Michael Resnick, Ph.D.

Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
Director, Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center
717 Delaware Street SE, Suite 370
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
Ofc: (612) 624-9111
Fax: (612) 626-2134
resni001@umn.edu

Michael D. Resnick, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, and Director of Research in the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine. He holds degrees in sociology, social work and health services research and has been a member of the University of Minnesota faculty since 1981. Resnick has been principal or co-investigator on numerous federal and foundation research projects focusing on health and risk behaviors, resiliency and protective factors in the lives of youth people, with a particular emphasis on issues related to adolescent sexual behaviors and violence. Resnick is currently Director of the Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center, funded by the CDC, conducting research and evaluation studies on best practices in pregnancy prevention and promotion of healthy youth development, as well as providing leadership training to postgraduate health professionals specializing in community-based prevention research. Before that, he directed the National Adolescent Health Resource Center, a Maternal and Child Health Bureau project that collaborated with state Maternal and Child Health directors and adolescent health coordinators in conducting state-wide assessments of adolescent health and service needs.

Resnick has served as a consultant and reviewer for the World Health Organization, the National Science Foundation, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Institutes of Health, and for numerous professional journals. His teaching is directed at the development of leadership competencies among graduate and postgraduate interdisciplinary health care providers. His courses and seminars include U.S. health care policy and organization, critical appraisal of empirical research, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and healthy youth development. Resnick has received four awards for outstanding teaching and research to interdisciplinary audiences. He is particularly interested in the translation of research into programs, policies, and practices through active collaboration with community-based health and social service providers, educators, legislators, the media, and others working with and on behalf of young people.

Students interested in full-time Ph.D. study and the application of interdisciplinary study to problems in education may be interested in the Minnesota Interdisciplinary Training in Education Research (MITER) program. Check out their web site to get a description and overview of the MITER program, course lists; and curriculum requirements, as well as sample program coursework selections for hypothetical students from different disciplines; a page describing the background and rationale for developing the MITER program; and a page listing faculty and their research interests/area(s) of specialization with links to each faculty member's bio page.

Recent Publications:

Bearinger LH, Resnick MD. (2003) Dual method use in adolescents: A review and framework for research on use of STD and pregnancy protection. J Adol Health, 32:340-349.

Powers K, Potthoff SJ, Bearinger LH, Resnick MD. (2003) Does cultural programming improve educational outcomes in American Indian youth? J Amer Indian Education 42(2):17-49.

Beasley-Coyne T, Ford CA, Walker M, Adimore AA, Resnick MD. (2003) Sexually active students' willingness to use school-based health centers for reproductive health care services in North Carolina. Ambulatory Pediatrics 3(4):196-202.

Sieving R, Resnick M, Fee R, Oliphant J, Pettingell S, Russ P, Skay C (2003) Prime Time: A youth developing approach to preventing negative sexual health outcomes. J Adol Hlth, 32(2):154.

Resnick MD. (2003). Comparative insights and shared directions for adolescent health: A commentary on three international papers J Adol Health, Oct 33(4):211-214.

Rock EM, Ireland M, Resnick MD. (2003). To know that we know what we know: perceived knowledge and adolescent sexual risk behavior. J Pediatr and Adol Gynecol, 16(6):369-376.

Loewenson, P, Ireland M, Resnick MD. (2004) Primary and secondary abstinence in high school students. J Adol Health, 34(3):209-215.

Eisenberg M, Bearinger LH, Sieving RE, Swain C, Resnick MD. (2004) Parents' beliefs about condoms and oral contraceptives: Are they medically accurate? Persps Sex Repro Hlth, 36(2):50-57.

Resnick MD, Ireland M, Borowsky I. (2004) Youth violence perpetration: What protects? What predicts? Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. J Adol Health 35:424.e1-424e10.

Eisenberg ME, Swain C, Bearinger LH, Sieving RE, Resnick MD. (2005) Parental notification laws for minors' access to contraception: What do parents say? Arch Peds & Adol Med, 159:120-125.

Bearinger L, Pettingell S, Resnick MD, Skay C, Potthoff S, Eichhorn J. (2005) Violence perpetration among urban American Indian youth: Can protection offset risk? Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 159:270-277.

Resnick MD. (2005). "In this issue," Guest Editor of theme issue of Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health: Findings from Add Health, 36(6):223-224.

Rock EM, Ireland M, Resnick MD, McNeely CA. (2005). A rose by any other name: Objective knowledge, perceived knowledge, and adolescent male condom use. Pediatrics 115:667-672.

Ford C, Pence BW, Miller WC, Resnick MD, Bearinger LH, Pettingell S, Cohen M. (2005). Predicting adolescents' longitudinal risk for sexually transmitted infection: Results from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Med, 159:657-664.

Duke N, Resnick MD, Borowsky IW. (2005). Adolescent firearm violence. Position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. Journal of Adolescent Health, 37(2):171-174.

Resnick M. (2005). Healthy youth development: Getting our priorities right. Med J Austr 183(8):398-400.

Saewyc EM, Skay CL, Pettingell SL, Reis E, Bearinger L, Resnick MD. (2006) Murphy, A. Hazards of stigma: The sexual and physical abuse of gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents in the U.S. and Canada. Child Welfare 85(2): 195-213.

Sieving R, Hellerstedt W, McNeely C, Fee R, Snyder J, Resnick M. (2006) Reliability of self-reported contraceptive use and sexual behaviors among adolescent girls. J Sex Research.42(2):159-167.

Eisenberg ME, Resnick MD. (2006) Suicidality among gay, lesbian and bisexual youth: The role of protective factors. J Adol Health 39:662-668.

Eisenberg ME, Sieving RE, Bearinger LH, Swain C, Resnick MD. (2006) Parents' communication with adolescents about sexual behavior: A missed opportunity for prevention? J Youth and Adolescence, July 35(6)893-902.

Bernat, Deborah and Resnick MD. (2006) Healthy youth development: Science and practice, J Public Health Management and Practice Supplement (November): s10-16.

Resnick MD and Bowes, Glenn. (2007). Us and them: Worldwide health issues for adolescents. Lancet 369(9567): 1058-1060.

Resnick MD. (2007). Challenges and prospects for community-partnered research. J Adol Hlth 40:487-488.

Eisenberg ME, Ackard DM, Resnick MD. (2007). Protective factors and suicide risk among adolescents with a history of sexual abuse. J of Pediatrics 151:482-487.

Resnick MD. (2008). FaRes Ipsa Loquitur: "The thing speaks for itself." So why isn't evidence enough for enactment? Family and Community Health Supplement 1 to Vol 31(18):S5-S14.

Pettingell SL, Bearinger LH, Skay C, Resnick MD, Potthoff SJ, Eichhorn J. (2008). Protecting urban American Indian young people from suicide. American J of Health Behavior. 32(5):465-476.

Allen M, Svetaz MV, Hardeman R, Resnick MD. What research tells us about Latino parenting practices and their relationship to youth sexual behavior. Washington DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, February 2008. Accessible via www.teenpregnancy.org.

Saewyc EM, Sky CL, Hynds P, Pettingell S, Bearinger LH, Resnick MD, Reis E. Suicidal ideation and attempts among adolescent sin North American school-based surveys: Are bisexual youth at increasing risk? J of LGBT Health Research (forthcoming).

Eisenberg ME, Bernat D, Bearinger LH, Resnick MD. Condom provision and education in public schools: what do the parents say? J of Adol Hlth (forthcoming.)

Eisenberg ME, Bernat D, Bearinger LH, Resnick MD. Support for comprehensive sexuality education: Perspectives from parents of school-age youth. J of Adol Hlth (forthcoming).