For Health Professionals Child Health & Policy Staff Faculty Lydia Furman
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Lydia Furman, MD

Associate Professor, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
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Research Interests:
Breastfeeding, ADHD/childhood mental health, General pediatrics

Publications:
Furman L, Combs B, Alexander A and O’Riordan MA. Breastfeeding Rates at an Inner City Pediatric Practice. Clin Pediatr 2008 (in press).

Furman L ADHD: Does new research support old concepts? J Child Neurol 2008 (in press).

Presentations:
“ADHD: examining the evidence/there is no Santa Claus”, presented at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center, New York, NY March 2008; Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH February 2008; and Pediatric Grand Rounds at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH September 2007.

“ADHD: The vigorous pursuit of a nonentity?”, presented at The Spectrum of Developmental Disabilities XXIX: “ADHD- beyond the basics”, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, course for physicians and allied health professionals, March 2007.