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Barry D.
Lebowitz, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Lebowitz is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He
moved to UCSD in 2005 after a nearly 30-year career at
the National Institute of Mental Health where he served
as Chief of the Geriatrics Research Branch. A native of
Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Lebowitz is a graduate of
McGill University and Cornell University. He was elected
a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and an
Honorary Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association
and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
The recipient of a number of awards, Dr. Lebowitz was
most recently honored with the M. Powell Lawton Award of
the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Lebowitz’s
career-long commitment to mentorship and career
development have been recognized the Distinguished
Service Award from the International Psychogeriatric
Association for being the “mentor of mentors”. In 2005
the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
renamed its early career investigator award the “Barry
Lebowitz Junior Investigator Award” and lecture, to be
awarded annually. Dr. Lebowitz’s research interests
include: depression in late life, medical/psychiatric
comorbidity, clinical trials, research design and
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Laurie
Lindamer, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Lindamer is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego. She is also the Clinical Director for the UCSD Geriatric Psychiatry Advanced Center for Innovative Services and Interventions Research and Director of the Education and Dissemination Unit of the San Diego VA Healthcare System’s Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Disorders.
Dr. Lindamer’s research interests include health issues in older adults with psychosis and the development of public-academic partnerships to promote the implementation of evidenced-based practices in older adults with psychosis. She was a recipient of an NIMH career development award and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award for her research in the role of estrogen in late-life psychosis. Her current research projects include the development of a residential-based health promotion program for older adults with psychosis for which she has received an R34.
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James
Lohr, M.D. |
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Dr.
Lohr is a Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences in
Residence at the University of California, San Diego. He
was recently the Chief of Psychiatry Service at the
VASDHS and is now the Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for
the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Additionally, he is
the Associate Director of the VA-funded Desert Pacific
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC)
which focuses on improving functional outcome in chronic
psychoses. He is also the Medical Director of Community
Research Foundation which is a large non-profit
corporation that is responsible for approximately 40% of
the mentally ill population in San Diego County. |
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has been actively involved in psychopharmacology studies
of schizophrenia for over 15 years and offers his
expertise to the project. Dr. Lohr will provide his
valuable expertise in terms of consultation on new and
ongoing trials in the Center. |
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Margaret
McCahill, M.D. |
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Dr. McCahill
is a Professor in the Departments of Family and
Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. McCahill
is also the Clinical Director of the St. Vincent de Paul
Village, a large clinic providing medical and mental
health care to homeless and indigent residents of San
Diego County and the Director of the UCSD Combined
Family Medicine/Psychiatry Residency Program. Dr.
McCahill has been recognized for her accomplishments and
is the recipient of several awards including Family
Medicine Teacher of the Year, the San Diego Psychiatric
Society President’s Award, and the San Diego County
Mental Health Person of the Year Award. |
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Brent Mausbach Ph.D. |
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Dr Mausbach obtained his bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the VA Black Hills Healthcare System, after which he received post-doctoral training at both Stanford University and UCSD with a specialization in Geropsychiatry. Dr Mausbach has been a faculty member at UCSD since July, 2007.
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Christine
L., McKibbin Ph.D. |
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Dr. McKibbin
is an Assistant Project Scientist at the University of
California, San Diego. Dr. McKibbin completed her
doctoral training at the University of North Texas. As
part of her graduate studies, Dr. McKibbin was accepted
as an intern at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health
Care System. There she received extensive training in
gerontology and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).
Following the completion of her graduate studies, Dr.
McKibbin was accepted as a post doctoral fellow at
Stanford University in the School of Medicine. There,
she conducted research examining the efficacy of CBT to
reduce distress among family caregivers. Specifically,
she worked with Dr. Dolores Gallagher-Thompson and
colleagues to develop and test a measure of caregiving
self-efficacy. She joined the Geriatric Psychiatry
Intervention Research Center in 1999 as a postdoctoral
fellow to receive additional training in geriatric
psychiatry and rehabilitation. In this role, Dr.
McKibbin has been instrumental in the submission of an
R01 to study the efficacy of a rehabilitation program to
enhance functioning among older patients with
schizophrenia. She has also developed a treatment manual
to accompany this proposal and has participated in scale
development efforts to develop performance-based
measures of functioning for older schizophrenia
patients. |
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Trey Meeks, M.D. |
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Dr. Meeks is assistant clinical professor in the division of geriatric at UCSD. He is currently principle investigator of a study
titled "Inflammatory Markers in Older Adults with Depression and Chronic Pain", funded by NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression).
