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44th Annual Summer Clinical Institute
June 2-3, 2015
David Deitch, PhD, is the Interim Director of the Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training and Application (CCARTA) at the University of California San Diego. He is a Clinical and Social Psychologist, currently Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Deitch has over 45 years of experience in the development of drug abuse treatment systems for adolescents and adults, nationally and internationally. In the non-profit public health sector, he was Co-Founder of Daytop Village, Inc., and also served as Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Phoenix House’s Foundation. In the academic sector, he has had appointments at Temple University, the University of Chicago, University of California at San Francisco, as well as serving as Chief of Substance Abuse Services for the University of California, San Francisco. In the government sector, he has served as Coordinator of Curriculum and Faculty for the United Nations East Central European Drug Abuse Treatment Training Project; has consulted to a variety of Department of Corrections and Ministries of Justice and Health, in Latin America, SE Asia and Europe. Dr. Deitch served during the Johnson Administration as consultant to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, and the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. During the Carter Administration, he chaired the White House Task Force on Prevention. He chaired the Curriculum Development Committee of the National Addiction Technology Transfer Centers, Technical Assistance Publication Series 21 — The Addiction Counseling Competencies: The Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Professional Practice, used today as a guideline for corrections and community based substance abuse treatment organizations. He has further served as Regional Director of the Executive Committee of the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse — Mentor Project (2000). He has numerous publications (and videos) in the field.
2014 UCSD Faculty
Robert M. Anthenelli, M.D. is the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health at the VA San Diego Healthcare System (VASDHS). He is also a Professor
and Vice Chair for VA Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at the
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine, and
Director of the Pacific Treatment and Research Center.
He returns to the San Diego VA and UCSD after a 14-year stint as Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati (UC) where he was the founding director of the Center of Excellence for Treatment, Research and Education in Addictive Disorders. He directed the Tri-State Tobacco and Alcohol Research Center at UC and the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center (CVAMC), and the Substance Dependence Program at the CVAMC.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he completed his residency and fellowship training at the VASDHS and UCSD. He served as the Senior Resident on the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program, and additional post-doctoral training included a 2-year fellowship in addiction psychiatry research that was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. He previously served on the faculty at UCSD (1992-96) where he directed the Substance Abuse / Mental Illness program.
The overarching theme of Dr. Anthenelli’s research is to develop improved treatments for tobacco and alcohol dependence by better understanding the neurobiology of the disorders. He is the author or co-author of over 150 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and published abstracts. Support for his research is provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and various industry sponsors.
Dr. Anthenelli is the recipient of a Young Investigator award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine and he has been selected among the Best Doctors and Top Psychiatrists in America. The program he directed at the CVAMC was selected as a National Tobacco Cessation Clinical Resource Center, and was also awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs, Under Secretary for Health’s Award as a Clinical Program of Excellence in Substance Abuse. He is the editor of the substance use disorders section of Current Psychiatry, and serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Addiction Medicine, Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, and Alcohol Research: Current Reviews.
Mark A. Geyer, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences Emeritus at the University of California San Diego. A pioneer in the translational study of sensorimotor gating deficits in schizophrenia and related animal models, Dr. Geyer directs the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit of the VISN 22 VA’s Mental Illness Research, Clinical, and Education Center and is Associate Chief of Psychophysiology of the VA Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health. He was involved intensively in the NIMH-funded MATRICS, TURNS, and CNTRICS Programs. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers and many reviews, chapters, and edited books. His research program has been supported continuously by grants from NIMH and NIDA for 30+ years. He is Associate Editor of Neuropsychopharmacology, Fellow and Council Member of the ACNP, Fellow of AAAS and American Psychological Society, Past-President of the Serotonin Club, Past-President and Fellow of International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, member of Scientific Council of NARSAD, Scientific Advisor to European Union’s Innovative Medicine Initiative, and 2011 awardee of Bleuler Prize for Research in the Schizophrenias.
