Project Director:

Donald P. Orr, MD

Mission: 

Improve the health and well-being of US adolescents through

• education
• research
• program
• service
• evaluation
• dissemination of best practices

Philosophy and Guiding Principles:

• educate and mentor the next generation of leaders in adolescent health
• honor diversity and culture among young people and training health care leaders
• use a competency-based curriculum provide trainees with
• discipline specific role models
• formal instruction
• supervised application of new knowledge and skills
• the opportunity to teach others

Scientific & Research Capabilities:

• Interdisciplinary clinical research in adolescent health
• survey
• clinical trials
• research design 
• complex data management 
• biostatistics including complex statistical analyses (e.g. hierarchical linear modeling, latent growth curve and structural equation modeling)
• sexually transmitted infection molecular diagnostics

Academic Programs:

• Pediatrics
• Nursing
• Social Work
• Psychology
• Dietetics/Nutrition
• MS in Clinical Research
• Post-doctoral fellowship in behavioral aspects of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV
• Pediatrics Scientist Training Program
  

Distance Learning:

• capacity for streaming video with archival
• real-time video teleconferencing

Internships and Training Programs:

• Fellowship in Adolescent Medicine (ACGME accredited)
• long-term interdisciplinary training in adolescent health
• medicine
• nursing
• social work
• dietetics/nutrition
• psychology

Clinical Programs:

• primary and specialty adolescent medicine
• reproductive health
• eating disorders
• Diabetes Mellitus, HIV 
• school-based health
• juvenile correctional medicine
• telemedicine/telehealth

Professional Relationships:

• Society for Adolescent Medicine
• American Diabetes Association
• American Nurses Association
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Dietetics Association
• National Association of Social Workers
• American Psychological Association
• American Board of Pediatrics
• National Institutes of Health
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Communications:

• http://pediatrics.iupui.edu/adolescent.htm
• Adolescent Medicine, XE 070
• Indiana University School of Medicine
• 575 N. West Dr.
• Indianapolis, IN 46202