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Department of Psychiatry

Department of Psychology

James H. Shore, MD

        James H. Shore, MD

 

Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Bldg., Rm. 355

Phone:  303-724-1035

EmailDr. James Shore

 

James H. Shore, MD

Chancellor Emeritus and Professor


 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, AND HONORS

Positions and Employment:

Intern, University of Utah, 1965-1966

Resident, University of Washington, 1966-1969

Chief, Mental Health Office, Portland Area Indian Health Service, 1969 – 1973           

Chairman, Mental Health Research Committee, Indian Health Service, 1970 – 1973           

Chairman, Committee on Data and Evaluation, Indian Health Service, 1971 – 1973           

Consultant, American Indian Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, 1971 – 1973           

Consultant, National Tribal Chairmen’s Association, 1974 – 1981           

Professor and Chairman, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, 1975 – 1985           

Chairman/Superintendent, Department of Psychiatry and Colorado Psychiatric Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, 1985 – 1999     

Chancellor, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, 1999 – 2006           

 

Honors:

Commissioned Officers Association of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), 1969 – 1973           

The Commendation Medal, USPHS, 1972                           

Special Award for Historic Achievement in Public Psychiatry, APA, 1993                           

Distinguished Service Award, Indian Health Service, 1996 

 

SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

1.    Shore JH, Kinzie J, Hampson J, Pattison E:  Psychiatric Epidemiology of an Indian Village.  Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 8:195-198, 1970.

2.    Shore JH, Bopp JF, Waller TR, Dawes JW:  Suicide Prevention Center on an Indian Reservation.  Amer J Psychiatry 118:1086-1091, 1972.

3.    Shore JH:  Suicide Patterns among Major Northwest Indian Tribes.  Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 9:67-69, 1972.

4.    Shore JH, VonFumetti B:  Three Alcohol Programs for American Indians, 642 Cases.  Amer J Psychiatry 128:1450-1454, 1972.

5.    Kinzie J, Shore JH, Pattison EM:  Anatomy of Psychiatric Consultation to Rural Indians.  Com MHJ 8:196-207, 1972.

6.    Shore JH: Suicide and Suicide Attempts among American Indians of the Pacific Northwest.  Inter J Soc Psychiatry 18:91-96, 1972.

7.    Shore JH, Kinzie J, Hampson J, Pattison EM:  Psychiatric Epidemiology of an Indian Village.  Psychiatry 36:70-81, 1973.

8.    Shore JH, Stone DL:  Duodenal Ulcer among Northwest Coastal Indian Women.  Amer J Psychiatry 130:774-777, 1973.

9.    Shore JH: Psychiatric Epidemiology among Native Americans.  Psychiatric Annals 4:45-66, 1974.

10.  Shore JH: American Indian Suicide – Fact and Fantasy.  Psychiatry 38:86-91, 1975.

11.  Wilson LG, Shore JH: Evaluation of a Regional Indian Alcohol Program.  Amer J Psychiatry 132:255-258, 1975.

12.  Shore JH, Nicholls WW: Indian Children and Tribal Group Homes: New Interpretations of the Whipper Man.  Amer J Psychiatry 32:454-456, 1975.  Also reprinted in Modern Indian Psychology: A Book of Readings.  Bulgatz M, Flagler A (Eds), E. Montana College, 1986.

13.  Shore JH: Non-traditional Therapies for American Indians.  White Cloud Center Newsletter 1:1-3, 1977.

14.  Shore JH: Destruction of Indian Families – Beyond the Best Interest of Indian Children.  White Cloud Journal of American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health Research 2:13-16, 1978.

15.  Borunda P, Shore JH: Neglected Minority – Urban Indians and Mental Health.  Inter J Soc Psychiatry 24:220-224, 1979.

16.  Pollack D, Shore JH: Validity of the MMPI with Native Americans.  Amer J Psychiatry 137:946-950, 1980.

17.  Manson SM, Shore JH (Eds): Special Issue on Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Among American Indians.  White Cloud Journal 2(2), 1981.

18.  Shore JH, Manson SM:  Cross-cultural Studies of Depression among American Indians and Alaska Natives.  White Cloud Journal 2:5-12, 1981.

19.  Manson SM, Shore JH: Psychiatric Epidemiological Research among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Some Methodological Issues.  White Cloud Journal 2:48-56, 1981.

20.  Shore JH, Manson SM: American Indian Psychiatric and Social Problems.  Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review 20:159-180, 1983.

21.  Shore JH, Manson SM, Bloom JD, Keepers G, Neligh G: A Pilot Study of Depression among American Indians with Research Diagnostic Criteria.  American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center 1(2):4-15, 1987.

22.  Shore JH: Transcultural Research Run Amok or Arctic Hysteria?  American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center 2(3):46-50, 1989.

23.  Kinzie JD, Shore JH, et al.: Psychiatric Epidemiology of an Indian Village: A 19-Year Replication Study.  J Nervous and Mental Disease 180:33-39, 1992.

24.  Leung PK, Kinzie JD, Boehnlein JK, Shore JH:  A Prospective Study of the Natural Course of Alcoholism in an Indian Village.  J of Studies on Alcohol 54:733-738, 1993.

25.  Novins D, Beals J, Shore JH, Manson S:  The Substance Abuse Treatment of American Indian Adolescents: Comorbid Symptomatology, Gender Differences, and Treatment Patterns.  J Amer Acad Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 35(12):1593-1601, 1996.

26.  Gurley D, Novins D, Jones MC, Beals J, Shore JH, Manson SM:  Comparative Use of Biomedical Services and Traditional Healing Options by American Indian Veterans.  Psychiatric Services 52(1):68-74, 2001.

27.  Beals J, Manson SM, Shore JH, Friedman M, Ashcraft M, Fairbank JA, Schlenger WE:  The Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder among American Indian Vietnam Veterans: Disparities and Context.  Journal of Traumatic Stress 15(2):89-97, 2002.