Outpatient: Conduct clinics through the Pediatrics Department for children and adolescents with behavioral and developmental disorders, problems of compliance with medical treatment, adjustment to chronic disease and pain management problems. Conduct Pediatric Psychology Clinic one day per week in Lawrence, KS., a half-day per week at KU Medical Center, and a half-day at Prairie Village, KS Pediatric Outpatient Clinic. Supervise clinical activities of graduate students in Clinical and Clinical Child Psychology and pediatric residents. Dr. Rapoff provides clinical services for 18 outpatients and their families per week for 11 months out of the year.
Inpatient consults: On call one day per week (Wednesdays) and one weekend every eight weeks.
Academic Service:
Departmental (Pediatrics):
Member, Faculty Development Committee
Member, Research and Scholarship Committee
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee
Director, Pediatric Mentoring Program
Vice-Chair; Research and Scholarship (ended 2012)
School of Medicine:
Served as Member of the School of Medicine Research Committee and the Promotion and Tenure Committee
1982-1984: Member, Committee on Public Education, Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy
1989-1991: Member, Parent/Patient Educational Materials Subcommittee, American Juvenile Arthritis Organization
1990: Reviewer, Research and Program abstracts submitted to Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals of the American College of Rheumatology annual meetings
Dec.1 2, 1992: Member, General Clinical Research Centers Site visit Committee, National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
1992 1993: Member, C.H.A.D.D. Professional Advisory Board, Kansas City Chapter (organization for parents of children with ADHD)
Feb. 1993: Reviewer of proposal, Early Interventions to Prevent Disability in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, by Kristofer Hagglund, PhD., University of Missouri, Arthritis Center, for submission to National Institute Disability and Rehabilitation Research
June, 1993: Reviewer of proposal: A Study of Caretaker Compliance Using an Antibiotic Blister Pack for Children in Developing Countries, for World Health Organization
1995 1997: Member, Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals Slide Collection Task Force
1995 1998: Member, Review Panel, National Office of the Arthritis Foundation. The panel
reviews educational materials (books, videotapes, etc.) intended for people with arthritis
1995: Member, Planning Committee, Adult Program Coordinators, American Juvenile Arthritis Organization, Annual Meeting
Oct. 1995: Reviewer of proposal, Enhancing Adherence to Misoprostol among Patients Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis by Ralph Diclemente, PhD., University of Alabama Birmingham, Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases center, for submission to National Institute of Health
2001-2003: Member, Task Force on Empirically Supported Assessments in Pediatric Psychology, Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54, American Psychological Association
2001-2003: Member, Committee on Research, American College of Rheumatology, Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
2002: Peer Reviewer for the Guideline for the Management of Pain in Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Juvenile Chronic Arthritis, American Pain Society
2002: Consultant to the Starbright Foundation (“…dedicated to the development of projects that empower seriously ill children to combat the medical and emotional challenges they face on a daily basis”) on developing educational materials for patients and families on psychosocial aspects of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
2003-2005: Chair, Study Section D Peer Review Panel, American College of Rheumatology, Research and Education Foundation
2005: Ad Hoc Reviewer, grant proposal submitted to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
2003-2007: Member, Data and Safety Monitoring Board, NIH Grant, Reducing barriers to pediatric asthma treatment adherence: A randomized controlled study, PI: Dennis Drotar, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
2004-2010: Member, Data and Safety Monitoring Board, NIH Grant, Randomized controlled trial in juvenile fibromyalgia, PI: Susmita Kashikar-Zuck, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2006-2008: Member, Scientific Advisory Council, American College of Rheumatology, Research and Education Foundation.
March, 2006: External Reviewer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Research Growth Initiative; reviewed one proposal.
January 2007-2009: Member, Editorial Board of Health Psychology
Dr. Rapoff has also reviewed articles submitted for publication to the following journals: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Arthritis Care and Research, Arthritis and Rheumatism, Behavior Therapy, Chest, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Asthma, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, and Pediatrics.
