Dr. Heather J. Fullerton MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
505 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Heather Fullerton practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Fullerton evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Fullerton seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Vascular Neurology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Arterial dissection and stroke in children.
- Back to school on APS: rethinking the risk of recurrent stroke in children.
- Declining stroke rates in Californian children with sickle cell disease.
- Declining diagnosis of birth asphyxia in California: 1991-2000.
- The emerging quandary of childhood stoke: better aim but no magic bullet.
- Time trends and demographics of deaths from congenital hydrocephalus in children in the United States: National Center for Health Statistics data, 1979 to 1998.
- Pediatric stroke initiatives and preliminary studies: What is known and what is needed?
- Kinky vessels and double joints: useful clues for childhood stroke?
- Obstacles to primary stroke prevention in children with sickle cell disease.
- Thrombolytic therapy for ischemic stroke--suitable for children?
- Recent developments in childhood arterial ischaemic stroke.
- Treatment of childhood arterial ischemic stroke.
- Male predominance in childhood ischemic stroke: findings from the international pediatric stroke study.
- The importance of cerebral aneurysms in childhood hemorrhagic stroke: a population-based study.
- Prevalence and predictors of perinatal hemorrhagic stroke: results from the kaiser pediatric stroke study.
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