Chun, Thomas

Thomas H Chun

Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Emergency Medicine

Overview

My primary focus is mental and behavioral health issues as they pertain to the emergency department, from the research, clinical care and public health perspectives. An additional focus is multi-center research, in both PECARN (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network) and ECHO ISPCTN (Environmental Influences of Child Health Outcomes - IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network) and Pedi Lyme Net, a Lyme Disease Emergency Department network.

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Linakis JG, Bromberg JR, Casper TC, Chun TH, Mello MJ, Richards R, Mull CC, Shenoi RP, Vance C, Ahmad F, Bajaj L, Brown KM, Chernick LS, Cohen DM, Fein J, Horeczko T, Levas MN, McAninch B, Monuteaux MC, Grupp-Phelan J, Powell EC, Rogers A, Suffoletto B, Dean JM, Spirito A, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. "Predictive Validity of a 2-Question Alcohol Screen at 1-, 2-, and 3-Year Follow-up." Pediatrics, vol. 143, no. 3, 2019.

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Spirito A, Bromberg JR, Casper TC, Chun T, Mello MJ, Mull CC, Shenoi RP, Vance C, Ahmad F, Bajaj L, Brown KM, Chernick LS, Cohen DM, Fein J, Horeczko T, Levas MN, McAninch B, Monuteaux MC, Grupp-Phelan J, Powell EC, Rogers A, Suffoletto B, Linakis JG, Pediatric Emergency Care Research Network (PECARN). "Screening for Adolescent Alcohol Use in the Emergency Department: What Does It Tell Us About Cannabis, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use?." Substance Use & Misuse, vol. 54, no. 6, 2019, pp. 1007-1016.

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Mello MJ, Bromberg JR, Rougas S, Chun TH, Brown LL, Parnagian CS, Baird J. "Substance use screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment training for emergency medicine trainees." Advances in Medical Education and Practice, vol. 10, 2019, pp. 71-76.

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Ranney, Megan L., Bromberg, Julie, Hozey, Alyssa, Casper, T. Charles, Mello, Michael J., Spirito, Anthony, Chun, Thomas H., Linakis, James G. "Problem Behaviors and Psychological Distress Among Teens Seen in a National Sample of Emergency Departments." Academic Pediatrics, vol. 18, no. 6, 2018, pp. 650-654.

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Bromberg JR, Spirito A, Chun T, Mello MJ, Casper TC, Ahmad F, Bajaj L, Brown KM, Chernick LS, Cohen DM, Fein J, Horeczko T, Levas MN, McAninch B, Monuteaux M, Mull CC, Grupp-Phelan J, Powell EC, Rogers A, Shenoi RP, Suffoletto B, Vance C, Linakis JG, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. "Methodology and Demographics of a Brief Adolescent Alcohol Screen Validation Study." Pediatric Emergency Care , 2017.

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Schnadower D, Tarr PI, Casper TC, Gorelick MH, Dean MJ, O'Connell KJ, Mahajan P, Chun TH, Bhatt SR, Roskind CG, Powell EC, Rogers AJ, Vance C, Sapien RE, Gao F, Freedman SB. "Randomised controlled trial of <i>Lactobacillus rhamnosus</i> (LGG) versus placebo in children presenting to the emergency department with acute gastroenteritis: the PECARN probiotic study protocol." BMJ Open, vol. 7, no. 9, 2017, pp. e018115.

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Miranda R Jr, MacKillop J, Treloar H, Blanchard A, Tidey JW, Swift RM, Chun T, Rohsenow DJ, Monti PM. "Biobehavioral mechanisms of topiramate's effects on alcohol use: an investigation pairing laboratory and ecological momentary assessments." Addiction Biology, vol. 21, no. 1, 2016, pp. 171-182.

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Chun TH, Mace SE, Katz ER, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS., COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, AND AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS., PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE COMMITTEE. "Evaluation and Management of Children and Adolescents With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part I: Common Clinical Challenges of Patients With Mental Health and/or Behavioral Emergencies." Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 3, 2016.

