Curriculum Vitae

1.      Date

October 5, 2008

2.      Name

Daniel S. Messinger (dmessinger@miami.edu)

3.      Home Address

5.      Rank

Associate Professor

6.      Primary Department

Psychology

7.      Secondary Department

Pediatrics 

8.      Phone

Work: 305-284-8443, Fax: 305-284-4795

9.      Address

Department of Psychology, 341 Flipse Building, University of Miami, P.O. Box 249229, Coral Gables, FL 33101-0721

10.  Citizenship

United States

Higher Education

11.  Institutional

Ph.D., 1994

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Psychology (Developmental). 

M.A., 1988

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Human Development. 

B.A., 1985

Haverford College, Haverford, PA. Independent Psychology major, Sociology minor.

Experience

14.  Academic

2003-present

Associate Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics, University of Miami.

1998-2003

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics, University of Miami.

1995-1998

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology, University of Miami Medical School.

1994-1995

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Medical School.

1993-1994

Senior Research Associate. Department of Pediatrics, University of Miami Medical School.

Publications

17B. Chapters

Messinger, D. (2008 ). Smiling. In M. M. Haith & J. B. Benson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development, Vol. 3, pp. 186-198. Oxford: Elsevier.

Messinger, D. S. & Lester, B.M. (2007). Prenatal substance exposure and human development. In Fogel, A., King, B. J., & Shanker, S. (Eds.), Human Development in the 21st Century: Visionary Policy Ideas from Systems Scientists (pp. 225-232). Council on Human Development: Bethesda, MD.

Messinger, D. (2006). Smiling. In N. J. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Human Development (Vol. 3, pp. 1183-1185). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Messinger, D. S. (2005). A measure of early joy? Afterword to the re-publication of “All smiles are positive, but some smiles are more positive than others” in P. Ekman & E. Rosenberg (Eds.), What the face reveals: Studies of spontaneous facial expression using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) (2nd Ed.) (pp. 350-353). Oxford University Press.

Lavelli, M., Pantoja, P. F., Hsu, H., Messinger, D. & Fogel, A. (2005). Using microgenetic designs to study change processes. In D. G. Teti (Ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Psychology (pp. 41-65). Blackwell.

Bolzani, L., Messinger, D. S., Yale, M. E., Dondi, M. (2002). Smiling in Infancy. In Millicent H. Abel (Ed.), An empirical reflection on the smile (pp. 111-135). New York: The Edwin Mellen Press. 

Dickson, K. L., Fogel, A., & Messinger, D. (1998). The development of emotion from a social process view. In M. F. Mascolo & S.Griffin (Eds.) What develops in emotional development? (pp. 253-271). New York: Plenum.

Fogel, A., Dickson, K. L., Hsu, H., Messinger, D., Nelson, C. M., Nwokah, E. (1997). Communication of smiling and laughter in mother-infant play: Research on emotion from a dynamic systems perspective. In K. C. Barrett (Ed.) The communication of emotion: Current research from diverse perspectives (pp. 5-24). San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

Messinger, D., Fogel, A., & Dickson, K. L. (1997). A dynamic systems approach to infant facial action. In J. A. Russell and F. M. Dols (Eds.) The psychology of facial expression (pp. 205-226). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Fogel, A., Stevenson, P., & Messinger, D. (1992). A comparison of the parent-child relationship in Japan and the United States. In J. L. Roopnarine & D. B. Carter (Eds.), Parent-child socialization in diverse cultural contexts (pp. 35-51). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Walker, H., Messinger, D., Fogel, A., & Karns, J. (1992). Social and communicative development in infancy. In V. B. Van Hasselt & M. Hersen (Eds.), Handbook of social development: A lifespan perspective (pp. 157-181). New York: Plenum Press.

18. Articles 

Parlade, M. V., Messinger, D. S., van Hecke, A., Kaiser, M., Delgado, C., & Mundy, P. (2008). Anticipatory Smiling: Linking Early Affective Communication and Social Outcome. Infant Behavior & Development, in press.

