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Sarah R O'Rourke

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
90600, Durham, NC 27708
2608 Erwin Rd. Lakeview Pavilion, Suite 300, Durham, NC 27705

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · 2021 - Present Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Recent Publications


Anxiety Symptoms and Disorders in College Students With ADHD.

Journal Article J Atten Disord · October 2020 Objective: This study examined anxiety symptoms and disorders in college students with ADHD. Method: Forty-six college students with ADHD and a matched group of students without ADHD participated. Participants completed self-report measures of anxiety symp ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for College Students With ADHD: Temporal Stability of Improvements in Functioning Following Active Treatment.

Journal Article J Atten Disord · April 2020 Objective: This study examined the extent to which college students with ADHD continued to benefit from a cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) program beyond the active phase of treatment. Method: In successive cohorts over a 4-year period, a total of 88 col ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Emotional and Behavioral Impact of Delivering Bad News to Virtual versus Real Standardized Patients: A Pilot Study.

Journal Article Teach Learn Med · 2020 Phenomenon: Virtual standardized patients (vSPs) are becoming increasingly common in medical education, though one limitation of vSPs is the artificiality of computer-based simulators. Past research on the use of vSPs has not clearly established whether le ... Full text Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants


2/4 Adapting Treatments for Suicidal College Students: A Multisite Trial

ResearchIndependent Evaluator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2025

Treatment in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

ResearchResearch Assistant · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1997 - 2009

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of North Carolina, Greensboro · 2014 Ph.D.