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David
Naimark, M.D. |
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Dr. Naimark is
a Staff Psychiatrist in the Forensic
Evaluation Unit of the AMHS and an Now Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. Naimark completed
formal clinical and research training at UCSD under the
direction of Dr. Jeste before joining the County in
1999. Dr. Naimark has published a number of
peer-reviewed papers on psychosis and its treatment. In
addition to working in the AMHS, Dr. Naimark maintains a
private practice in the local community where he largely
treats a number of older patients with psychotic
disorders. |
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Hoang
Nguyen, M.D. |
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Dr. Nguyen is
an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and
Co-Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical
Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Nguyen has received the Certificate of Added
Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Nguyen is
actively involved in the care of older patients with
psychosis at a number of sites including the University,
the VA San Diego Healthcare System and at a private
non-academic site in the community. Dr. Nguyen has
served as the PI of an industry-sponsored multicenter
study in older patients with psychotic disorders. |
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Lawrence
Palinkas, Ph.D. |
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Lawrence A. Palinkas is
Professor of Social Work, Anthropology and Preventive
Medicine at the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles, and Adjunct Professor of Family and Preventive
Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. A
medical anthropologist, his primary areas of expertise
lie within preventive medicine, cross-cultural medicine
and health services research. Dr. Palinkas is
particularly interested in health disparities,
implementation science, community-based participatory
research, and the sociocultural and environmental
determinants of health and health-related behavior with
a focus on disease prevention and health promotion. |
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Current research encompasses mental health services,
immigrant health, and global health. Specific projects
explore the mental health needs of older adults,
cultural explanatory models of mental illness and
service utilization, sociocultural change and chronic
disease risk in developing nations and in
immigrant/refugee communities, and the dissemination and
implementation of evidence-based practices for delivery
of mental health services to children, adolescents and
older adults. He also provides expertise to students and
colleagues in the use of qualitative and mixed research
methods. |
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Kevin
Patrick, M.D., M.S |
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Kevin Patrick, MD, MS is Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Sciences at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), San Diego Division. He is a senior advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Active Living Research Program and a member of the RWJF Health Games Research National Advisory Committee. He has been a PI or Co-PI on more than $28 million in research and training grants funded by NIH, CDC, HRSA and others. His current research explores how to use mobile and social technologies to measure and improve health-related behaviors. Further information can be found at the website for Dr. Patrick’s lab: http://cwphs.ucsd.edu
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Thomas
L. Patterson, Ph.D. |
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Thomas L. Patterson, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, and Principal Investigator of the Research Methods Core of UCSD’s Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research (ACISIR), an NIMH-funded project that focuses on older persons with psychosis. He has been conducting psychosocial research with schizophrenia patients since 1992. In 2001, he developed the UCSD Performance-based Skills Assessment (UPSA), which has been chosen by the MATRICS initiative as the standard measure of functional capacity for clinical trials of cognitive remediation in schizophrenia. He was the P.I. of the FAST study (NIH R01 MH62554, Functional Adaptation Skills Training Program for Middle-Aged and Older Persons with Schizophrenia), which has been listed on SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). Currently, Dr. Patterson is the UCSD P.I. of a collaborative study (NIH R01 MH078737, Validating assessments of real-world outcomes) that is attempting to identify optimal measures of real-world functioning in schizophrenia. Due to his expertise in assessment of functional capacity, he has served as a consultant on numerous NIH R01s. Dr. Patterson is a co-editor of Health Psychology, has published over 370 peer-reviewed articles, and serves on a number of NIH scientific review committees.