Dr. Geyer’s research group focuses on developing parallel behavioral and psychophysiological paradigms in animals and humans for use in psychiatric drug discovery. We use startle measures of habituation, prepulse inhibition, anxiety potentiation, and fear extinction that are deficient in psychiatric disorders and can be mimicked in rodents by pharmacological, developmental, and genetic manipulations. Dr. Geyer has developed a Behavioral Pattern Monitor for use in rats, mice, and humans. These systems provide cross-species translational and multivariate assessments of spatio-temporal patterns of exploratory behavior and are being used in comparisons of schizophrenia and bipolar mania in relationship to corresponding animal models. Animal models in the laboratory include pharmacological manipulations, a variety of developmental perturbations, and genetic models involving strain comparisons, knockouts, and humanized mutant mice, most of which are related to psychotic and/or stress-related disorders. A current focus of the laboratory is the development of murine tests of specific cognitive domains relevant to the MATRICS and CNTRICS efforts to treat cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.
Scott McClure, Ph.D., is self-employed as consultant and trainer of evidenced based mental health, addiction, and criminal offender interventions. He is a long-term contract trainer and consultant for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) were he provides training on Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral & Relapse prevention strategies to professionals in an effort to enhance offender employment retention. Prior to this he was employed as a Psychologist for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR) at Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (SATF) & Mule Creek State Prison (MCSP) respectively, where he provided individual and group rehabilitative treatment, crisis management, and case management for Minimum to Maximum Security inmates with mild to severe mental health and substance misuse needs. Prior to employment with CDCR, Dr. McClure was the Principal Learning Skills Counselor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) Center for Criminality & Addiction Research, Training, & Application (CCARTA). While at CCARTA he supervised a professional team of trainers, was in charge of curriculum design and development, as well as the dissemination of evidenced based practices for criminal offender treatment to front-line correctional professionals. Dr. McClure has also worked for the UCSD Co-Occurring disorders outpatient clinic, St. Vincent De Paul’s Village, and the Jary Barretto Crisis Center providing evidence based treatment, training, and life skills training for individuals with co-occurring mental health, substance use, and criminal offender backgrounds. Dr. McClure has over 14-years of experience working with individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and criminal justice populations. He is equipped with strong clinical and training facilitation experience. Specialties Include: Motivational Interviewing (MI), Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Offender Employment Retention, Inmate Politics and Staff Manipulation, Trauma Informed Treatment, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Illness, Management, & Recover for Co-Occurring Disordered Individuals (IMR). His clinical and research interests include evidenced based treatment/interventions, criminality & addiction, workforce development, leadership enhancement, stress management, and multicultural considerations. Dr. McClure’s publication topics include Addiction Treatment, Workforce Development, Co-Occurring Disorders, and Trauma Informed Treatment for Offender Populations.
Carmen Pulido, Ph.D., has been working in addictions research with youth for over 11 years. As a graduate student, at the San Diego State University/ UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, she conducted research with SDSU and UCSD college students and adolescents through Dr. Tapert’s Adolescent Brain Imaging Project.
Dr. Pulido’s dissertation consisted on developing an Alcohol Cue Reactivity task for its use during neuroimaging. Dr. Pulido received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, with an emphasis in Neuropsychology, in 2008. Dr. Pulido is currently supported through a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Dr. Pulido’s research focus is on alcohol cue reactivity among youth. She is the principal investigator of a study of the effect of alcohol treatment, as compared to abstinence alone, on alcohol cue reactivity on an adolescent sample using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Dr. Pulido is also examining the development alcohol cue reactivity among at-risk adolescents. She is investigating what can neuronal responses to alcohol cues inform us regarding adolescents’ current and future problem drinking behavior.
During her training, Dr. Pulido completed practicums at the San Diego VA Medical Center in the Neuropsychology Assessment Unit and Substance and Mental Illness clinic. She completed her clinical internship at San Diego Kaiser Permanente where she provided bilingual services. Dr. Pulido's post doctoral training included neuropsychological fellowships at the San Diego VA Medical Center Substance and Mental Illness clinic and UCSD Hillcrest Medical Center.
