Dana Lizardi
Assistant Professor of Social Work
E-mail: dl2298@columbia.edu
Telephone: (212) 851-2254
Office: Room 706
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Bio:
Dr. Dana Lizardi was a National Institute of Mental Health Research Fellow. She has comprehensive practice experience in the areas of child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, and crisis-intervention. She spent many years as a bilingual clinician in an inpatient psychiatry unit, a psychiatric emergency room, an adult ambulatory psychiatry department, and a child and adolescent psychiatry clinic. She has worked primarily with Latino clients.
Research Interests:
- Suicide attempt
- Protective factors
- Hispanics and mental health
- Ataques de Nervios
- Race, ethnicity and culture in mental health research
- Treatment engagement and adherence of suicide attempters
Current Grants & Projects:
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD): “Enhancing Treatment Engagement of Suicide Attempters”
- American Foundation of Suicide Prevention (AFSP): “Enhancing Treatment Engagement of Suicidal Individuals”
- Community Engagement resource, Irving Institute, Columbia University (CER): “Offspring of Mothers with Schizophrenia and the Community: A Pilot Study
Recent Publications & Presentations:
Journal Articles
Gearing, R.E. & Lizardi, D. (in press). Religion and Suicide. Journal of Religion and Health.
Thompson, R.G., Lizardi, D., Keyes, K. & Hasin, D. (in press). Childhood parental divorce, parental history of alcohol problems, and offspring lifetime alcohol dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Richardson-Vejlgaard, R., Sher, L., Oquendo, M.A., Lizardi, D., & Stanley, B. (in press). The Acceptability of Suicide among Mood Disordered Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
Sher, L., Stanley, B.H., Harkavy-Friedman, J.M., Carballo, J.J., Arendt, M., Brent, D.A., Sperling, D., Lizardi D., Mann, J.J., & Oquendo, M.A. (2008). Depressed Patients With Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders: A Unique Patient Population. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 69(6), 907-915.
Lizardi, D., Oquendo, M.A., Graver, R. (in press) Clinical Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Ataque de Nervios. Transcultural Psychiatry.
Lizardi, D., Dervic, K., Grunebaum, M.F., Burke, A., Mann, J.J., & Oquendo, M.A. The Role of Moral Objections to Suicide in the Assessment of Suicidal Patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42(10), 815-21.
Lizardi, D., Currier, D., Galfalvy, H., Sher, L., Burke, A., & Mann, J. (2007). Perceived Reasons for Living at Index Hospitalization and Future Suicide Attempt. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195(5), 451-455.
Presentations
Lizardi, D. (2008). Predictors of Outpatient Treatment Non-Participation among DepressedIndividuals, Symposium presented at The Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). Washington, D. C..
Lizardi, D., Harkavy-Friedman, J., Stanley, B.H., Sher, L., Grunebaum, M.F., Burke, A.K., Oquendo, M.A. (2008). Does suicide attempt status predict treatment utilization following a major depressive episode? Poster presentation at the 12th European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour. Glasgow, Scotland
Last updated August 18, 2008. |