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Chun TH, Mace SE, Katz ER, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine., AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS Pediatric Emergency Medicine Committee. "Evaluation and Management of Children With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part II: Recognition of Clinically Challenging Mental Health Related Conditions Presenting With Medical or Uncertain Symptoms." Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 3, 2016.

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Chun TH, Mace SE, Katz ER, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS., COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE., AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS., PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE COMMITTEE. "Executive Summary: Evaluation and Management of Children and Adolescents With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part I: Common Clinical Challenges of Patients With Mental Health and/or Behavioral Emergencies." Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 3, 2016.

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Chun TH, Mace SE, Katz ER, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS., PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE COMMITTEE. "Executive Summary: Evaluation and Management of Children With Acute Mental Health or Behavioral Problems. Part II: Recognition of Clinically Challenging Mental Health Related Conditions Presenting With Medical or Uncertain Symptoms." Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 3, 2016.

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Chau DB, Ciullo SS, Watson-Smith D, Chun TH, Kurkchubasche AG, Luks FI. "Patient-centered outcomes research in appendicitis in children: Bridging the knowledge gap." Journal of Pediatric Surgery, vol. 51, no. 1, 2016, pp. 117-121.

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Spirito A, Bromberg JR, Casper TC, Chun TH, Mello MJ, Dean JM, Linakis JG, Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network. "Reliability and Validity of a Two-Question Alcohol Screen in the Pediatric Emergency Department." Pediatrics, vol. 138, no. 6, 2016.

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Miranda R Jr, Treloar H, Blanchard A, Justus A, Monti PM, Chun T, Swift R, Tidey JW, Gwaltney CJ. "Topiramate and motivational enhancement therapy for cannabis use among youth: a randomized placebo-controlled pilot study." Addiction Biology, vol. 22, no. 3, 2016, pp. 779-790.

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Chun, Thomas H., Katz, Emily R., Duffy, Susan J., Gerson, Ruth S. "Challenges of Managing Pediatric Mental Health Crises in the Emergency Department." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, vol. 24, no. 1, 2015, pp. 21-40.

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Hernandez, Lynn, Cancilliere, Mary Kathryn, Graves, Hannah, Chun, Thomas H., Lewander, William, Spirito, Anthony. "Substance Use and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents Treated in a Pediatric Emergency Department." Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, vol. 25, no. 2, 2015, pp. 124-133.

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Chun TH, Duffy SJ, Linakis JG. "Emergency Department Screening for Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How It Could and Should Be Done." Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, vol. 14, no. 1, 2013, pp. 3-11.

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Fairlie AM, Chun TH, Hernández L, Sindelar-Manning H, Eaton CA, Lewander W, Spirito A. "Alcohol Use History Differentiates Adolescents Treated in the Emergency Department After an Alcohol-Related Incident." Pediatric Emergency Care , vol. 26, no. 6, 2010, pp. 417-23.

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Hernandez L, Eaton CA, Fairlie AM, Chun TH, Spirito A. "Ethnic group differences in substance use, depression, peer relationships, and parenting among adolescents receiving brief alcohol counseling." Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, vol. 9, no. 1, 2010, pp. 14-27.

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Chun TH, Spirito A, Hernández L, Fairlie AM, Sindelar-Manning H, Eaton CA, Lewander WJ. "The significance of marijuana use among alcohol-using adolescent emergency department patients." Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 17, no. 1, 2010, pp. 63-71.