Zwaigenbaum, L., Bryson, S., Lord, C., Rogers, S., Carter, A., Carver, L., Chawarska, K., Constantino, J., Dawson, G., Dobkins, K., Fein, D., Iverson, J., Klin, A., Landa, R., Messinger, D., et al. (in press). Clinical Assessment and Management of Toddlers in Suspected ASD: Insights from Studies of High-Risk Infants. Pediatrics.

Messinger, D. S., Mahoor, M., Chow, S., & Cohn, J. F. (2008). Continuously Automated Measurement of Facial Expression in Infant-Mother Interaction: A Pilot Study. Infancy, in press.

Ibanez, L., Messinger, D. Newell, L., Sheskin, M. Lambert, B. (2008). Visual disengagement in the infant siblings of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 12, 523–535..

Messinger, D.S. Cassel, T. Acosta, S., Ambadar, Z. Cohn, J. F. (2008). Infant Smiling Dynamics and Perceived Positive Emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 32, 133-155.

Messinger, D. & Fogel, A. (2007). The interactive development of social smiling. In Robert Kail (ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 35, 327-366. Oxford: Elsevier.

Messinger, D.S. (2007). Emerging Motivation: Modeling Early Interactive Emotional Development. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Lund University Cognitive Studies, 134, 5-12. Rutgers, NJ.

Dondi, M., Messinger, D., Colle, M., Tabasso, A., Simion, F., Dalla Barba, B., & Fogel, A. (2007). A new perspective on neonatal smiling: Differences between the judgments of expert coders and naïve observers. Infancy, 12, 1-21.

Cassel, T., Messinger, D. S., Ibanez, L., Haltigan, J.D., Acosta, S., Buchman, A. (2007). Early social and emotional communication in the infant siblings of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An examination of the broad phenotype. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 122–132.

Bolzani-Dinehart, L., Messinger, D. S., Acosta, S., Cassel, T., Ambadar, Z., & Cohn, J. (2005). Adult Perceptions of Positive and Negative Infant Emotional Expressions. Infancy, 8, 279-303.

Tronick, E. Z., Messinger, D. S., Weinberg, K. Lester, B. M., LaGasse, L. & Seifer, Bauer, R. C., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Wright, L. L., Smeriglio, V. L., Poole, K., Liu, J. (2005). Cocaine Exposure Is Associated with Subtle Compromises of Infants’ and Mothers’ Social Emotional Behavior and Dyadic Features of their Interaction in the Face-to-Face Still-Face Paradigm. Developmental Psychology, 41, 711-722.

Uhlhorn, S. B., Messinger, D. S., & Bauer, C. (2005). Cocaine exposure and mother–toddler social play Infant Behavior and Development, 28, 62-73.

Venezia, M., Messinger, D. S., Thorp, D., & Mundy, P. (2004). The Development of Anticipatory Smiling. Infancy, 6(3), 397–406.

Messinger, D. S., Bauer, C. R., Das, A., Seifer, R., Lester, B. M., LaGasse, L. L., Wright, L. L.,  Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Smeriglio, V., Langer, J. C., Beeghly, M. & Poole, K. (2004). The Maternal Lifestyle Study (MLS): Cognitive, motor, and behavioral outcomes of cocaine exposed and opiate exposed infants through three years of age. Pediatrics, 6, 1677-1685.

LaGasse, L. L., Messinger, D. S., Lester, B. M., Seifer, R., Tronick, E. Z., Bauer, C. R., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Wright, L. L., Smeriglio, V., Finnegan, L. P. & Maza, P. (2003). Prenatal drug exposure and maternal and infant feeding behavior. Archives of Disease in Childhood  Fetal Neonatal Edition, 88, F391–F399.

Yale, M. E., Messinger, D. S., Cobo-Lewis, A. B. (2003). The temporal coordination of early infant communication. Developmental Psychology, 39(5), 815-824.

