Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1044
ISSN: 2167-1044
Jon A. Shaw
University of Miami School of Medicine, USA
Jon A. Shaw, M.D., Ret. Col. USA, is Professor and Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Miami School of Medicine. He is certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Adult and Child Psychoanalysis. Dr. Shaw graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School obtaining his M.D. degree and a M.S. in Physiological Psychology. He completed his residency training in General Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and a Clinical Research Fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
While on active duty with the U. S. Army, Dr. Shaw held such positions as Chairman, Department of Psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Consultant in Psychiatry and Neurology to the United States Army Surgeon General. After serving on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute of Mental Health, he became Director of the Child and Adolescent Disorders Research Branch at the NIMH, 1987-1989. He moved to Miami in 1989. Dr. Shaw served as a consultant to and was instrumental in developing the prevention-intervention program for child victims of war in that country. He edited a book on Sexual Aggression, (1999). He has served on a task force with the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences focusing on bioterrorism and director of the task force on training for terrorism and disaster for the TDB of the NCTSN. Presently he is serving as the director of the Trauma/Sexual Abuse Clinic; consultant to the Terrorism and Disaster Center (TDC), University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, and as a consultant to the Florida Disaster Mental/Behavioral Health Curriculum Institute.
Psychological effects of trauma both on adults and children. He has published on the psychological effects of Hurricane Andrew on children; children exposed to war/terrorism, planning for bioterrorism, acute psychic trauma, children adolescents and trauma, transcultural aspects of sexual abuse; child on child sexual abuse; sexual aggression; combat stress reactions, prodromal symptoms of Bipolar Disorder, pathways to spirituality and grief and mourning.