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Research

Funded Research

GRANTS

Helping Parents in the Pediatric ER to Quit Smoking.
Grant# R01 CA 74538, National Cancer Institute, $500,000 per year, originally awarded June 1997, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Judith DePue 1999 - 2001
Reducing Injury, Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among ED Patients.
Grant# R01 AA 13709, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $375,000 per year, originally awarded April 2003, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Woolard 2004 - 2005
Teaching an Alcohol Intervention to Pediatric ER Staff,
Grant# K23 AA014934, National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $197,500 per year, originally awarded March 2005, Principal Investigator: Thomas Chun. Co-investigators: Anthony Spirito, Gail D’Onofrio, Catherine Dubé, Robert Swift, and Robert Woolard 2005 - 2011
Translation of Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention Guidelines to Pediatric Trauma Centers, Grant# R01 CE001-158601, Centers for Disease Control, $199,780 per year, originally awarded September 2009, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Michael Mello 2009 - 2012
Mechanisms of Naltrexone Action on Drinking in Adolesecents, Grant# R21 AA017273, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $232,276 per year, originally awarded September 2008
Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Miranda 2010
Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Topiramate and Drinking , Grant# R01 AA007850, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $506,987 per year, originally awarded January 2010, Co-investigator,
Principal Investigator: Peter Monti 2010 - 2011
Biobehavioral Effects of Topiramate on Cannibis-Related Outcomes in Adolescents, Grant# 1RO1 DA026778, National Institute of Drug Abuse, $560,515 per year, originally awarded June 2009, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Miranda 2010 - 2011
ED Based Prevention Intervention to Delay Alcohol Use by Young Adolescents, Grant# R21 AA018380, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $121,509 per year, originally awarded April 2010, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: James Linakis 2010 - 2012
Effects of the Family Check-Up on Adolescents with Alcohol-Related Events and Their Siblings, Grant# R01 AA017659, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $781,970 per year, originally awarded August 2008, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Anthony Spirito 2010 - 2011
Emergency Medical Services For Children: Network Development Demonstration Project, Grant# U03 MC22685, Health Resources and Services Administration, $630,000 per year, originally awarded August 2011, Hospital Emergency Department Affiliate Site Principal Investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Hickey 2011 - 2015
Effects of Topiramate on Adolescent Alcohol Use; Efficacy and Mechanisms, Grant# R01 AA007850, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $620, 583 per year, originally awarded September 2011, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Miranda 2011 - 2016
Teen Alcohol Screening in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, Grant# R01 AA021900, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $831,720 per year, originally awarded September 2012, Co-investigator, Co-Principal Investigators: James Linakis and Anthony Spirito 2012 - 2017
Impact of Emergency Department Probiotic Treatment of Pediatric Gastroenteritis, Grant# R01 HD071915, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, $809,725 per year, originally awarded December 2013, Site Co-PI, Principal Investigator: David Schnadower 2014 - 2018

SBIRT Training for Emergency Medicine Residents and Fourth Year Medical Students, Grant# H79 TI025950, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, $262,741 per year, originally awarded September 2015, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Michael Mello 2015 - 2019

Understanding the Interplay of Social Context and Physiology on Psychological Outcomes in Trauma-Exposed Adolescents, Grant# R01 MH108641, National Institute of Mental Health, $777,728 per year, originally awarded July 2016, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Nicole Nugent 2016 - 2021
Rhode Island Child Clinical Trials Collaborative, Grant# UG1 OD024951, National Institute of Health, Office of the Director, $1,877, 090 per year, originally awarded September 2016, Co-Principal Investigator, with Phyllis Dennery and Abbot Laptook 2016 - 2020
Task Order 2: Human Laboratory Study of Varenicline for Alcohol Use Disorder, Grant# HHSN27500002, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $493,847 per year, originally awarded September 2016, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Miranda 2016 - 2018
Non-Operative Management of Pediatric Appendicitis: A Randomized Controlled Study, Grant# U34 DK112584, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, $423,005, originally awarded August 2017, Co-Principal Investigator, with Francois Luks 2017 - 2019
Behavioral Economic Analysis of Demand for Marijuana, Grant# K01 DA039311, National Institute of Drug Abuse, $180,481 per year, originally awarded May 2015, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Aston 2018 – 2020
Task Order 3: Human Laboratory Paradigms Testing ANS-6637, Grant# HHSN 275201500003I-0-27500003, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, $585,153 per year, originally awarded September 2018, Co-investigator, Principal Investigator: Robert Miranda 2018 - 2020
Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN), Grant# U03 MC33155, Health Resources Services Administration, $700,000 per year, originally awarded September 2019, Principal Investigator 2019-2023.
Rhode Island Child Clinical Trials Collaborative – ECHO (Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes) IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network, Grant# UG1 OD024951, National Institutes of Health Office of the Director, $291,248 per year, originally awarded September 2020, Co-Principal Investigator 2020-2025

