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Department of Psychiatry

Department of Psychology

David B. Arciniegas, MD

      David B. Arciniegas, MD

 

Bldg. 500, Level 2, Rm. N2227B

Phone:  303-724-4998

Email:  Dr. Arciniegas

 

 

 

David B. Arciniegas, MD

Associate Professor


 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, AND HONORS

Positions and Employment:

Internship in Community Medicine, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, 1992-1993

Residency in Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, 1993-1996

Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience Research, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, 1996-1999

Fellowship in Neuroscience Research and Traumatic Brain Injury (including PTSD), Department of Veteran's Affairs, Office of Academic Affairs, Special Fellowships Program, 1996-1999

Academic Appointments

a. Intramural

Instructor/Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Denver (UCD), 1996 – 1999           

Instructor/Fellow, Department of Neurology, UCD, 1998 – 1999           

Member, Behavioral Neurology Section, Department of Neurology, UCD, 1998 – present       

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, UCD, 1999 – 2006           

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology (with tenure), UCD, 2006 – present       

 

b. Extramural  

Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Buffalo Medical School, 2002                    

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, 2006 – present       

 Visiting Professor, Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, 2008  

                    

Professional Positions (selected)

a. Current Intramural Professional Positions

 Director, Neuropsychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 2000 – present       

Director, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training Program, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, UCD, 2006 – present       

Director, Neurobehavioral Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 2006 – present 

      

b. Past Intramural Professional Positions

Associate Director, Medical Student Education, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 1997 – 1999           

Associate Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program, UCD, 2002 – 2003           

Director, Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 2002 – 2006           

 

c.  Current Extramural Professional Positions

Consultant, Accreditation Council, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS), 2004 – present       

Associate Editor, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2005 – present       

Member, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Examination Writing Committee, UCNS, 2005 – present       

Member, National Institutes of Health, Center for Scientific Review, Adult Psychopathology and Disorders of Aging (APDA) and ZRG1 BBBP-M (60) (Charter Member, 2008 – present), 2007 – present       

Member, USLME Neurology/Neuroscience Task Force, National Board of Medical Examiners, 2008 – present       

Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital, Aurora, CO, 2008 – present       

Elected Member, Executive Committee, International Neuropsychiatric Association, 2008 – present       

Associate Editor, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment (Dove Medical Press), 2008 – present       

Guest Editor, NeuroRehabilitation, Special issue on hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, 2008 – present       

Councilor, Governing Council, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2009 – present       

Chair, External Advisory Committee, Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Center of Excellence, Michael E. DeBakey VAMC, Houston, Texas, 2009 – present       

Member, Editorial Board, Brain Injury (Informa Healthcare), 2009 – present    

   

d. Past Extramural Professional Positions

Director, Medical Education Program, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo, 1998 – 2002           

Chair, Colorado Brain Injury Advisory Board, Colorado Department of Human Services, 1998 – 2002           

Chair, Curriculum Task Force, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2001 – 2004           

Co-Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital (SRH), Aurora, CO, 2001 – 2008           

Chair, Finance and Development Committee, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2001 – 2009           

Member, Board of Directors, Brain Injury Association of Colorado, 2002 – 2006           

Charter Board Member (Governor’s Appointee) Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Trust Fund Board, Department of Human Services, State of Colorado, 2002 – 2009           

President, Colorado Psychiatric Society, 2005 – 2006           

President of the Medical Staff and Chair of the Credentialing Committee, HealthONE SRH, 2006, 2007             

Invited Panelist, Secretary of Veterans Affairs International Round Table on Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Stress Disorders, 2008                      

 

Honors (selected):

William Webb Fellowship Award, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 1997                      

Jay Scully, M.D. Award - Teacher, Advocate, and Friend, Residency Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 1998  

Eleanor A. Steele Award in Recognition of Inspirational Teaching and Supervision, Residency Training Program, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 1999, 2001, 2003    

Young Investigator Award, Brain Injury Association of America, 2000                      

Fellow, Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 2000                      

Total Learning Environment – Innovations in Education Award, Office of Education, UCD, 2001                      

Recipient, Michael K. Cooper Professorship in Neurocognitive Disease, Department of Psychiatry, UCD, 2003                      

Fellow, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2005                      

Outstanding Contribution Award, Brain Injury Association of Colorado, 2005                      

Award of Tenure, UCD, 2006     

                 

Teaching Activities (current):

Course Director and Lecturer, Geriatric Treatment Center Bi-Monthly Neuropsychiatry Grand Rounds, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (9 hours/year), 1998 – present         

