Alexander Moxam
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Attending , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical Director , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia First Episode Psychosis Program
Department: Psychiatry
Contact information
3440 Market Street
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Education:
BA (Art, Biology, Chemistry)
Eckerd College, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University , 2016.
BA (Art, Biology, Chemistry)
Eckerd College, 2010.
MD (Medicine)
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University , 2016.
Post-Graduate Training
Psychiatry Intern, University of Southern California , 2016-2017.
Psychiatry Resident , University of Pennsylvania , 2017-2019.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2019-2021.
Outpatient Chief Fellow , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , 2020-2021.
Permanent linkPsychiatry Intern, University of Southern California , 2016-2017.
Psychiatry Resident , University of Pennsylvania , 2017-2019.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2019-2021.
Outpatient Chief Fellow , Children's Hospital of Philadelphia , 2020-2021.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Psychotic DisordersEarly Psychosis
First Episode Psychosis
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Selected Publications
Phalen, P., Jones, N., Davis, B., Sarpal, D., Dickerson, F., Vatza, C., Jumper, M., Kuczynski, A., Thompson, E., Jay, S., Buchanan, R., Chengappa, K.N.R., Goldberg, R., Kreyenbuhl, J., Margolis, R., Dong, F., Riggs, J., Moxam, A., Burris, E., Campbell, P., Cooke, A., Ered, A., Fauble, M., Howell, C., Kelly, C., Namowicz, D., Rouse, K., Smith, W., Wolcott, M., Boumaiz, Y., Harvin, A., Scheinberg, R., Saravana, A., Nayar, S., Kohler, C., Calkins, M.E., Bennett, M.: Suicidality among clients in a network of coordinated specialty care (CSC) programs for first-episode psychosis: Rates, changes in rates, and their predictors. Schizophrenia Research 274: 150-157, Dec 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.07.054. Epub 2024 Sep 19.Hoffmann JA, Parikh T, Lorenz D, Goldman MP, Powers E, Patel SJ, Lavina I, Heyming T, England JT, Saidinejad M, Claudius I, Ghosh P, Shapiro D, Swan T, Bouvay K, Murtagh-Kurowski E, Smith N, Davis J, Moxam A, Muhrer E, Shenoi R, Portillo E, Kaplan R, Uspal N, Lapus R, Vo A, Fenster D, Barrocas D, Liu D, Chaudhari P, Cafferty R, Freedman S, Rose J, Evers M, Metcalf A, Saleh F, Dunnick J, Pitetti R, Nathani Y, Waseem M, Florin TA.: Clinically Significant Neuroimaging Findings among Youth Presenting to the Emergency Department with Psychosis: A Multicenter Study. Oral Presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Toronto, Canada May 2024.
Bennett ME, Medoff D, Cowan T, Fang L, Kacmarek C, Oikonomou MT, Calkins ME, Baker KK, Bencivengo D, Boumaiz Y, Buchanan RW, Campbell P, Chengappa KNR, Conroy CG, Cooke A, Dong F, Fauble M, Goldberg RW, Harvin A, Jumper MBE, Kauffman B, Kelly C, Kohler, CG, Kreyenbuhl J, Li L, Lucksted A, Margolis RL, Marsteller JA, Moxam A, Namowicz D, Oko J, Riggs J, Saravana A, Sarpal DK, Scheinberg R, Smith WR, States R, Taylor J, Vatza C, Wolcott M, Dickerson F.: Tobacco Smoking and Nicotine Vaping in Persons with First Episode Psychosis. Schizophrenia Research 267: 141-149, May 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2024.03.020. Epub 2024 Mar 27.
Moxam, A.: Navigating Adolescent Psychosis. Psychology Today January 2023.
Muhrer E, Moxam A, Dunn M, Rosen A, Taylor JH, Camacho P, Bowden C, Worsley D, Doupnik SK. : Acute medical workup for new-onset psychosis in children and adolescents: A retrospective cohort. Journal of Hospital Medicine 17(11): 907-911, November 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/jhm.12905. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Moxam, A.B., McCellan, E., Huque, Z.M. White, L., Calkins, M.E., Kohler, C., Wolf, D.H., Benton, T., Gur, R.E., Taylor, J.H. : Evaluating a Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Department’s Comfort, Knowledge, and Practice Habits Related to Care of Patients with Psychosis Symptoms. Schizophrenia International Research Society Annual Conference, Florence, Italy (hybrid) April 2022.
Moxam, A.B., McClellan, E.J., Cagande, C., Calkins, M.E., Wolf, D.H., Kohler, C.G., Benton, T.D., Gur, R.E., Taylor, J.H.: Few primary care pediatricians screen for psychosis but many are willing. Schizophrenia Research 232: 65-67, June 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.05.012. Epub 2021 May 19.
Moshiri AS, Moxam A.: Syphilitic Alopecia. New England Journal of Medicine 379(17): 1657, October 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1056/NEJMicm1804118.