Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics
717 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414-2959
Ofc: (612) 626-2398
Fax: (612) 626-2134
borow004@umn.edu

Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She received her undergraduate degree at Duke University, and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine. Her pediatric internship and residency were at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she also completed a fellowship in General Academic Pediatrics, with an emphasis on children and adolescents living in high-risk environments.

Much of Borowsky's clinical and teaching activities are at the Community University Health Care Center, a neighborhood-based outreach clinic of the University of Minnesota which provides care to an ethnically-diverse, low income urban population. Her research has focused on risk and protective factors for involvement in self-directed and interpersonal violence among youth, as well as the development of effective violence prevention strategies, particularly interventions that can be used by health care providers in clinical encounters. She completed the Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Currently, she is working with a national network of pediatric practices involved in research, the American Academy of Pediatricsø PROS (Pediatric Research in Office Settings) to implement and evaluate a primary care-based intervention to identify, prevent and treat psychosocial problems among youth. Dr. Borowsky has mentored several graduate and undergraduate students in research and writing projects, and serves as faculty mentor and advisor to medical students, pediatric residents, and fellows in General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health. She directs the Primary Care Fellowship in General Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.

Recent Publications:

Borowsky IW. Youth violence intervention: A parent-physician partnership strategy. Minnesota Health Care News 3(4):16-17, 2005. Reprinted in Pediatrics for Parents 22(4):10-11, 2006.

Borowsky IW, Resnick MD, Ireland M, Blum RW. Suicide attempts among American Indian and Alaska Native youth: Risk and protective factors. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:573-580.

Borowsky IW, Ireland M. National survey of pediatricians' violence prevention counseling. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:1170-1176.

Borowsky IW, Ireland M, Resnick MD. Adolescent suicide attempts: Risks and protectors. Pediatrics. 2001;107:485-493.
Borowsky, IW, Ireland M. Parental screening for intimate partner violence by pediatricians and family physicians. Pediatrics.
2002;110:509-516.

Borowsky IW, Ireland M, Resnick MD. Violence risk and protective factors for youth held back in school. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 2002;2:475-484.

Borowsky IW, Mozayeny S, Ireland M. Brief psychosocial screening at health supervision and acute care visits. Pediatrics. 2003;112:129-133.

Borowsky IW, Ireland M. Predictors of future fight-related injury among adolescents. Pediatrics. 2004;113:530-536.

Borowsky IW, Mozayeny SM, Stuenkel KN, Ireland M. Effects of a primary care-based intervention on violent behavior and injury in children. Pediatrics. 2004;114:e392-e399.

Borowsky IW. The role of the pediatrician in preventing suicidal behavior. Minerva Pediatrica. 2002;54:41-52.

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

Scal P, Hennrikus D, Ehrlich L, Ireland M, Borowsky I. Preparing residents to counsel about smoking. Clinical Pediatrics. 2004;43:703-708.

Duke N, Resnick MD, Borowsky IW. Adolescent firearm violence: Position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. J Adolesc Health. 2005;37:171-174.

Duke N, Ireland M, Borowsky IW. Identifying psychosocial problems among youth: Factors associated with youth agreement on a positive parent-completed PSC-17. Child: Care, Health & Development. 2005;31:563-573.

Ohene SA, Ireland M, McNeely C, Borowsky IW. Parental expectations, physical punishment and violence among adolescents scoring positive on a psychosocial screening test in primary care. Pediatrics. 2006;117:441-447.

Borowsky IW, Hogan M, Ireland M. Adolescent sexual aggression: Risk and protective factors. Pediatrics. 1997;100(6). URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/100/6/e7.

Borowsky IW, Resnick MD. Environmental stressors and emotional status of adolescents who have been in special education classes. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:377-382.

Yexley M, Borowsky I, Ireland M. Correlation between different experiences of intrafamilial physical violence and violent adolescent behavior. J Interpersonal Violence. 2002;17:707-720..

Scal P, Ireland M, Borowsky IW. Smoking initiation among American adolescents: A risk and protective factor analysis. J Community Health. 2003;28:79-97.