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  Dilip V. Jeste, M.D.

Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and VA San Diego Healthcare System. He is also the Director of the Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research at UCSD focusing on psychosis in late-life, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Dr. Jeste obtained his medical education in Poona, and psychiatry training in Bombay, India. In the USA, he completed his psychiatry residency at Cornell University, and Neurology residency at George Washington University. He was a research fellow, and later, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at the NIMH before moving to San Diego.
 

Dr. Jeste is the Principal Investigator on several research and training grants. He has published eight books, and over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is the past President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry, and the Founding President of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology.

Dr. Jeste is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the NIH Council of Councils. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America” and has received several awards including the A.E. Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry; MERIT Award from the NIMH; Commendation for Dedicated Service from the American Legion, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission; Senior Investigator Award from the AAGP; C. Charles Burlingame Award from the Institute of Living, Hartford; the Award for Research in Psychiatry as well as the Jack Weinberg Memorial Award in Geriatric Psychiatry and the George Tarjan Award from the American Psychiatric Association; Life-Time Service Award from the American College of International Physicians; Most Distinguished Physician Teacher/Researcher Award from the American Association of Physicians of Indian origin; Asian Heritage Award for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Research; and Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders.

He is in the Institute of Scientific Information list of the “world's most cited authors”--comprising less than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of the last two decades.

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  E. Clark Allen, M.D.
Dr. Allen is an Associate Physician in the University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry and the Co-Director of the UCSD Senior Behavioral Health Unit. Dr. Allen has served as the PI of an industry-sponsored multicenter study in older patients requiring treatment with psychotic medications.

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  Gregory A. Aarons, Ph.D.
Dr. Aarons is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with minors in Organizational Psychology and Research Methods from the University of South Florida. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a postdoctoral fellowship in substance abuse and health services research at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Aarons completed an NIMH Mentored Career Development grant focusing on organizational factors and evidence-based practice in mental health service settings. He has a leadership role in the UCSD Geropsychiatry Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research.

Dr. Aarons' current research focuses on translational science and identifying and improving organizational factors that impact quality of mental health services and implementation of evidence-based practice in real-world practice settings. Dr. Aarons is principal investigator on an NIMH funded grant that examines factors affecting statewide evidence-based practice implementation and organizational readiness to implement evidence-based practices. Dr. Aarons is a collaborative investigator on a study of implementation of clinical reminders to improve HIV screening and treatment for at-risk patients in primary care. Dr. Aarons’ most recent work focuses on the role of leadership in evidence-based practice implementation.
 

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  Concepcion Barrio, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
CONCEPCION BARRIO is associate professor at the University of Southern California School of Social Work and co-investigator at two research centers funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in San Diego, the Child and Adolescent Services Center and the Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research (ACISR) at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Barrio currently serves as principal investigator of the Latino Studies Unit at the ACISR.
Dr. Barrio has a national reputation in mental health services research, particularly in the interaction of ethnicity and effective clinical practice. Since 1997, she has been the principal investigator on three NIMH grants. Currently, her NIMH research study in on the development of a culturally-based family intervention for Mexican-Americans dealing with schizophrenia. She is also a co-investigator on several other National Institute of Health grants in Los Angeles and San Diego that focus on the cultural relevance of mental health services and on the development and cultural adaptation of interventions for Latino and other underserved and underesearched multicultural populations dealing with severe and persistent mental illness and co-morbid conditions.

Dr. Barrio comes with twenty years of social work practice experience in community and private mental health settings with multicultural populations. Her teaching expertise is in the area of advanced direct practice in mental health settings and psychopathology and the diagnosis of mental disorders.

Dr. Barrio has served on the Services Research Scientific Merit Review Committee at the National Institute of Mental Health, and she is currently a standing member of this Review Committee.

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  Steve Bartels, Ph.D.
Dr. Bartels is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the New Hampshire-Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center where he is Director of Aging Services Research. He is also the President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. He was the recipient of a K award focusing on outcomes and services for older adults with severe mental illness and is a PI in a study integrating mental health services in primary care. Dr. Bartels has a long-standing relationship with the UCSD research center and will help with the development of the intervention model, focusing specifically on health care models, skills training, services, and outcomes for older persons with severe mental illness.

