Lisa Dixon is a professor of psychiatry at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the Director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services and Policy Research within the Department of Psychiatry. Her research focuses on improving the quality of care for individuals diagnosed with serious mental illnesses. She directs the Center for Practice Innovations (CPI) at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, where she oversees the implementation of evidence-based practices for individuals with serious mental illnesses for the New York State Office of Mental Health. She leads OnTrackNY, a statewide treatment program for adolescents and young adults experiencing their first episode of psychosis. Dixon is also a professor of Psychiatry at the

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, where her primary research interests have focused on persons with severe mental illnesses who have co-morbid medical and substance use disorders,

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, and other vulnerabilities as well as on services to family members. Previously, she was the Director of the Division of Health Services Research within the Department of Psychiatry at Maryland and Director of Education and Residency Training at Maryland. In 2002, she joined the

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Capital Health Care Network and is currently the Director of Health Services Research and Education Resource Development. Dixon received her bachelor's degree in Economics from

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in 1980 and her medical degree from Weill Medical College of Cornell University in 1985. After completing her residency at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in 1989, she completed a research fellowship at the

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. She later earned a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Dixon has collaborated with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to establish the effectiveness of NAMI's Family to Family education program. In 2017, she became the editor-in-chief of

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, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association.

Areas of Expertise

Bipolar Disorder, Psychopharmacology, Mood Disorders, Obsessives Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Awards

She is a recipient of NAMI's Scientific Research Award, NAMI NYC Metro's Volunteer of the Year Award and NAMI-NYS's Dr. Lewis Opler Memorial Award acknowledging her dedicated support for the organization.https://www.nami.org/NAMI/media/NAMI-Media/NAMI%20Elections%20Info/2020%20Elections%20Stuff/03-Dixon-2020-Candidate_Nominator-Narratives.pdf

References

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