Primary reviewer for NIH (NIDDK) K23 application, March 8, 2007.
Member, Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Centers (P6) Council ZAR1 CHW-G J2 1, NIAMS (NIH) 10/18/07 & 10/19/07, Gaithersburg, MD; Primary reviewer on three applications.
2008- 2011: Member, Advisory Committee for “Teens taking charge: Managing arthritis on-line”, Drs. Patrick McGrath (Halifax University) and Jennifer Stinson (Toronto Hospital for Sick Children) PIs.
2007-2010: Associate Editor, Journal of Pediatric Psychology
2008-2010: At-Large Member of the Nomination’s Committee of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (American College of Rheumatology).
Reviewer of Grant Applications, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, ZRG1-RPHB-H (02), December 19, 2008
Reviewer of Grant Applications, National Center on Minority Health and Disparities Special Emphasis Panel, National Institutes of Health, ZMD1 PA (10), August 10, 2009.
Member, Review Panel, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, May 14, 2010.
2012-2014, Member, E-Learning Subcommittee, Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals (American College of Rheumatology).
2003-present: Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Pediatric Psychology
2011- present, Member Headache Common Data Elements (CDEs) Working Group, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The goal of this working group is to establish headache-specific measures that will be recommended for use in clinical research studies to standardize measures across studies and allow for more meaningful reviews and meta-analyses of studies.
2012- President-Elect, Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association.
2013- President, Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association.
2014-Past-President, Society of Pediatric Psychology, Division 54 of the American Psychological Association.
2012-2014, Member Editorial Board for the journal, Arthritis Care and Research.
2011-present, Member Consortium Child Health Oversight Committee of Frontiers: The Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.
2011-2012, Safety Officer for NIAMS funded study “WebSMART: Efficacy of web-based pain self-management for adolescents with JIA”, Mark Connelly, Ph.D. (PI) and Jennifer Stinson, Ph.D. (CO-PI).
March, 2012, reviewed grant application for Frontiers: The Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Pilot and Collaborative Studies Funding Program (FY2012), University of Kansas Medical Center.
Chairperson, NICHD/NIH Special Emphasis Review Panel, grant applications in response to RFA-HD-12-206, “Improving adherence to treatment regimens for HIV-positive adolescents and young adults”, June 28-29, 2012; Washington, D.C.
Study Section Member and Reviewer, Frontiers/Clinical/Lied Pilot Grant Program, KU Medical Center Research Institute, December 2012-2014.
2011- present, Chair, Data and Safety Monitoring Board, for NIH-funded project “Telehealth enhancement of adherence to medications in pediatric IBD”, Kevin Hommel, Ph.D., PI at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Review Panel Member, grants submitted to Friends of CARRA, September 5, 2013
2013 – present, Chair, Data and Safety Monitoring Board, for NIH-funded project, “ Supporting treatment adherence regimens for pediatric epilepsy: The STAR trial”, Avani Modi, Ph.D., PI at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
November 2014 – Reviewer of abstracts (22) submitted for consideration as a poster or paper presentation for the 2015 National Conference of the Society of Pediatric Psychology.
2014-present, Member Ad Hoc Committee for the Society of Pediatric Psychology YouTube Channel and conduct peer reviews of submitted presentation that would be loaded to the YouTube page.
2015-present, Director of the Department of Pediatrics Mentoring Program (previously served from 2007-2012)
March 31, 2014 – January 6, 2016, Member, Research Misconduct Investigation Committee (RIO2014-01) for the University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Medicine, Office of Research Integrity.
Member, Review Panel, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Special Emphasis Panel, ADK1 GRB-S (M3), February 8, 2016.
Member, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Special Emphasis Panel, ZHD1 DRG-D (ZK), March 14, 2016.
Member, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Common Data Element, Working Group, 2016-2017
Dr. Rapoff is often asked to conduct external evaluations for faculty being considered for promotion and tenure at other universities.
