Can Art Combat the Stigma of Women of Color with Substance Use Disorders?
Overdose Risk Behaviors among Latinx Patients.
Black Experience in Addiction Medicine.
Achieving Viral Suppression in HIV-Positive Black Men with Opioid Use Disorder: Comparing of Long-Acting Injectable Naltrexone vs. Long-Acting Injectable Buprenorphine.
Psychosocial Issues and Substance Use Disorders in the Indigenous Population: A Scoping Review.
Patient Perspectives on Low-Threshold Buprenorphine Care and Transitions of Care.
Understanding the Lack of Inclusion of Black People in Psychedelic Research and Treatment: Attitudes, Beliefs, Interest (working title subject to change).
Mental Health Needs Assessment for Community-Level Prenatal Program.
Clinical practices addressing adverse childhood experiences in diverse patient groups with substance use disorders.
Assessment of the use of stigmatizing terms in those with substance use disorders.
Understand utilization of drug testing opportunities by communities of color.
The power of words in the disclosure of substance use disorders by the LGBTQI+ community: A literature review.
Evaluation of admission and readmission rates in Hispanic population with SUD in metro Kansas City.
AUD Among College-aged AI/ NA.
Cohort 3 Scholarly Projects
1) Completion of research article examining the relationship between ACEs and Overdose (OD) in a Southern California outpatient dual diagnosis clinic. A commentary on an augmented ACEs survey identifying social and racial factors not addressed in the original ACEs. 2)Expanding outreach of addiction medicine/psychiatry providers, a commentary on the process of creating a practice and the barriers to providing addiction care.
Evaluating the impact of teaching medical students’ structural competency to improve approaching substance use disorders.
Palliative Care Needs for URM Patients with Substance Use Disorders.
The Impact of Trauma on the Physical Health, Mental Health, Substance Use and Recidivism in Black Men with a History of Incarceration: A Pilot Study.
Changes in Rates of Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses After Implementation of an Institution-wide Substance Use Screening.
The impact of co-located Addiction Psychiatry in a Family Medicine clinic on MAT outcomes.
Exploring patient-related factors behind racial inequities of buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder within MGH primary care practices.
A Qualitative Analysis of the Facilitators and Barriers to the Adaptation of Trauma-Informed Care Discussed by Patients and Clinicians Who Provide Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder as an Outpatient Service.
Assessing Access to Opioid Treatment in High-risk Populations BTGH Substance Abuse Clinic.
Expansion of Addiction Medicine Education at a Family Medicine Residency.
Expanding Narcan Access to Rural Texas.
Cultural Competency (Addressing Implicit Bias in Addictions Treatment).
Using patient-administered, electronic Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (eSBIRT) for perinatal drug use.
Increasing Access to Narcan at the University of Arizona.
Cultural Competency (Addressing Implicit Bias in Addictions Treatment).
Cultural Competency.
Minority Representation Scores in California Physician Assistant Programs.
Maternal substance use and infant ocular defects.
Bridging Scientists to Patients: A Series of Conversations.
Psychedelic Usage Among BIPOC Communities.
Experience of Racial Trauma in Crystal Methamphetamine Using Black Gay Men: A Mixed Method Analysis.
Cultural Competency (Addressing Implicit Bias in Addictions Treatment).
Historical Trauma Experienced by Alaska Native and American Indian People.
Cultural Competency.
BIPOC Psychedelic Use.
Cohort 2 Scholarly Projects
Comparison of treatment of pregnant women with substance use disorder pre and post introduction of the new beginning clinic.
Coursera Addiction Treatment: Clinical Skills for Healthcare Providers Anti-Racism Module.
Disparities, Barriers, and Facilitators in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment Initiation and Engagement among Emerging Adults at Kaiser Napa-Solano Addiction Medicine and Recovery Services.
Prevalence and Predictors of Opioid Use Disorders among Youths with HIV.
Investigating racial and ethnic disparities in Emergency Department opioid use disorder treatment and aftercare planning.
