

John E. Vance, MD
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
(4.8 out of 5)
VTC Faculty
Carilion Clinic
"My focus is to promote the application of resiliency-building, and evidence-based therapies to intervene with youths with mental illness, delinquency, and trauma, using a family and relationship-based approach. "
Locations
Background
Medical School
- University of Virginia
Fellowships
- Dartmouth Medical School
Specialties or Medical Focus
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
NPI
- 1033284427
Residencies
- Dartmouth Medical School
Services
Conditions Treated
- ADHD and learning disorders
- Adolescent substance abuse disorders
- Autism
- Childhood mood and anxiety disorders
- Childhood neuropsychiatric/developmental disorders
- Oppositional and conduct disorder
- Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Treatments Offered
- Comprehensive adolescent psychiatric evaluation
- Comprehensive child psychiatric evaluation
- Juvenile justice psychiatric consultation
- Medication management
- Psychiatric pharmacotherapy
- Psychotherapy supervision and consultation
- Resiliency assessment
Biography
Dr. Eric Vance is currently an Associate Professor in Child Psychiatry, at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. In this capacity, he provides outpatient psychiatric care to children and youths at the Carilion Clinic and several other community-based mental health agencies. He is also the director of the medical school's clinical clerkship in psychiatry.
His career started with seven years of treatment and research in the North Carolina Willie M Program for aggressive, mentally ill youths. After the Willie M Program ended, he moved to New Hampshire for 13 years, to work at the Seacoast Mental Health Center, and eventually became part of the Dartmouth Trauma Intervention Research Center, treating and researching traumatized, high-risk youths in the New Hampshire juvenile justice system.
He has done dozens of talks, trainings, and consultations for mental health systems, schools, and inter-agency groups in several states. His focus has been to promote the application of resiliency-building, and evidence-based therapies to intervene with high-risk youths. His research has been related to measuring and promoting protective factors and resiliency in youths with mental illness, delinquency, and traumatized populations of youths. He has published several research articles and book chapters on resiliency.
His career started with seven years of treatment and research in the North Carolina Willie M Program for aggressive, mentally ill youths. After the Willie M Program ended, he moved to New Hampshire for 13 years, to work at the Seacoast Mental Health Center, and eventually became part of the Dartmouth Trauma Intervention Research Center, treating and researching traumatized, high-risk youths in the New Hampshire juvenile justice system.
He has done dozens of talks, trainings, and consultations for mental health systems, schools, and inter-agency groups in several states. His focus has been to promote the application of resiliency-building, and evidence-based therapies to intervene with high-risk youths. His research has been related to measuring and promoting protective factors and resiliency in youths with mental illness, delinquency, and traumatized populations of youths. He has published several research articles and book chapters on resiliency.
Specialties
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