Inpatient Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Consultation Rotation [at SRH], Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training Program, UCD (3 hours/week [Monday AM], 48 weeks/year: 144 hours/year), 2002 – present         

Lecturer (Neuropsychiatry of Traumatic Brain Injury), Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program, UCD (2 hours/year), 2003 – present         

Molecular Basis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (NRSC 7614), Neuroscience Training Program, UCD (1 hour/year), 2005 – present         

Course Director, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellow Seminar, Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training Program, UCD (72 hours/year), 2006 – present         

Lecturer (Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Series), Neurology Residency Training Program, UCD (3 hours/year), 2006 – present         

Inpatient Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Consultation Rotation [at SRH], Psychiatry Residency Training Program, UCD (3 hours/week [Monday PM], 48 weeks/year: 144 hours/year), 2009 – present        

 

Clinical Activities:

Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Consultation Service, Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo (1 day/month), 1998 – present    

Neuropsychiatry Clinic (UPI faculty practice), Department of Psychiatry, UCD (0.5 day/month), 1999 – present         

Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry Consultation Service  (UPI faculty practice), HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital (4 days/month), 2001 – present         

 

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PUBLICATIONS

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1. Publications in Refereed Journals (selected from among 93 published or in press)  

Arciniegas DB, Adler LE, Topkoff J, Cawthra E, Filley CM, Reite ML. Attention and memory dysfunction after traumatic brain injury: cholinergic mechanisms, sensory gating, and a hypothesis for further investigation.  Brain Injury 13(1):1-13, 1999.

Arciniegas DB, Olincy A, Topkoff J, McRae K, Cawthra E, Filley CM, Reite M, Adler LE. Impaired auditory gating and P50 nonsuppression following traumatic brain injury.  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 12(1):77-85, 2000.

Arciniegas DB, Topkoff J, Rojas DC, Sheeder J, Teale P, Young D, Sandberg E, Reite ML, Adler LE.  Reduced hippocampal volume in association with P50 nonsuppression following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 13(2):213-221, 2001.

Filley CM, Arciniegas DB, Wood GV, Anderson CA, Cheney E, Dygert CR, Summerall L, Goos RB. Geriatric Treatment Center: a contemporary model for collaboration between psychiatry and neurology. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 14:344-350, 2002.

Arciniegas DB. The cholinergic hypothesis of cognitive impairment following traumatic brain injury. Current Psychiatry Reports 5:391-399, 2003.

Arciniegas DB, Topkoff JL. Applications of the P50 evoked response to the evaluation of cognitive impairments following traumatic brain injury. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America 15:177-203, 2004.

Arciniegas DB, Topkoff JL, Anderson CA, McAllister TW. Mild traumatic brain injury: a neuropsychiatric approach to diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 1(4):311-327, 2005.

Arciniegas DB, Kaufer DI, and the Joint Advisory Committee on Subspecialty Certification of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology. Core Curriculum for Training in Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 18:6-13, 2006.

Silver J, Koumaras B, Chen M, Mirski D, Potkin SG, Reyes P, Warden D, Harvey PD, Arciniegas D, Katz D, Gunay I. The effects of rivastigmine on cognitive function in patients with traumatic brain injury. Neurology 67:748-755, 2006. 

Kim E, Lauterbach EC, Reeve A, Arciniegas DB, Coburn KL, Mendez MF, Rummans TA, Coffey EC, ANPA Committee on Research. Neuropsychiatric complications of traumatic brain injury: a critical review of the literature (a report by the ANPA Committee on Research). Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 19(2):106-127, 2007. 

Wortzel HS, Filley CM, Anderson CA, Oster T, Arciniegas DB. Forensic applications of cerebral single photon emission computed tomography in mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 36:310-322, 2008.

Arciniegas DB, McAllister TW. Neurobehavioral management of traumatic brain in injury in the critical care setting. Critical Care Clinics 24(4):737-765, 2008.

Silver JM, Koumaras B, Meng X, Potkin SG, Reyes P, Harvey PD, Katz DI, Gunay I, Arciniegas DB. Long-term effects of rivastigmine in patients with traumatic brain injury with cognitive deficits: results of a 26-week open-label extension to a 12-week double-blind study. Brain Injury 23(2):123-132, 2009.

 

2. Books

Arciniegas DB, Beresford TP (authors).  An Introductory Approach to Neuropsychiatry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 438 pages.

Arciniegas DB, Anderson CA, Filley CM (editors). Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (in preparation).