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
2011	MPH	Brown University
1991	MD	University of Hawaii
1987	AB	University of California at Berkeley

Honors and Awards

POSTGRADUATE HONORS AND AWARDS

2010

Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award
Alpert Medical School
Brown University

2013

Department of Emergency Medicine
2012 Outstanding Physician Award,
Alpert Medical School
Brown University

2015

Department of Emergency Medicine
2015 Outstanding Investigator Award,
Alpert Medical School
Brown University

2018

Department of Emergency Medicine
2018 Outstanding Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Research Mentoring Award,
Alpert Medical School
Brown University

2019

Department of Emergency Medicine
2019 Gregory Jay Research Impact Award,
Alpert Medical School
Brown University

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES AND BOARD CERTIFICATION (including re-certification)

1992 National Board of Medical Examiners

1994 - State of Rhode Island

1996 - 1999 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (inactive)

1995 - American Board of Pediatrics

2000 - American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Subspecialty

2002 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, General Psychiatry

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Collaborators

Name	Title
Duffy, Susan	Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Emergency Medicine
Linakis, James	Professor Emeritus of Emergency Medicine
Mello, Michael	Professor of Medical Science, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Emergency Medicine
Miranda, Robert	Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Spirito, Anthony	Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Teaching

Teaching Overview

UNIVERSITY TEACHING ROLES

January 1989 – May 1989

University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI

· Anatomy 606, Human Neuroanatomy, 50 students per year

July 1990 – May 1990

University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI

· Medicine 512, Medical History and Physical Examination
Techniques, 8 students per year

July 1996 – June 1999

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

· Medicine 303, Pediatric History and Physical Examination,
4-6 students per 6 week rotation

May 2000 – May 2002

Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

· Adolescent Substance Abuse Prevention Affinity Group,
Faculty Mentor, 8 students per year

July 2007 –

Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

· BI 450, Clerkship in Pediatrics
(Third Year Medical Student Clerkship)

Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotation,
6-12 students per 6 week rotation
July 2007 - June 2010
Faculty Mentor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine rotation,
1-2 students per 6 week rotation,
July 2011 –

March 2008 – March 2010

Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI

· BI 372, Epidemiology for the Practice of Medicine
Small group discussion leader, 10 students per year

HOSPITAL TEACHING ROLES

July 1996 – June 1999

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Supervising medical students and residents in the Emergency Department (daily), 4-6 students per shift
Resident mock resuscitations, case presentations, or lectures (monthly), 8-40 students per conference
Emergency and Critical Care Medicine Case Conference (annually), 10-20 students per conference
Emergency Medicine Advanced Procedures Laboratory (annually), 10-20 students per course
Senior Resident “Resuscitation Retreat” (annually), 24 students per conference
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (bi-monthly), 10-30 students per course

July 1999 -

Hasbro Children’s Hospital

Supervising medical students, residents and fellows in the Emergency Department (daily), 3-5 students per shift
Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellows’, and Pediatric and Emergency Medicine resident mock resuscitations, case presentations, or lectures (monthly), 6-30 students per conference
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (annually), 30-40 students per course

Researchers@Brown

Researchers@Brown

Thomas H Chun

Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Emergency Medicine

Overview

Brown Affiliations

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Research

Funded Research

Background

Education and Training

Honors and Awards

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Collaborators

Teaching

Teaching Overview