Delgado, E. F. Messinger, D. S. & Yale., M. E. (2002). Infant responses to direction of parental gaze:  A comparison of two still-face conditions. Infant Behavior and Development, 25(2), 188-195.

Messinger, D. S. (2002). Positive and negative: Infant facial expressions and emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11(1) 1-6.

Messinger, D. Dondi, M. G. Nelson-Goens, C., Beghi, A., Fogel, A., & Simion, F. (2002). How sleeping neonates smile. Developmental Science, 5(1), 49-55.

Messinger, D., Fogel, A., & Dickson, K. L. (2001). All smiles are positive, but some smiles are more positive than others. Developmental Psychology, 37(5), 642-653.

Hsu, H., Fogel, A. & Messinger, D. (2001). Infant non-distress vocalizations during mother-infant face-to-face interaction: Factors associated with quantitative and qualitative differences. Infant Behavior and Development, 24, 107-128.

Morales, M., Mundy, P., Fullmer, C., Yale, M., Messinger, D., Neal, R., & Schwartz, H. (2000). Responding to joint attention across the 6- to 24-month age period and early language acquisition. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 21(3), 283-298.

Messinger, D., Fogel, A., & Dickson, K. L. (1999). What's in a smile? Developmental Psychology, 35(3), 701-708.

Gauthier, S., Bauer, C., Messinger, D., & Closius, J. (1999). Bayley Scales Of Infant Development II – Where to start? The Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 20(2), 75-79.

Yale, M., Messinger, D., Cobo-Lewis, A., Oller, D. K., & Eilers, R., (1999). An event-based analysis of the coordination of early infant vocalizations and facial actions. Developmental Psychology, 35(2), 505–513.

Fogel, A., Messinger, D. S. Dickson, K. L., & Hsu, Hui-chin, H. (1999). Posture and gaze in early mother-infant communication: Synchronization of developmental trajectories. Developmental Science, 2(3), 325-332.

Messinger, D. & Fogel, A. (1998). Give and take: The development of conventional infant gestures. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 44(4), 566-590.

Messinger, D. Dolcourt, J., King, J., Bodnar, A., & Beck, D. (1996). The survival and developmental outcome of extremely low birthweight infants. Infant Mental Health Journal, 17(4), 375-385.

Franco, F., Fogel, A., Messinger, D. S., & Frazier, C. A. (1996). Cultural differences in physical contact between Hispanic and Anglo mother-infant dyads living in the United States. Early Development and Parenting 5(3), 119-127.

Martinez, A., Malphur, J., Field, T., Pickens, J., Yando, R., Bendell, D., Valle, C., & Messinger, D. (1996). Depressed mothers’ and their infants’ interactions with nondepressed parents. Infant Mental Health Journal, 17(1), 74-80.

Teti, D. M., Gelfand, D. M., Messinger, D. S., & Isabella, R. (1995). Maternal depression and the quality of early attachment: An examination of infants, preschoolers, and their mothers. Developmental Psychology 31(3), 364-376.

Messinger, D. & Freedman, D. (1992). Autonomy and interdependence in Japanese and American mother-toddler dyads. Early Development and Parenting, 1(1) 33-38.

Fogel, A., Nwokah, E., Dedo, J. Y., Messinger, D., Dickson, K. L., Matusov, E., & Holt, S. A. (1992). Social process theory of emotion: A dynamic systems approach. Social Development, 1(2) 122-142.

Fogel, A., Nwokah, E., Dedo, J. Y., Messinger, D., Dickson, K. L., Matusov, E., & Holt, S. A. (1992). The social process theory of emotion: A radical contextualist perspective. Social Development, 1(2) 147-150.

Professional

21. Funded Research 

2008-2012

INT2-Large: Collaborative Research: Developing Social Robots (0808767). PI with Javier Movellan. National Science Foundation ($250,000). Explores the fundamental developmental question - How does new behavior emerge? – through microgenetic examination of early communicative and motor development.

