Overview
Pete Duquette joined the Division of Child and Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry and will be the Director of the Pediatric Neuropsychology Clinic. He earned a PhD in School Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2007 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Neuropsychology at Children’s National Hospital in 2009. Dr. Duquette is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. He specializes in assessment, consultation, and brief intervention with children, adolescents, and young adults with epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and hematology-oncology conditions. Dr. Duquette also serves as the team neuropsychologist for concussion management to several sports teams in the area, including the Carolina Hurricanes (NHL) and NC Courage (NWSL).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Recent Publications
Ratings of Parenting Stress in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease
Preprint · March 10, 2025 Full text CiteA study protocol for risk stratification in children with concussion (RSiCC): Theoretical framework, design, and methods.
Journal Article PLoS One · 2024 Research shows that one in five children will experience a concussion by age 16. Compared to adults, children experience longer and more severe postconcussive symptoms (PCS), with severity and duration varying considerably among children and complicating m ... Full text Link to item CiteDifferential Attention Functioning in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease
Journal Article Frontiers in Human Neuroscience · June 24, 2022 ObjectiveTo compare specific attention functions for school-age children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to those of a typically developing control group.Methods Full text CiteRecent Grants
A Risk Stratification Model for Health and Academic Outcomes in Children with Concussion Based on Novel Symptom Trajectory Typologies
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2028View All Grants