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  Jesus Bucardo, M.D.
Dr. Bucardo is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. Bucardo completed his medical school training in Mexico and a psychiatry residency at the UCSD. He also holds a Master’s degree in public health and received postdoctoral research training at UC San Francisco. Dr. Bucardo has been involved in a number of research studies and currently is funded through an NIMH Minority Supplement to conduct Functional and Adaptive Skills Training in Latinos. Dr. Bucardo also maintains a clinical practice with predominantly patients of Mexican-American origin. He is bilingual and bicultural.

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  Karen J. Calfas, Ph.D.

Dr. Calfas is a health psychologist at San Diego State University (SDSU) and Assistant Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She received her doctorate in clinical psychology with an emphasis in behavioral medicine in 1990 from the joint doctoral program at UCSD and SDSU. Her pre-doctoral internship in behavioral medicine was completed at Brown University School of Medicine. She is a licensed psychologist and has a small clinical practice in addition to research and teaching at the University. Dr. Calfas has been co-principal investigator on several federal or state funded research projects on physical activity, nutrition, smoking or sexual health behaviors. She has authored over 100 scientific articles, book chapters and abstracts. Dr. Calfas has lectured nationally and internationally on exercise adherence and related topics. In 1997, she co-founded the San Diego Center for Health Interventions.

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  Michael P. Caligiuri, Ph.D.
Dr. Caligiuri is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California in San Diego where he has held an academic appointment since 1987. He is the Director of the Movement Disorders Laboratory and the UCSD Human Research Protections Program. He received an MS Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle in acoustics, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in the neurosciences.  His primary research interest is in the study of psychophysiology and movement disorders. 
His research is funded by grants from the National Institute of Aging and the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Department of Veteran Affairs. Over the past nine years his research focus has evolved from the development and validation of new technology for quantifying movement disorders, to the study of physiologic mechanisms underlying movement disorders and the interactions between abnormal movement and psychopathology. He is currently directing several NIMH-funded studies involving functional MRI with particular focus on understanding the neural circuits involved in normal and abnormal motor function.

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  Lisa Eyler, Ph.D.
Dr. Lisa Eyler is an Assistant Professor in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry and a member of the Neuroimaging Core of the San Diego VA Mental Illness, Research and Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC). Her research focuses on the biological basis of neurocognitive functioning in aging, development, and mental illness. Previous studies have used functional imaging to explore the nature of cognitive deficits among older individuals with schizophrenia. Her current projects include examining the brain response correlates of exceptional aging and a study of brain functioning among older persons with bipolar disorder. In addition, she is a co-investigator on a twin MRI study of aging, a project to examine imaging correlates of risk for Alzheimer's disease, a study of enhancing the informed consent process among patients with schizophrenia, and a functional imaging project aimed at discovering risk factors for autism among very young children.

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  David Folsom, M.D. 
Dr. Folsom is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego and a research fellow in the VA-funded Desert Pacific Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center based at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Folsom recently completed a combined Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Folsom is particularly interested in research involving chronically psychotic homeless adults. Dr. Folsom works in the free medical clinic at the St. Vincent de Paul Village in downtown San Diego which provides comprehensive physical and mental healthcare to homeless individuals.

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  Piedad Garcia, Ed.D. 
Dr. Garcia is the Director for Systems of Care for the County of San Diego, Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services (AOAMHS). Prior to assuming this position Dr. Garcia held the position of Clinical Director for three years for AOAMHS. In her current capacity Dr. Garcia oversees the implementation of the Redesign of the System of Care for AOAMHS and the development and implementation of System of Care initiatives to include: the integration of psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery practices in the mental health system, youth transitioning into the adult system, integration of dual diagnosis practices, older adult mental health services, housing and employment for people with psychiatric disabilities and integration of cultural competencies in the mental health system. In addition, Dr. Garcia oversees and monitors an array of outpatient, inpatient and rehabilitation and recovery contract programs.