Automated measurement of facial expression in autism: Deficits in facial nerve function? Autism Speaks. ($450,000 PI with Jeffrey Cohn & Peter Mundy). Investigates whether deficits in facial expressivity in children with autism are due to physiological or emotional factors.

A Multi-Site Clinical Randomized Trial of the Hanen More than Words Intervention. Autism Speaks ($317,415, PI with A. Carter, W. Stone, & P. Yoder). This multi-site, randomized control-group study will test the efficacy of a popular parent-training intervention for children under two appear to be on the autism spectrum.

Emotion, Communication, & EEG: Development & Risk (HD047417). National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($1,037,500, PI). A longitudinal analysis of the affective and social communication development of the infant siblings of children with autism.   

Naive Observers' Ratings of Behavior: A Multi-Construct Validation Study (R21HD052062, PI, $275,000). Tests the validity of observers' real-time ratings of constructs ranging from familial hostility to maternal sensitivity to infant emotion. Free rating software.

Validating a transparent measurement system: Non-expert observers’ continuous ratings. General Research Support Award, University Research Council ($4991, PI).

2004-2005

Automated assessment of possible deficits in positive emotion communication among infants with autistic siblings. University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences Small Grant ($24,470, PI).

2004-2006

Developing Deficits in Infant Siblings of Children with ASD: Emotional Communication & Psychophysiological Functioning (#855). National Alliance for Autism Research ($105,891, PI).

2004-2005

Automated Measurement of Infant Facial Expressions and Human Ratings of Their Emotional Intensity (0418400). National Science Foundation ($100,000, PI with Jeffrey Cohn)

Automated Assessment of Emotional Communication Among Infants with an Autistic Sibling. University Research Council ($4992, PI).

2004

Sponsor: "Does viewing  images of infant smiles increase positive mood in the elderly?" (Tricia Cassel PI). Graduate Fellowship in Aging. University of Miami Center on Aging ($2,000).

2003-2004

Does Smiling in the Face of Adversity Predict Optimal Outcomes? Grant from the Positive Psychology Network ($10,000, PI).

2003-2004  

A Multi-Method Investigation of Infant Emotion (HD416190-01S1). Research Supplement For Underrepresented Minorities. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($29,472, PI).

2002-2004  

A Multi-Method Investigation of Infant Emotion (HD41619). National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($100,000, PI). (Selected by NICHD as an exemplar for new grant applicants.)

2001

Facial Markers of Intense Positive and Negative Emotion. General Research Support Award. University Research Council ($4,400, PI).

2000-2003

The Temporal Coordination of Infant Social Actions (HD38336). National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ($100,000, PI).

2000

Undergraduate Research Laboratory in Applied Developmental Psychology (PI with Katherine Fletcher, Ph.D.). Provost Award ($10,200).

1994

Emergency Request for Institutional Funding. University of Miami Medical School. Pediatric EEG ($4,085, PI).

1992

Summer Research Grant. Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah. Psychological outcomes of low birth weight infants ($5,000, PI).

2000-2008

Infancy

2002-2008

Child Development

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: PPID, Cognition, Neurotoxicology & Teratology.

2000-2003, 2006-2008

Emotion

1999-2008

Developmental Psychology.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, The Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, Prospectus. Patterson, C. Child Development. McGraw-Hill. Prospectus. Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition. Susan D. Calkins & Martha Ann Bell (Eds.). APA Books.

2002-2004, 2006

Infant Behavior and Development

2003-2005

National Science Foundation: Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate.

2003, 2005

Emotional Development Panel of the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

2003-2004

2004

Emotional Development Panel of the Society for Research in Child Development

2004

2003

Lamb, M. E., Bornstein, M. H., & Teti, D. M. (2002). Development in Infancy (4th Ed.). Erlbaum.

