{"id":668,"date":"2021-11-08T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T20:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/?page_id=668"},"modified":"2021-11-10T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:12:31","slug":"alison-duncan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/team\/alison-duncan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Duncan, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment670\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-424x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"404\" class=\"wp-image-670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-424x636.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/files\/2021\/11\/Alison_Duncan_24477-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison Duncan, MD; Director, Psychiatric Emergency Services; Assistant Professor, BUSM Department of Psychiatry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Alison Duncan is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center, where she is also the Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services. She has both clinical and research expertise in emergency psychiatry, pediatric consult-liaison psychiatry, family communication, suicide, substance use disorders,\u00a0severe mental illness,\u00a0ADHD and quality improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duncan&#8217;s\u00a0research\u00a0currently focuses on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Improving parent-adolescent communication for parents of adolescents with ADHD using Motivational Interviewing\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Exploring the feasibility of implicit association testing for suicidality in the emergency department<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with serious mental illness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Emergency psychiatric services utilization<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Duncan&#8217;s\u00a0research is currently supported by multiple grants, including t<span>he<\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\">\u00a0AACAP Pilot\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\">Research Award for Attention Disorders, supported by\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\">AACAP\u2019s Elaine Schlosser Lewis Fund and the Gennaro\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\">Acampora<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXP104796403 BCX0\">\u00a0Junior Investigator Pilot Award<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXP104796403 BCX0\"><\/span><span>.<\/span><span> Dr. Duncan\u00a0<\/span>received her Bachelor\u2019s Degrees in Music Theater and Economics from The Hartt School and The University of Hartford in 1998 and her Medical Degree from The Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine in 2013. She completed her General Psychiatry Residency at The University of New Mexico in 2016\u00a0and her\u00a0Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Brown University\/Bradley Hospital\u00a0in 2018, during which time she was also awarded the NIDA-AACAP Resident Training Award in Substance Use Disorders. She\u00a0is Board Certi<span>fied in both Adu<\/span>lt Psychiatry and in Child &amp; Adolescent Psychiatry.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duncan\u00a0sings\u00a0with Coro Allegro, Boston&#8217;s LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus. She is often accompanied in the hospital by her dog, Cocoa, whose therapeutic skills are in high demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alison Duncan is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Boston Medical Center, where she is also the Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services. She has both clinical and research expertise in emergency psychiatry, pediatric consult-liaison psychiatry, family communication, suicide, substance use disorders,\u00a0severe mental illness,\u00a0ADHD and quality improvement. Dr. Duncan&#8217;s\u00a0research\u00a0currently focuses on: Improving parent-adolescent communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13837,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/668\/revisions\/694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/reach4adhd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}