ISAP Researchers' Profiles

Daniel L. Dickerson, D.O., M.P.H.

Daniel Dickerson. D.O., M.P.H. is a double board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist and is an Assistant Research Psychiatrist at the Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been affiliated with ISAP since 2007. He is also chair of the American Psychiatric Association, Committee of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Psychiatrists.

His research interests focus on substance abuse behaviors among American Indians/Alaska Natives and in developing culturally-tailored substance abuse treatments for American Indians/Alaska Natives. He research interests also include community participatory research and in translating his research findings to the broader community. Dr. Dickerson has authored publications on the inclusion of women and minorities in smoking cessation clinical trials, nicotine dependence and comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders in a sample of American Indian Veterans, and has co-authored a chapter on minorities in The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment.

Education and Training

• Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia, B.S., Biochemistry, 1997
• Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, D.O., 2001
• Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, General Psychiatry Residency, 2001-2005
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2005-2007, Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
• A.T. Still University, Kirksville, Missouri, 2008, Master of Public Health

Specialties

• Evaluation of substance use characteristics in American Indian/Alaska Native populations
• The role of culture on substance use behaviors
• Development of substance abuse treatments for American Indians/Alaska Natives

Contact Info

UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
1640 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(562) 277-0310
daniel.dickerson@ucla.edu

Selected Publications

Dickerson DL, Schaepper MA, Peterson MD, Ashworth MD: Coricidin HBP Abuse: Patient characteristics and psychiatric manifestations as recorded in an inpatient psychiatric unit. J Addict Dis 2008; 27: 25-32

Westermeyer J, Dickerson DL. (2008) The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, Fourth Edition. Chapter: Minorities.

Dickerson, DL: Meeting the mental health care needs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities, NAMI Advocate, Winter 2006.

Dickerson DL, Leeman RF, Mazure CM, O’Malley SS: Inclusion of women and minorities in clinical trials of FDA-approved pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. In press, American Journal on Addictions.

Dickerson DL, O’Malley S, Canive J, Thuras P, Westermeyer J: Nicotine Dependence and comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders in a sample of American Indian Veterans, Accepted for publication, Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Dickerson DL, Pittman B, Ralevski E, Perrino A, Limoncelli D, Edgecombe J, Acampora G, Krystal JH, Petrakis I: A Comparison of GABA-ergic and NMDA drug effects: relevance to alcoholism research in human volunteers, Accepted for publication, Journal of Psychopharmacology.

Last updated - 07/01/2008

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