2003

Affect and Temperament Panel of the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development

2002

1999-2001

American Journal on Mental Retardation

2000

Infant and Child Development

1999

Social Development Panel of the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

1997

Emotional Development Panel of the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies

1994-1995

Early Development and Parenting & Social Development

1991-1994

Child Development & Developmental Psychology (Student Reviewer)

23. Professional Organizations

1991-present

Member: International Society for Infant Studies 

1991-present

Member: American Psychological Association 

1996-present

International Society for Research on Emotion

1988-present

Society for Research in Child Development 

24. Awards

2004

James W. McLamore Summer Award in Business and The Social Sciences, University of Miami. "Predicting Referential Communication Among Typically-Developing and At-Risk Infants."

2002

MUSE Award, Contributions to the Undergraduate Program, Psychology Department, University of Miami.

2000

James W. McLamore Summer Award in Business and The Social Sciences, University of Miami. “The intensification of positive and negative facial expressions in infancy.”

1999

James W. McLamore Summer Award in Business and The Social Sciences, University of Miami. “Positive and negative facial expressions in infancy.”

1992-1993

American Psychological Association Science Directorate Dissertation Research Award. 

1991-1993

University Research Committee Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Utah. "The Development of Infant Smiling." 

1992-1993

Professional Development Award. Department of Psychology, University of Utah.

1992

International Society for Infant Studies Student Presentation Award. "Infant and mother interactive smiles: Morphological and temporal characteristics."

1989-1990

National Institute of Mental Health, Trainee, Department of Psychology, University of Utah.

Professional Activities

26A. Presentations

Messinger, D. (2008) Baby-Sibs: Infants At-Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and the Broad Autism Phenotype (BAP). Paper presented at L'università degli Studi di Cagliari hosted by Azienda Ospedaliera “G. Brotzu.”

Messinger, D.S.  Mahoor, M., Cadavid, S. Chow, S. Cohn, J.F. (2008). Early Interactive Emotional Development. Poster presented at the IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning. Monterey, CA.

Messinger, D.S. & Cohn, J. (2008). Early Interactive Emotional Development: Manual and Automated FACS Approaches. Invited talk at the 12th European Conference on Facial Expressions. Geneva, Switzerland.

Mohammad H. Mahoor, M. H., Messinger, D. S., Ibanez, L., Kimijima, M., Wang, Y., Cadavid, S. & Cohn, J.F.  (2008). Studying Facial Expressions Using Manifold Learning and Support Vector Machines,  Poster to be presented at IEEE 7th International Conference on Development and Learning, Monterey, California.

Rosenberg, E., Messinger, D.S. & Cohn, J. (2008). Advanced FACS Methodological Issues. Presented at the 12th European Conference on Facial Expressions. Geneva, Switzerland.

Messinger, D.S. Cassel, T., Ambadar, Z. Cohn, J. F. (2008). Infant Smiling Dynamics and Perceived Positive Emotion. Presented at the 12th European Conference on Facial Expressions. Geneva, Switzerland.

Haltigan, J.D., Messinger, D.S., MacDonald, N. (2008). Empathic Responding and Attachment Security in Young Children At Risk for an Autism Spectrum Disorder.  Presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). London, UK.

Messinger, D. Cassel, T., Ibanez, L. Haltigan, J.D., Acosta, S. & Kelley, K.  (2008).  Emotion, Attention, and Joint Attention in Infants at Risk for Autism.  Presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR). London, UK.

Mahoor, M. H., Messinger, D. S., Kimijima M., Brewster R., Kelley, K. M., & Cohn, J. F. (2008). Automatic Measurement of Smile Intensity. Paper presented at the Marino Autism Research Institute Scientific Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

Messinger, D. (2008). Core concepts in understanding and treating autism. Presented at "Masters of Pediatrics," Miami Beach, FL.

Ibanez, L., Grantz, C., Messinger, D., Cassel, T., Haltigan, J., Acosta, S.,  & Kelley, K. (2008, March). Early Gaze Shifting and Joint Attention in Infants at-risk for Autism.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.

