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Ahna Pai, PhD

Appointment

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Email

ahna.pai@cchmc.org

Phone

513-803-0406

Fax

513-636-7756

Bio

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Ahna Luise Hoff Pai, PhD, is a faculty member in the Center for the Promotion of Adherence and Self-Management. She is currently developing pilot studies and a K award to examine factors influencing and developing interventions to promote adherence to kidney and liver transplant treatment regimens. Dr. Pai is also working on developing a cancer-specific measure of illness uncertainty, a cognitive contract associated with increased distress and other adverse psychological outcomes. Finally, she is working with Dennis Drotar, PhD, on his R01, an intervention to increase oral medication adherence among adolescents with acute lymphblastic leukemia.

Center for Adherence Promotion and Self-Management

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Credentials

PhD: Clinical Child Psychology, Oklahoma State University, 2003
MS: Clinical Child Psychology, Oklahoma State University, 2000
MA: Clinical Psychology, University of Colorado at Denver, 1998
BS: Psychology, Colorado State University, 1993

Awards and Honors

Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research 10th Anniversary Meeting Travel Award, 2006
National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program Competitive Renewal, 2006
National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program, 2004
Division 54 American Psychological Association Student Poster Award, 2003
Nancy Randolph Davis Scholarship, Oklahoma State University, 2002
Division 54 American Psychological Association Student Travel Award, 2002
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award, 2002
Recipient of the McAlester Scottish Rite Fellowship, Oklahoma State University, 2001
American Psychological Association Student Travel Award, 2000

Research Grants and Contracts

Life Skills Intervention for Young Adolescents Perinatally-Infected with HIV and their Caregivers Part B: A Pilot Study. The Adolescent Trials Network, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Co-Chair.

Publications, Most Recent

Hoff, A. L., Palermo, T. M., Drotar, D., Schluchter, M., & Zebracki, K. (2006). Longitudinal relationships of depressive symptoms to pain intensity and functional disability among children with disease-related pain.Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 1046-1056.

Pai, A. L. H., & Kazak, A. E. (2006). Pediatric medical traumatic stress: Family systems interventions.Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 18, 558-562.

Pai, A. L. H., Drotar, D., Zebracki, K., Moore, M., & Youngstrom, E. (2006). A meta-analysis of the effects of psychological interventions in pediatric oncology on outcomes of psychological distress and adjustment.Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 31, 978-988.

Drotar, D., Greenley, R., Hoff, A., Johnson, C., Lewandowski, A., Moore, M., Spilsbury, J., Witherspoon, D., & Zebracki, K. (2006). Summary of issues and challenges in the use of new technologies in clinical care and with children and adolescents with chronic illness. Children's Health Care, 35, 91-102.

Traore, F., O'Riordan, M. A., Myers, C., Groth, K., Hoff, A. L., Rheingold, S., Drotar, D., & Kodish, E. (2006). Low levels of mercaptopurine metabolites in adolescents with leukemia.Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 46, 187-192.

Hoff, A. L., Mullins L. L., Gillaspy, S. R., Van Pelt, J. C., Page, M., & Chaney, J. M. (2005). An intervention to decrease uncertainty and distress among parents of children newly diagnosed with diabetes: A pilot study.Families, Systems & Health: The Journal of Collaborative Family Health Care, 23, 329-342.

Hoff, A. L., Mullins L. L., Page, M.C., Carpentier, M. Y., Chaney, J. M., & Hommel, K. A. (2005). The relationship of control-related beliefs to depressive symptomatology among children with type 1 diabetes and asthma: A disease-specific approach.Children's Health Care, 34, 261-272.

Ievers-Landis, C. E., Hoff, A. L., Brez, C., Cancilliere, M. K., McConnell, J., & Kerr, D. (2005). Situational analysis of dietary challenges of the treatment regimen for children and adolescents with phenylketonuria and their primary caregivers.Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 26, 1-8.

Mullins, L. L., Fuemmeler, B. F., Hoff, A. L., Chaney, J. M., Van Pelt, J. L., & Ewing, C. A. (2004). The relationship of parental overprotection and perceived child vulnerability to depressive symptomotology in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus: The moderating influence of parenting stress.Children's Health Care, 33, 21-34.

