Overview

CNaP boasts a robust clinical research program, offering many opportunities for fellow involvement in research.

Faculty members at CNaP are engaged in research projects funded by national organizations such as the NIH and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and by local and national foundations. These studies engage collaborators across Kennedy Krieger, Johns Hopkins and external sites, and they cover a very broad range of topics, but all are in the service of understanding and managing the neurodevelopmental conditions that affect children. These ongoing projects often represent rich research opportunities for fellows.

In addition, faculty and staff members at CNaP participate in clinical research and quality improvement projects that make use of the department’s extensive clinical database, which houses neuropsychological test scores, demographic data and other clinical information on tens of thousands of our pediatric patients. Fellows frequently are involved in projects that make use of these data, often presenting their findings at conferences or in the form of manuscripts in peerreviewed journals. See the Recent Publications list for examples of publications by recent fellows.

In addition to these opportunities to be involved in specific research projects, the department hosts a weekly Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Journal Club in which faculty members, staff members and fellows discuss a preselected journal article’s content and methodological merits.

Recent Publications:

2020 to Present:

Peer-reviewed Articles:

(Residents in bold)

Lieb, R. W., Kalb, L. G., Reetzke, R., Ludwig, N. N., Love, C.E., Ng, R., Wexler, D., Gornik, A., Holingue, C., Hong, J. (2025). Associations between emotion and behavior codes and ADOS-2 scores in a sample of children referred for autism evaluation. Autism, Online ahead of print. doi.org/10.1177/136236132513552

Gornik, A., Love, C., Pritchard, A., Lieb, R. W., Jacobson, L., Ng, R., Peterson, R., Kalb, L. (2025). Unequal neighborhoods, unequal skills: Adaptive functioning and access to community resources. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Online ahead of print. doi:10.1017/S1355617725101070

Wright, J. A., Bergkamp, J., Grus, C. L., Lichtenberg, J. W., Lieb, R. W., McKinnie, M. C., Miller, M. J., Perez-Rojas, A. E., Ramclam, A. N., Washburn, J. J., Ponce, A. N. (2025). A unifying, process-oriented model of competency in health service psychology. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 19(3), 163–177. doi.org/10.1037/ tep0000514 

Lieb, R. W., Jacobson, L. A., Kalb, L. G., Pritchard, A. E., McDermott, S. M., Ludwig, N. N., Peterson, R. K., Ng, R., & Wexler, D. (2025). Evaluating the equivalency of teletesting and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on measures of reading achievement in a clinically referred sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 40(5), 945–953. doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acae120

Gornik, A. E., Northrup, R. A., Kalb, L. G., Jacobson, L. A., Lieb, R., Peterson, R. K., Wexler, D., Ludwig, N., Ng, R., & Pritchard, A. E. (2024). To confirm your appointment, please press one: Examining demographic and health system interface factors that predict missed appointments in a pediatric outpatient neuropsychology clinic. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2023.2219421

Gornik, A. E., Jacobson, L. A., Kalb, L. G., & Pritchard, A. E. (2023). If opportunity knocks: Understanding contextual factors’ influence on cognitive systems. Research in Child & Adolescent Psychopathology. DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01134-0 

Wexler, D., Pritchard, A. E., & Ludwig, N. (2022). Characterizing and comparing adaptive and academic functioning in children with low average and below average intellectual abilities. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2022.2096484

Wexler, D., Salgado, R., Gornik, A., Peterson, R., & Pritchard, A. E. (2022). What's race got to do with it? Informant rating discrepancies in neuropsychological evaluations for children with ADHD. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 36(2), 264-286. DOI: 10.1080/13854046.2021.1944671

Hamner, T., Salorio, C., Kalb, L., & Jacobson, L. A. (2021). Equivalency of in-person versus remote assessment: WISC-V and KTEA-3 performance in clinically referred children and adolescents. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. Epub ahead of print.

von Buttlar, A. M., Zabel, T. A., Pritchard, A. E., & Cannon, A. D. (2021). Concordance of the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System, second and third editions. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 65(3) 283-295. DOI: 10.1111/jir.12810

Pritchard, A. E., Holingue, C., Zabel, T. A., Jacobson, L. A., Jones, E., & Kalb, L. (2020). Caregiver perspectives on informed consent for a pediatric learning healthcare system model of care. AJOB Empirical Bioethics, 12(2), 92-100. DOI: 10.1080/23294515.2020.1836066

Abstracts and Presentations:

(Supervising faculty in bold italics, residents in bold)

Wexler, D. A., Ludwig, N. N., & Pritchard, A. E. (February 2021). More alike than different: Comparing children with low average intellectual abilities to their lower functioning peers [Poster presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), Virtual.