Arciniegas DB, Vanderploeg RD, Jaffee MS (editors). Clinical Manual for the Management of Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (in preparation).

 

3. Book Chapters (selected from among 15 published or in press)

Arciniegas DB, Dubovsky SL. Dementia Due to Other General Medical Conditions and Dementia Due to Multiple Etiologies. In Gabbard GO: Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, 3rd Edition. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press Inc., 2001, pp. 535-574.

Arciniegas DB, Anderson CA, Rojas DC. Electrophysiological Techniques. In Silver JM, McAllister TW, Yudofsky SC: In Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., 2004, pp. 135-157.

Arciniegas DB, McAllister TW, Kaufer DI. Cognitive Impairment. In Coffey CE, McAllister TW, Silver JM: Guide to Neuropsychiatric Therapeutics. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006, pp. 24-78.

Arciniegas DB, Silver JM. Pharmacotherapy of Cognitive Impairment. In Zasler ND, Katz DI, Zafonte RD: Brain Injury Medicine: Principles and Practice. Demos Medical Publishing, 2006, pp. 995-1022.

Arciniegas DB, Anderson CA. Inpatient Management of the Brain-Injured and Developmentally Disabled Patient. In Ovisew F, Munich R: Principles of Inpatient Psychiatry. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008, pp. 307-332.

Arciniegas DB, Coffey CE, Cummings JL. Neurobiological Basis of Behavior. In Coffey CE, Cummings JL: Textbook of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry. American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. (in press).

 

4. Book Reviews, Non-Refereed Scholarly Reviews, & Other Articles: 28 published or in press

 

5. Published Peer-Reviewed Abstracts: 73 published

 

Grants and Contracts:

1.  Ongoing Research Grants 

NIH/NIMH 1 R01 MH081920-01A1, (PI: Rojas DC),  6/01/09 – 05/31/13
“Sensorimotor abnormalities in childhood onset psychiatric disorders”
Role: Co-Investigator

 

NIH/NIA 1 R21 AG028609-01 (PI: Harris JG), 02/15/08 – 01/31/10
“Norms for the Assessment of Memory Impairments in Spanish Speaking Adults”
Role: Co-Investigator  

                                                                          

DoD W81XWH-08-2-0652 (PI: Beresford TP), 10/15/08 – 10/14/12
“A Double Blind Trial of Divalproex Sodium for Affective Lability and Alcohol Use Following TBI”
Role: Consultant

 

NIH/NICHD 5R01HD047242-02 (PI: McAllister TW), 07/01/06 – 04/30/11
“RCT Methylphenidate & Memory/Attention Training in TBI” 
Role: Site Principal Investigator

 

2. Completed Research Grants (selected from among 33 projects)

Orasi Medical, Inc. (ADG-0801) (PI: Arciniegas DB),  3/01/08 – 03/05/09
“Improved Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and the Synchronous Neural Interaction”

Role: National and Local PI

 

CDC R01 CI000224-04 (PI: Arciniegas DB), 09/01/04 – 08/31/08
“West Nile Virus: Neurobehavioral and Functional Outcome”       
Role: Principal Investigator

 

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NCT00171795) (PI: Silver JM), 11/01/02 – 05/31/05
“Efficacy and Safety of Rivastigmine in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury and Cognitive Impairment”
Role: Consultant (protocol developer)

 

Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Office of Rsch & Devel., Research Career Development Award, Level I, 04/01/99 – 03/31/02
“Clinical and Electrophysiologic Investigation of Attention and Memory Dysfunction following TBI”
Role: Awardee/Principal Investigator

 

3. Ongoing Contracts

Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC, United States Medical Research and Materiel Command),  06/30/10 – 06/29/12
“Program Analyst/Subject Matter Expert/Contract Officer Representative”
Role: Contractor     

 

4. Completed Contracts

HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital (HealthONE),  9/01/08 – 08/18/10
“Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital”
Role: UPI Administrative Contract – Developer/Awardee     

 

VISN 19 MIRECC (Denver VAMC), 07/01/05 – 06/30/08
“Fellowship Training Development Consultant”
Role: Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Agreement – Awardee

 

HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital (HealthONE), 09/01/01 – 08/31/08
“Co-Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital”
Role: UPI Administrative Contract – Developer/Awardee

 

HealthONE Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital(HealthONE),  07/01/02 – 06/31/08
“Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry”
Role: SRH-UCD Department of Psychiatry Contract – Developer/Manager