Dr. Pulido is a licensed clinical psychologist in the state of California. She conducts cognitive behavioral therapy and neuropsychological assessments in English and Spanish. She is a psychologist at the Veterans Healthcare System San Diego.
California, San Diego and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. Dr. Schuckit received his BS from the University of
Wisconsin, an MD from Washington University, interned at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and was a resident in psychiatry at
Washington University and UCSD. He was a special advisor to the Commanding Officer of the Naval Health Research Center,
and the first Director of the Alcohol and Drug Institute, University of Washington (1975-1978). He returned to San Diego as
Professor and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program, University of California, San Diego and the VA San Diego
Healthcare System. Dr. Schuckit’s major focus is alcohol and drugs. He was Chair of the DSM-IV substance disorders workgroup and has published papers about the optimal diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders. Regarding the genetics of alcoholism, he has carried out adoption studies, identified a genetic characteristic that impacts on elevated alcoholism risk (the low level of response to alcohol), and is now searching for related genes. He is currently completing a 20-year follow-up (97% success rate) of sons of alcoholics where he is trying to identify environmental events that might relate to whether biological predisposition toward alcohol dependence is expressed. An additional research area is co-morbidity between substance use disorders and major psychiatric conditions.
Dr. Schuckit directs the Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, supervising residents, medical students and staff. He is also a major contact person regarding alcohol and drug problems in faculty and staff at UCSD and the San Diego VA. Additional clinical interests include the treatment of depressive disorders, anxiety conditions, and geriatric psychiatric populations.
Caroline Ridout Stewart, LCSW, was an intern at UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services in 1983. She is comfortable calling herself an “old timer” and has a deep and informed appreciation and understanding of the complex issues involved when one suffers from a psychiatric illness. Caroline is an expert in the treatment of anxiety disorders with particular interest in persons who suffer from panic and depersonalization. She ran the Panic Disorder Program here at Psychiatric Associates in the early 90s and now runs the CBT Group program for anxiety disorders with both an introductory and advanced group. Caroline also enjoys integrating mindfulness practices into all of her anxiety treatment. Caroline is the past--president of the Board of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing) and enjoys working both with persons who suffer from addictive illness and with their families. Caroline also sits on the board of the California Public Protection and Physician Health, Inc. This board works to promote confidential psychiatric treatment for physicians suffering from both addictive and psychiatric illness. Caroline was invited by Jim Hay, MD, past-President of the California Medical Society, to sit on this board because of her clinically-informed understanding of the need for a more harm-reductionist view of the treatment of co-occurring disorders. Caroline has been recognized as the San Diego recipient of the San Diego Business Journal’s 2010 Women Who Mean Business award. In July of this past year, she traveled to Washington, DC when A New PATH received the Joel Hernandez award sponsored by Faces and Voices of Recovery in recognition of PATH’s unrelenting advocacy for persons with addictive illness. Caroline is an adopted mother, essayist and artist.
Millicent Tidwell, JD was appointed Director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs (DRP) within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation by Governor Jerry Brown on November 19, 2013. She most recently served as the Associate Director of the Office of Offender Services within the DRP. Previously, she served with the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, as the Deputy Director over the Office of Criminal Justice Collaboration from August 2005 to June 2013. Ms. Tidwell served with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from May 2000 to June 2005 as the Chief of Mentally III Offender Services within the Division of Adult Parole Operations. Ms. Tidwell received her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Lincoln Law School and was in private practice several years before accepting a position in 1999 as a policy analyst in the area of public safety in the Office of Planning and Research with Governor Gray Davis.
Karla D. Wagner, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Her research and public health practice focus on preventing adverse health outcomes among substance users, including HIV, viral hepatitis, and fatal drug overdose. She has provided technical assistance and research evaluation support for overdose prevention and naloxone distribution programs in Southern California.