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Mihaela
Petersen, M.D. |
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Dr. Petersen
is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of California, San Diego. Dr. Petersen
has received the Certificate of Added Qualifications in
Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry
and Neurology. Dr. Petersen completed formal training in
geriatric psychiatry at UCSD and now sees patients in
the VA San Diego Healthcare System as well as the Scripps
Clinic. |
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Jorge Porras, M.D. |
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Jorge Porras, M.D. is a UCSD Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Graduate of the Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine and an attending for the Clinical Fellowship. He received the Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is involved in the care of older adult patients with mental illness through the VA San Diego Healthcare system. His interests are in the area of Latino Issues in mental health; he is Bilingual and contributes to Caregivers of Hispanics with Alzheimer’s Disease through support of Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. |
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Elyn
Saks, J.D. |
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Elyn
R. Saks is Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law and
Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University
of Southern California Law School. She teaches
mental health law to law students, undergraduates, and
psychiatry fellows. Her research is in the area of law
and psychiatry, with a specialization in the ethics of
psychiatric research. She has recently focused most
specifically on capacity to consent to psychiatric
research. Professor Saks is also a Ph.D. candidate at
the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Research. |
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Daniel
Sewell, M.D. |
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Dr. Sewell is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the Director of the UCSD Senior Behavioral Health Program, a state-of-the-art, 14-bed inpatient acute geriatric psychiatry service designed to provide the highest quality individualized clinical care for senior adults needing behavioral health and medical treatment, done in a clinically sophisticated, safe, comfortable, supportive, and responsive treatment environment. Dr. Sewell also serves as the Program Director for the one-year UCSD Geriatric Psychiatry Residency. Dr. Sewell has received his Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has done research and clinical work in psychosis and its treatment for more than 10 years and is actively involved in the care of patients in addition to his administrative and training activities. |
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Ronald
Thomas, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Thomas is
a Professor and Chief of the Division of Biostatistics
in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at
the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Thomas is
also the Director of the Biostatistics and Data
Management Core of the NIA-funded Alzheimer’s Disease
Cooperative Study (ADCS) based at UCSD. Dr. Thomas
brings experience of running a bisotatistics and data
management core of a large multi-site study to the ACISR
CROPP as the ADCS provides support to more than 80 study
sites across the United States and Canada. |
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Elizabeth
Twamley, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Twamley earned a BA in Social Ecology at UC Irvine and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University. She completed her clinical psychology internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCSD and joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry in 2003. She is a faculty member in the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology; a faculty member of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging (SIRA) at UCSD; Associate Director of the Research Fellowship in Geriatric Mental Health; Associate Director for Training in the Advanced Center for Innovation in Services and Intervention Research (ACISIR) of the UCSD Division of Geriatric Psychiatry; and Co-Chief of the Neuropsychology Unit of the Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health (CESAMH), VA San Diego Healthcare System.
Research Focus:
Dr. Twamley's research focuses on bridging neuropsychology and interventions for individuals with severe mental illness or traumatic brain injury. Current intervention studies focus on supported employment and compensatory cognitive training. Other research interests include the neuropsychology of everyday functioning, genetic markers of cognition in schizophrenia, and cognitive impairment in PTSD. Dr. Twamley’s current research is funded by NIMH, the Department of Defense, and NARSAD.
Clinical Focus:
Dr. Twamley is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in neuropsychological assessment, cognitive rehabilitation, and supported employment. She is the Director of the UCSD Supported Employment Program at UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services. Dr. Twamley is particularly interested in community-based interventions that help individuals with severe mental illness or other cognitive impairments reach their highest potential social and occupational functioning. She supervises psychology interns and practicum students at UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. She also conducts a neuropsychological assessment clinic at the St. Vincent De Paul Medical Clinic.
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Julie
Wetherell, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Wetherell earned a B.A. at Yale and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with specialization in aging at the University of Southern California.
After a geropsychology internship at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSD’s Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research in Geriatric Mental Health. Dr.
Wetherell’s research, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs, involves clinical trials of combined pharmacotherapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for geriatric generalized anxiety disorder and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for chronic pain. She also directs the Behavioral Medicine program within the VA San Diego Healthcare System Home-Based Primary Care program, which provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary care services in the homes of older veterans with chronic and disabling disease.
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Pierre Ritchie Honorary Scholarship from the APA, the
USC Kellerman Scholarship in Psychology, the APA
Clinical Geropsychology Section Student Research Award,
and the USC Department of Psychology Dissertation Award.
Dr. Wetherell has already published several papers on
anxiety disorders in older adults as well as
Alzheimer’s disease. She is particularly interested in
research on behavioral interventions for late life
mental disorders. |
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Sidney
Zisook, M.D. |
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Dr. Zisook is
Dr. Zisook is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Residency Training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Zisook is the principal investigator of a newly funded R01, “Improving Outcomes in Complicated Grief” (2009-2014). He is the Director of the Clinical Core of the NIMH-funded Intervention Research Center (IRC) focused on evaluating psychosocial and psychopharmacologic interventions among older patients with psychosis. He has directed numerous psychopharmacologic trials in young and older adults, focusing on patients with depression, treatment resistant depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, and bereavement. In addition, Dr. Zisook has extensive expertise in psychiatric nosology and phenomenology, having completed studies on depression, as well as on depression in patients with HIV, with back pain, and with schizophrenia. He has been a national leader in developing a model psychopharmacology teaching programs for psychiatric training programs, is co-president of the San Diego branch of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention and co-chair of the USCD Workforce on Suicide Prevention for students, house-staff and faculty. |
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