Book Chapters

Hoff, A. L., Wagner, J., Mullins, L. L., & Chaney, J. M. (2003). Behavioral management of diabetes. In L. Cohen, D. McChargue, & F. L. Collins (Eds.), The Health Psychology Handbook: Practical Issues for the Behavioral Medicine Specialist.

Huszti, H. C., Hoff, A. L., & Johnson, C. J. (2003). Sexual Behavior and Problems of Adolescents. In M. C. Roberts (Ed.), Handbook of Pediatric Psychology (3rd ed).

Presentations, Most Recent

Pai, A. L. H., Ferguson, L. M., Foster-Fink, S. & Drotar, D. (2006, September). Longitudinal study of the relationship between illness uncertainty and anxiety symptoms among children with sickle cell disease. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Patino-Fernandez, A.M., Pai, A. L. H., Alderfer, M., Jensen-Pace, M. M., Reilly, A., Kazak, A. E. (2006, September) Assessing psychosocial risk: Mother, physician, nurse report. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pai, A. L. H. (2006, September). The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Psychosocial Assessment Model. Invited Presentation. Division of Oncology Rounds, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Pai, A. L. H., Ferguson, L. M., & Drotar, D. (2006, April). The relationship of child gender and illness uncertainty to health related quality of life among children with sickle cell disease. Presented at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology, Gainesville, FL.

Wolfe-Christensen, C., Mullins, L. L., Pai, A. L. H., Carpentier, M. Y., & Colletti, C. J. M. (2006, April). Effects of parental overprotection, perceived child vulnerability, and parenting stress on illness uncertainty in children and adolescents with asthma or diabetes. Presented at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology, Gainesville, FL.

Pai, A. L. H., Ievers-Landis, C. E., Nguyen, B. & Ferguson, L. (2005, August). Control-related beliefs and depressive symptoms among children with type 1 diabetes. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington D.C.

Palermo, T. M., Hoff, A. L, Drotar, D., Schluchter, M., & Zebracki, K. (2005, March). Baseline depression predicts pain persistence in children with disease related pain. To be presented at the 24th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Pain Society, Boston, MA.

Hoff, A. L., Ievers-Landis, C. E., & Nguyen, B. (2004, November). Contingency, competency and control model in the context of type 1 diabetes. Diabetes research conference, Cleveland, OH.

Lukwinski, L. M. & Hoff, A. L. (2004, October). The relationship of illness-specific and global measures of perceived control to depressive symptoms among children with diabetes. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Ohio Psychological Association, Columbus, OH.

O'Riordan, M. A., Traore, F., Myers, C., Groth, K., Hoff, A., Angiolillo, A., Rheingold, S., Drotar, D., & Kodish, E. (2004, October). How low is too low? Use of cluster analysis to define low levels of mercaptopurine metabolites. Presented at the Third Annual International Conference of the American Association for Cancer Research: Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. Seattle, WA.

Hoff, A. L., Carpentier, M. Y., Mullins, L. L., Gillaspy, S. R., & Van Pelt, J. C. (2004, July). Effects of a parent-based intervention on diabetes independence. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association Annual Convention. Honolulu, HI.

Hoff, A. L., Mullins, L. L., Gillaspy, S. R., Van Pelt, J. C., & Espinoza, L. (2004, April). Effects of a parent-based intervention on child outcomes. Presented at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology. Charleston, SC.

Ievers-Landis, C. E., Hoff, A.L., Brez, C., Cancilliere, M. K., McConnell, J., & Kerr, D. (2004, April). Situational analysis of dietary challenges of the treatment regimen for children and adolescents with phenylketonuria and their caregivers. Presented at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology. Charleston, SC.

Colletti, C. J. M., Mullins, L. L., Van Pelt, J. C., Carpentier, M., & Hoff, A. L. (2004, April). Parental perceptions of child vulnerability, parental overprotection, and uncertainty in children with chronic illness. Presented at the National Conference on Child Health Psychology. Charleston, SC.