Dr. Garcia has been involved with community mental health for over 20 years and in various capacities has been involved with serious mentally ill individuals. Dr. Garcia is a current Board of Directors member of USPRA and a board member of the San Diego Task Force on the Homeless. Under her leadership AOAMHS was awarded over $10 million dollars in 2001 from the California State Department of Mental Health to provide an integrated services programs for mentally ill homeless.

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  Todd Gilmer, Ph.D.
Dr. Gilmer is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Gilmer received his Ph.D. in economics in 1997 from the University of Washington and subsequently came to the UCSD School of Medicine. 

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  Shahrokh Golshan, Ph.D.
Dr. Golshan is a Project Scientist in the University of California, San Diego Department of Psychiatry. He is the Director of the Methodology, Biostatistics and Data Management core (MBDM) of the IRC. Dr. Golshan has been involved with the MBDM Core since its inception and has been a long-time consultant to this center. Dr. Golshan has been PI and the director of the Biostatistical Core in the UCSD Mood Disorder Clinical Research Center (MHCRC) since 1987. Dr. Golshan as experience as a biostatistical consultant, and is an expert in study design and methodology. Dr. Golshan has extensive experience in complex statistical modeling and analysis. He has been involved in teaching principles of study design and statistical concepts and procedures. 

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  Eric Granholm, Ph.D.
Eric L. Granholm, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD, and Director of the Schizophrenia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1991 at UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, where he conducted research on neuropsychology, social skills training and family therapy for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

Dr. Granholm is an active basic and clinical researcher in the areas of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for psychosis, cognitive neuropsychology, and psychophysiology (pupillography) in people with schizophrenia. He has over 80 publications and has been an investigator on 15 grants to study CBT for psychosis and neurocognition in schizophrenia.

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  Maureen Halpain, M.S.
Ms. Halpain has both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Gerontology from the University of Southern California with a specialization in Health Administration and Policy. She has served as the Center Manager since the establishment of the CRC. Ms. Halpain first came to UCSD in 1986 where she worked directly for the Dean and Associate Dean of the School of Medicine performing analytical studies, tracking health policy and legislative activities, and preparing position papers, speeches and grant applications. She later took responsibility for the management of UCSD's Academic Geriatric Resource Center which oversees educational programs in geriatrics at the University.  
Ms. Halpain joined UCSD's Geriatric Psychiatry Program in 1991. She is responsible for the administrative functions of the Geriatric Psychiatry program, as well as the education and training program. Ms. Halpain holds a faculty appointment as a Clinical Instructor in the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Division of Health Care Sciences. She was appointed to co-chair the Biostatistics/Data Management (BDM) Committee for all NIMH-funded CRCs. Ms. Halpain has also been appointed as Manager of the recently funded (1995-2000) Summer Research Institute (SRI) in Geriatric Psychiatry. She has more than 10 publications related to the work of the CRC and has made several presentations at meetings on Center-related data.

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  Ansar Haroun, M.D. 
Dr. Haroun Chief of Forensic Psychiatry for the AMHS and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at UCSD. Dr. Haroun is a highly regarded forensic psychiatrist who is an excellent teacher and clinician. He has consulted with the Center for a number of years on the legal issues related to informed consent and decision-making capacity.

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  William Hawthorne, Ph.D.
Dr. Hawthorne is Founder and Executive Director of Community Research Foundation (CRF), a not-for-profit provider and research organization providing 30 community-based programs for the public mental health system in San Diego County. He is also Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD, and Adjunct Associate Research Professor at the School of Social Work at San Diego State University. He has worked as a provider and researcher in the public mental health system in San Diego County for over 30 years. Dr. Hawthorne has developed numerous clinical programs in San Diego County, including many of the programs operated by CRF.
He has also conducted numerous outcome and client satisfaction studies within the public mental health system in San Diego County. He has collaborated with Richard Hough, PhD at the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center on a number of studies and is currently a co-investigator at the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Advanced Center for Innovative Services and Intervention Research. His current research interests focus on factors associated with variation in utilization and cost of public mental health services and the translation of research into practice and policy.