Examining racial and ethnic minority youth access to and retention in the Boston Children’s Hospital – Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) clinic.
Qualitative study investigating facilitators and barriers of patient engaged in MAT/MOUD treatment.
REACH Factor: A Systematic Review of Underrepresented Minority and Female Inclusion in Original Substance Use Research Populations Across National Journals.
SUD in the Latinx population with a focus on Opioid use disorder, Salt Lake County.
Racial disparities in Addiction Psychiatry Care, Gun Violence and Death in Indianapolis (The RAG-I project).
Qualitative analysis of a contingency management program for patients with heart failure and stimulant use disorder through a health equity lens.
CATHY Project- CAtch THem Young; Engaging Teenagers in Preventing Substance Misuse and Associated Problems.
Pocket Addiction Medicine Handbook.
Faith Based OUD Education and Narcan Training.
Systematic evaluation of addiction psychiatry fellowship program websites.
Health Equity Case Conferences: A pilot interdisciplinary case conference to address implicit bias and structural racism in faculty, trainees and clinicians.
Mental Health First Aid Training: Effect of training on knowledge, stigma, and helping Behavior in Latinx populations in service planning area 6 (SPA6) communities in Los Angeles County.
Undergoing revision/developing a new project under the supervision of local and professional mentor.
Magnifying Voices: provide wider scale platform (podcasting) to voice research and new discoveries made through addiction research on URM populations.
Cohort 1 Scholarly Projects
Paper: Perceptions and biases of opioid addiction and MAT in Spanish speaking Latinx population.
Paper: Buprenorphine linkage needs assessment & critique at re-entry.
Paper: Barriers to and facilitators of buprenorphine utilization for opioid use disorder in Black and Latino populations: a scoping review.
QI: Improving Opioid Use Disorder treatment in URM communities served by Community Health Centers, Inc. 2. Created a substance use disorder implementation workgroup in the Community Health Center. Implemented a low barrier buprenorphine clinic.
QI: Created a resiliency education and training for SUD residential treatment facilities.
Paper: Perceptions of racial discrimination in the medical setting among Black patients seeking treatment for SUD.
Paper: Cognitive Outcomes of Young Children After Prenatal Exposure to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder.
Paper: Cannabis: Legalization vs Decriminalization. Also hosted a weekly group with the youth in the Harlem community called “What Makes Me Cool,” where they discuss substance use, exposure in the community, and how it impacts their lives.
QI: Expanded x-waiver training for graduates at the Yale School of Nursing.
QI: Preparing primary care physicians to treat addiction: inclusion of addiction training during internal medicine residency.
QI: Reach One, Teach One. Revising medical school curriculum to include race relations, intersectionality, and bias as they pertain to access to and equity of health. Expanded the Alcohol Use & Misuse portion of the course to address substance use disorders as well as the stigmas that patients with SUDs face in the healthcare setting care in the Psychosocial Issues in Healthcare course.
QI: Teaching structural vulnerabilities into a psychiatry orientation and an interviewing skills class with MS3 students starting psychiatry rotations.
Presentation: 90-minute presentation at APA in Philly in April, titled: “Land of the Free Labor: The Psychosocial Health of the Black Community as a consequence of Criminalization, From the 13th amendment to the War on Drugs.” Also, developed a 2-part educational webinar on providing structurally competent substance use disorder treatment to URM populations for the Missouri Office of Mental Health.
QI: Developed and led a psychotherapy group using the Seeking Safety model for African-American males with substance use and Trauma in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Presented findings on a panel at AMERSA 2020.
QI: Implementing a social determinants of health curriculum into our didactics schedule for our UCSD Psychiatry PGY1 class.
Paper: Perceived barriers to access care, anticipated discrimination and structural vulnerability among African Americans with substance use disorders.
QI: Notecard for student’s white coats that includes ready-made questions on structural determinants of health that medical students can have on-hand during clerkships when they encounter an URM with SUD.
