Program in Child Affective
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Dr. Alfiee M. Breland-Noble is a tenure track assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Duke University Medical Center. She completed a fellowship in the PREMIER program (psychiatry.mc.duke.edu/premier) and at the Duke Clinical Research Institute in 2005. Currently, she is the principal investigator of the AAKOMA project; a study examining readiness to engage in treatment for African-American adolescents with major depression. This study is part of a multi-phase project that began with no-funding, progressed to small awards and is currently funded via a five-year K01 career development award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In the study, Dr. Breland-Noble will (1) identify factors associated with psychiatric treatment engagement and (2) develop an intervention to increase psychiatric treatment engagement. Previously, she completed her residency training (1997) at Duke University and a post-doctoral research training program in health services research (2002) at the Duke University School of Medicine. Prior to coming to Duke in 2002, Dr. Breland-Noble was an assistant professor of counseling and counseling psychology at Michigan State University. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997, a Masters in Counseling from New York University in 1993 and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Howard University in 1991. Dr. Breland-Noble is currently completing a masters thesis for a Masters degree in Health Sciences (clinical trials focus) at the Duke School of Medicine. Her broad research interests include improving treatment engagement for psychiatric illness in African American and other children of color (using community based participatory research) and the diagnosis and treatment of adolescent depression in state-of-the art clinical trials. During her NRSA fellowships, Dr. Breland-Noble completed three published manuscripts based on research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to examine cultural variables related to psychiatric illness in children and adolescents. Dr. Breland-Noble collaborates with CAPTN (the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Trials Network - www.captn.org) as the Director of Patient and Clinician Diversity. CAPTN is co-sponsored by the NIMH and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and her support for this work was provided via an NIMH diversity supplement. Dr. Breland-Noble also leads a diversity outreach team (with colleagues Joy King and Tammeka Swinson) charged with improving treatment engagement by children of color for the Program in Child Affective and Anxiety Disorders (PCAAD - www.pcaad.org) clinical trials. To this end, she is conducting a study of race as a moderator for psychiatric treatment engagement in the TADS study and in CAPTN. Dr. Breland-Noble has a number of book chapters and peer reviewed manuscripts
to her credit including publications in Psychiatric Services, Psychiatric
Annals, the Journal of Child and Family Studies, the Journal
of Multicultural Counseling and Development, the Family Process
Journal and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Dr. Breland-Noble
also consults with a number of private and public institutions on issues
of diversity in mental health clinical care and research. |
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