Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
 Gregory
Fritz, MD
- Media professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School
Background Information
Fritz is the medical director of Bradley Hospital. He is
also the media professor in the department of psychiatry and human
behavior at Brown Medical School and director of child and adolescent
psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital.
He graduated with honors from Brown University in 1967, and earned his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1971. In 1977, Fritz was named clinical assistant professor and physician specialist in the department of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto.
Fritz has been either the principal investigator or co-investigator of more than 25 grant-funded research projects since 1983. In recent years, these projects have tended to focus on asthma-related studies.
Research Interests
Gregory Fritz, MD, is an expert on emotional difficulties confronting children and adolescents, particularly those with asthma and other medical disorders. He is also a national authority on the shortage of child mental health professionals.
Selected Publications
Fritz has written extensively
in peer-review publications about children with chronic illnesses
like asthma, diabetes, cancer or AIDS, and the psychological problems
that co-exist with them. Fritz has also explored building collaborative
relationships between pediatricians and child psychiatrists. He
has written a number of textbook chapters and co-authored a book, Mental Health Consultation in Hospitals, Schools and Court.
Fritz also writes for more general readership. He is the editor
of the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter,
and regularly contributes commentary on topics as diverse as helping
children deal with war and terrorism, and inhalant abuse among children.
Fritz's contributions to the letter have frequently been reprinted
in the media.
Selected Research Projects
Pediatric Asthma
Disparities: Perceptions and Management
This study is
funded by the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The study examines the factors
leading to the greater prevalence and severity of asthma in Hispanics
compared to Caucasian children. A companion grant will conduct similar
studies at the University of Puerto Rico. Together, the grants for
this project total $6 million.
Honors
Among the honors that Fritz has accumulated, including a listing
in The Best Doctors in America, are two awarded 20 years
apart: Outstanding Teaching Award from the child psychiatry department
of Stanford University School of Medicine in 1981, and Outstanding
Teaching Award in Medical School Education, from the department
of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School in 2001.
In 1998, Fritz received the Simon Wile Award from the American
Academy for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for Leadership in Consultation
Liaison Psychiatry.
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