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  Robert K. Heaton, Ph.D.
Dr. Heaton is a Professor of Psychiatry in the University of California, San Diego Department of Psychiatry, and is the Principal Investigator of the Assessment Core of the IRC. He an internationally known for his research on the neuropsychological (NP) effects of schizophrenia, as well as his work in several other areas including the neurobehavioral aspects of HIV-infection, and in the development of comprehensive demographically corrected norms for NP tests. He serves as the Associate Editor for the journal Assessment. He is co-editor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and serves on the editorial board of several other journals. Dr. Heaton has been responsible for the development of comprehensive norms for the Expanded Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery. Dr. Heaton's expertise in measurement of cognitive deficits in schizophrenia, and his support as PI of the IRC Assessment core will be invaluable to the success of this project. 

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  Richard Hough, Ph.D.
Dr. Hough is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, a Research Professor of Psychiatry and Family & Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico and an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. He is the PI of the Community Network Core. Dr. Hough is also the Co-Director of the NIMH-funded Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at the Children’s Hospital of San Diego. Dr. Hough has conducted mental health epidemiologic, services and intervention research for more than thirty years. Much of his research has focused on Latino and other minority populations. Among his major research achievements are serving as the PI for the Los Angeles site of the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Research Program; as PI on several NIMH funded studies of demonstration research programs designed to serve seriously mentally ill, homeless and substance abusing populations in the San Diego area; as an investigator on the VA funded National Vietnam Veteran Readjustment Study; and the PI on a large, NIMH funded study of high-risk children and adolescents being served in various public sectors of care.
 

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  Hua Jin, M.D.
Dr. Jin is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and medical director of MCCE program in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Jin received his medical degree from Shanghai Medical University and completed his psychiatry residency at Shanghai Mental Health Center. After immigrating to the US, he had his psychiatry residency training again in the department of psychiatry at UCSD and has been on the faculty of the UCSD Department of Psychiatry since graduated from his residency training in 2001.

Dr. Jin is actively involved in research and his current research focuses on weight gain, diabetes and hyperlipidemia associated with different atypical antipsychotics as well as the underlining mechanisms related to these metabolic changes in patients with schizophrenia.
 He is the Co-PI of a large ongoing NIH funded study examining long-term metabolic effects of antipsychotics with Dr. Dilip Jeste (PI) in the UCSD Division of Geriatric Psychiatry. He has been collaborating with the China CDC and Mental Health Center at Peking University and conducting a NIH funded large scale HIV/AIDS neurocognitive and neuropsychiatry research in China.

Dr. Jin’s clinical work is focused on psychosis, schizophrenia and medication management. He has been the PI for several clinical trials on antipsychotics in the US and China. He is a staff psychiatrist at VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Jin also teaches and supervises psychiatry residents and geropsychiatric fellows rotating through the geropsychiatry.

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  Michael Kalichman, Ph.D. 
Dr. Kalichman is an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Kalichman is also the Director of the UCSD Reearch Ethics Program. He is responsible for the development and implementation of research ethics training for the UCSD and runs several courses and colloquia each year to assure that all investigators receive adequate training in important issues related to research ethics. Dr. Kalichman is also involved at the national level in these types of activities for example he authored “Responsible conduct of research: an introductory guide: for the Office of Research Integrity (2001). He is the recipient of grants on developing training in ethics including developing training using the internet. 

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  Jonathan Lacro, Pharm.D.
Dr. Lacro is an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Diego Department of Psychiatry and a Clinical Pharmacist Specialist at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Lacro has been conducting psychopharmacologic research on patients with psychotic disorders since 1991. His expertise as a pharmacotherapist is exemplified by his passing a certification exam in 1994 to become a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and in 1997 as a board certified psychiatric pharmacist. It has been estimated that board certified pharmacotherapy specialists represent only 1% of the pharmacists in the United States.
He has an active NIMH-supported grant on Antipsychotic Treatment in Late-Life Schizophrenia as well as a Veterans Affairs Desert Pacific MIRECC-funded pilot project titled Exploring the Rationality of Co-Medication in Antipsychotic Treatment.

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