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Angela is joining us as our Business Services Coordinator. This position will provide administrative and business services support to the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health.

Drs. Asuquo (UNC Gillings School of Public Health), Goodman, Gaynes, and Nakamura propose an adaptation of a collaborative care model for implementation and evaluation of proactive consultation-liaison psychiatry services to improve management of patients with psychiatric conditions who are hospitalized on inpatient medical and surgical services

In this longitudinal study of patients hematologic cancers, Drs. Nakamura, Rosenstein, and colleagues identified that cognitive impairment was common over the 6 months following stem cell transplantation. However, cognition incrementally improved among study participants over time and, of importance, more severe disease and aggressive prior treatment did not impede this...

Self-determination refers to an individual’s capacity and opportunities to act as a causal agent in their own lives to make choices, decisions, and set goals. Both depression and executive function skills were related to self-determination capacity in autistic transition-aged youth, highlighting potential intervention targets to facilitate increased self-determination and potentially...

We validated the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder screen (GAD-7) and Primary Care PTSD screen for DSM-5 (PC-PTSD-5) in a methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) patient population in Hanoi, Vietnam. The prevalence of CMDs in the MMT population was lower than expected. A lower cut-off score may be considered...

We constructed a preliminary model for the natural history of major depression. We determined that the lifetime prevalences are underestimated and the average incidence rates may be underestimated for males. We conclude that recall bias needs to be accounted for in modeling or burden estimates, where the recall bias should...