Dr. Michael John Durfee M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
210 Starlight Crest Dr La Canada Flintridge CA, 91011About
Dr. Michael Durfee practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in La Canada Flintridge, CA. Dr. Durfee 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. Durfee seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California 1968
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Origins and clinical relevance of child death review teams.
- Response to commentary by N. Fost on Ethical considerations in testing victims of sexual abuse for HIV infection.
- Developing guidelines for HIV antibody testing among victims of pediatric sexual abuse.
- Augmenting Predictive Modeling Tools with Clinical Insights for Care Coordination Program Design and Implementation.
- HIV infection and child abuse.
- Fatalities assessed by the Orange County child death review team, 1989 to 1991.
- Child sexual abuse in the Church: the ethics of throwing stones in glass houses.
- Testing the sexually abused child for the HIV antibody: issues for the social worker.
- Situational and sociodemographic characteristics of children infected with human immunodeficiency virus from pediatric sexual abuse.
- AIDS and child sexual abuse.
- Twins and HIV.
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