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Community and Behavioral Health - Colorado School of Public Health

Community and Behavioral Health - Colorado School of Public Health
 

Douglas Novins, MD 

Associate Professor 
Research Interests:
  • American Indian Children and Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Use
  • Psychiatric Epidemiology
  • “Telemental Health”, the use of videoconferencing and other technologies to improve access to mental health services in remote, rural communities.
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    Current Research Projects:
  • NIDA: Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) and Substance Abuse Treatment for Native Americans (5/08 - 2/12, Principal Investigator): The specific aims of this project are as follows: 1) to describe the use of specific EBPs in substance abuse treatment programs serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities; 2) to describe the factors associated with the decision to implement EBPs in these programs; and 3) to identify methods for more effective dissemination of EBPs to substance abuse treatment programs serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
  • NIMH: Intervention Development for Traumatized American Indian Adolescents (9/06 - 6/10, Principal Investigator): Goals are to: 1) assess the relevance, feasibility, and sustainability of potential interventions for traumatized adolescents with comorbid substance use problems who are served by the a residential substance abuse treatment program for American Indian adolescents; 2) target the highest ranked interventions for subsequent development and pilot testing; and 3) describe and analyze this investigative process itself so that the methods that emerge can be used for similar intervention development efforts in American Indian and non-Indian communities.
    • Education:
  • Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., A.B., History and Premedical, 1983
  • College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, N.Y., M.D., May 1987
  • New York University Medical Center, New York, N.Y.:  The Residency Training Program in Psychiatry, Resident Physician in Psychiatry, 1987-1990, Chief Resident in Psychiatry, 1990-1991
  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado:  Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Resident Physician in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1992-1993, Chief Resident in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1993-1994
  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado: NIMH Postdoctoral Training Program in Developmental Psychobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1994-1995
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