David S Mandell
University of Pennsylvania · Rehabilitation Medicine
Active 1993–2026
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About
David S Mandell is the Kenneth E. Appel Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. He is a research affiliate at the Population Studies Center and a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Mandell serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Autism Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is the director of the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research within the Department of Psychiatry. His research expertise focuses on children's psychiatric epidemiology and children's mental health services research. Mandell's work involves examining disparities in mental health diagnosis and treatment among children, autism spectrum disorders, and the use of psychotropic medications in children with autism. He has contributed to understanding ethnic disparities in special education labeling, autism diagnosis, and mental health service utilization, and has been involved in developing evidence-based approaches to prevention and treatment of childhood behavioral issues.
Research topics
- Psychology
- Developmental psychology
- Pediatrics
- Psychiatry
- Family medicine
- Demography
- Applied psychology
- Social psychology
- Medicine
- Marketing
Selected publications
Timing of the Diagnosis of Autism in African American Children
PEDIATRICS · 2020-08-24 · 241 citations
articleOpen accessOBJECTIVES: African American (AA) children affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) experience delays in diagnosis and obstacles to service access, as well as a disproportionate burden of intellectual disability (ID) as documented in surveillance data recently published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our objective in this study was to analyze data from the largest-available repository of diagnostic and phenotypic information on AA children with ASD, and to explore the wi…
A pragmatic method for costing implementation strategies using time-driven activity-based costing
Implementation Science · 2020-05-05 · 191 citations
articleOpen accessBACKGROUND: Implementation strategies increase the adoption of evidence-based practices, but they require resources. Although information about implementation costs is critical for decision-makers with budget constraints, cost information is not typically reported in the literature. This is at least partly due to a need for clearly defined, standardized costing methods that can be integrated into implementation effectiveness evaluation efforts. METHODS: We present a pragmatic approach to systema…
To address racial disparities in autism research, we must think globally, act locally
Autism · 2020-09-30 · 111 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorPLoS ONE · 2020 · 71 citations
OBJECTIVES: Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for all young children, disparities in ASD diagnosis and intervention in minority children persist. One potential contributor to disparities could be whether physicians take different actions after an initial positive screen based on patient demographics. This study estimated factors associated with physicians completing the follow-up interview for the Modified Checklist for Autism in…
Research in autism spectrum disorders · 2021 · 17 citations
Numerous studies have shown that racial/ethnic minority and under-resourced families face barriers that delay timely access to autism services. These barriers include lack of resources and information about autism, financial hardship, mistrust in the service system, cultural and language mismatch, and other factors that have yet to be identified. The current study aimed to examine additional caregiver and system-level factors that could be associated with early service access using a diverse sam…
Recent grants
NIH · $2.8M · 2014
NIH · $671k · 2010
NIH · $2.7M · 2020
Frequent coauthors
- 139 shared
Andrea Knight
University of Toronto
- 133 shared
Zuleyha Cidav
University of Pennsylvania
- 130 shared
Alaina M. Davis
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- 125 shared
Tamar B. Rubinstein
Children's Hospital at Montefiore
- 116 shared
Steven C. Marcus
- 114 shared
Jennifer Pinto‐Martin
University of Pennsylvania
- 103 shared
Marisa S. Klein‐Gitelman
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- 102 shared
Hannah Katcoff
University of Pennsylvania
Awards & honors
- Kenneth E. Appel Professor
- Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of…
- Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics,…
- Associate Director, Center for Autism Research, The Children…
- Senior Fellow, Center for Public Health Initiatives, Univers…
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