Messinger, D. (2007). Development of emotional communication. Paper presented at the Workshop on Transactional Emotions, Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California.

Messinger, D., Cassel, T., Ibanez, L., Haltigan, J.D., & Acosta, S. (2007). Early Social & Emotional Communication in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Ibanez, L., Lambert, B., Newell, L., Sheskin, M. and Messinger, D. (2007). Gaze shifting in the infant siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, Washington.

Fernandez, C. A., Messinger, D., and Ibanez, L. (2007). Temperament in the infant siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder. Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, Washington.

Haltigan, J.D., Messinger, D.S., Chow, Sy-Miin, Jaccard, J., and Wang, T. (2007). Continuous emotion ratings of infants at risk for autism and their parents. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.

Haltigan, J. D., Messinger, D. S., Sy-Miin, C., Jaccard, J., and Wang, T. (2007). Continuous measurement of infant and parent emotional valence in the face-to-face still-face paradigm: Infants at risk for autism.  Poster to be presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research, Seattle, Washington.

Messinger, D. (2007). The early development of autism and the broader phenotype. Presented at "Masters of Pediatrics," Miami Beach, FL.

Messinger, D., Cassel, T., Ibanez, L., Haltigan, J.D., & Acosta, S. (2006). Early Social & Emotional Communication in Infant Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.

Haltigan, J.D., Messinger, D., Chow, S., Linick, J., Wang, T., & Jaccard, J. (2006). Time-based measurement of interaction emotion using non-expert observers. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE), Atlanta, GA.

Linick, J., Messinger, D., & Haltigan, J.D., Chow, S., Linick, J., Wang, T., & Jaccard, J. (2006). Continuous ratings of infant and parent emotional expressivity. Poster presented at the annual conference of the International Society for Infant Studies. Kyoto, Japan.

Ibanez, L., Messinger, D., Ambadar, Z., Brewster, R. & Cohn, J. Automated Measurement of Infant and Mother Interactive Smiling. Poster presented to the Association for Psychological Science. NY, NY.

Haltigan, JD, Messinger, D., Chow, S., Linick, J., Wang, T., & Jaccard, J. (2006). Emotion Ratings From Continuous Rating Software: Reliability, Validity, & Applicability. Poster presented to the Association for Psychological Science. NY, NY.

Cassel, T., Messinger, D., Acosta, S., Haltigan, J., & Linick, J. (2005). Emotional deficits in infants with siblings with autism spectrum disorders? Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.

Vaillant-Molina, M., Ibanez, L. V., Messinger, D. S., & Bahrick, L. E. (2005). Young infants’ perception of emotional expressions of other infants. Poster presented at the International Society for Research on Emotions Conference, Bari, Italy.

Messinger, D.S., Chow, S. M., Koterba, S.Hu, C., Haltigan, J. D., Wang, T., & Cohn, J. F. (2005). Smile and Emotion Dynamics in Infant-Mother Interaction. Paper presented at the International Society for Research in Emotion, Bari, Italy.

Hammond, J., Messinger, D., Das, A., LaGasse, L., Miller-Loncar, C., Higgins, R., Lester, B., Shankaran, S., Bada, H., Bauer, C., Wright, L., Smeriglio, V., & Bhaskar., B. (2005). Actigraphic measurements of children prenatally exposed to cocaine: Measuring the fidget factor. Paper presented at the Society for Pediatric Research, Washington, D.C.

Hamlin-Smith, K. Daniel Messinger, D, & Bauer, CR (May, 2005). Relationship of Bayley Behavior Rating Scales (BRS) to Concurrent and Future Mental and Motor Development in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Infants. Poster presented at at the Society for Pediatric Research, Washington, DC. 

Messinger, D.S., Gaby, J., Haltigan, J. D., Chow, S. M., Koterba, S.Hu, C., Venez