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Partnership for Excellence in Mental Health
Interventions Education and Research
Program Faculty
The following Duke research faculty members will be involved in the PREMIER program. An asterisk indicates minority
faculty.
| Child psychiatry | Type of research |
| *Lisa Amaya-Jackson, M.D., M.P.H. | Clinical trials in childhood PTSD and other anxiety disorders |
| Melanie J. Bonner, Ph.D. | Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for African-American teens with lupus |
| Allan Chrisman, M.D. | Pharmacologic clinical trials in child psychiatry |
| *Stephanie Coard, Ph.D. | Racial,
ethnic and cultural influences on child mental
health treatment and prevention; cultural adaptations of
clinical interventions and community dissemination |
| Scott Compton, Ph.D. | Aerobic Exercise in adolescent depression |
| Jeffrey N. Epstein, Ph.D. | ADHD clinical trials |
| John S. March, M.D., M.P.H. | Clinical trials in childhood anxiety disorders and ADHD |
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| Family Therapy | Type of research
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| Karen Wells, Ph.D. | Behavioral intervention for substance abusing adolescents and ADHD clinical trials |
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| Adult/Geriatric clinical trials | Type of research
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| John L. Beyer, M.D. | Geriatric depression and bipolar disorder treatment trials |
| Frederick Cassidy, M.D. | Pharmacological Trials of Bipolar Disorder |
| *P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D. |
Adult and geriatric depression trials; MCI and AD
trials |
| *Kishore Gadde, M.D. | Pharmacological trials of obesity and mental disorders in medical patients |
| Richard Keefe, Ph.D. | Neuropsychology outcomes and functional imaging in schizophrenia |
| *K. Ranga R. Krishnan, M.D. | Clinical trials in depression, bipolar disorder, and non-cardiac chest pain |
| Andrew D. Krystal, M.D. | ECT dosing trial
| Joseph McEvoy, M.D. | Schizophrenia Clinical Trials (PI of the Duke CATIE site for schizophrenia) |
| Zach Rosenthal, Ph.D. |
Virtual Reality in PTSD |
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| Behavioral Medicine | Type of research
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| James A. Blumenthal, Ph.D. | Exercise in geriatric depression clinical trial |
| James Lane, Ph.D. | Smoking Cessation, Caffeine Research |
| Isaac Lipkus, Ph.D. | Smoking Cessation in college students |
| Jed E. Rose, Ph.D. | Smoking Cessation Trials |
| Timothy Strauman, Ph.D. | Behavioral therapy |
| Richard S. Surwit, Ph.D. | Cognitive-Behavioral therapy in depressed diabetics |
| Redford Williams, M.D. | Life skills training |
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| Health Services Interventions | Type of research
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| Jeffrey Swanson, Ph.D. | Health services interventions in severely mentally ill populations |
| Marvin S. Swartz, M.D. | Health services interventions in severely mentally ill populations |
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| Substance Abuse interventions | Type of research
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| Paolo Mannelli, M.D.. | Substance abuse services interventions (NIDA Clinical Trials Network) |
| Ashwin Patkar, M.D. | Substance abuse services interventions (NIDA Clinical Trials Network) |
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| Primary Care | Type of research
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| Hayden B. Bosworth, Ph.D. | Adherence to treatment in hypertension and depression |
| *Rowena Dolor, M.D. | Depression treatment trials in adults in primary care |
| Eugene Z. Oddone, M.D. | Depression specialist intervention in primary care |
| John W. Williams, M.D., M.P.H. | Treatment of depression and glucose control in depressed diabetics |
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| Faculty
Partners at Other Participating Institutions |
| L. DiAnne Bradford, Ph.D. (Morehouse) |
| Nicholas S. Ialongo, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University) |
| Scott Stroup, M.D.
(University of North Carolina) |
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