M., Melnick, B., Henderson, J., Cunningham, C. E., & Matheson, A. (2005). Collaborating to innovate and improve patient-centred care at Hamilton Health Sciences. Health Care Quarterly, 1-13.
  14. Gordon, M., Antshel, K., Faraone, S., Barkley, R., Lewandowski, L., Hudziak, J., Biederman, J., & Cunningham, C. (2006). Symptoms versus impairment: in children with ADHD. The Journal of Attention Disorders, 9, 465-475.
  15. Gordon, M., Antshel, K., Faraone, S., Barkley, R., Lewandowski, L., Hudziak, J., Biederman, J., & Cunningham, C. (2005). Symptoms versus impairment: The case for respecting DSM-IV’s Criterion D. The ADHD Report, 13, 1-9.

 

 

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