Patrick H. Casey, Food Insecurity

Patrick Casey, MD, is the Harvey and Bernice Jones Professor of Developmental Pediatrics, director for the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation, and chief of the Division of Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. He is an active clinician and directs the Growth and Development Program, a multidisciplinary referral clinic for children with failure-to-thrive and developmental problems. He is the medical director of the KIDS FIRST program, a statewide system of center-based, early intervention programs for medically vulnerable children. His research interests include normal growth and development of infants; failure to thrive and malnutrition in infancy; the effect of infants' home environment on long-term growth, development, and behavior; and effects of various clinical and nutritional interventions on growth and development. He is the principal investigator for one site of the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative, a project on the health and nutritional status of residents of the delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Dr. Casey is also an investigator in the U.S. Department of Agriculture-supported study of the psychological and psychophysiological consequences of failure to thrive and early malnutrition.