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"

Selected Publications & Presentations:

Journal Articles
Lizardi, D., Oquendo, M. A., & Graver, R. (2009). Clinical pitfalls in the diagnosis of ataque de nervios: A Case study. Transcultural Psychiatry, 46(3), 463-468.

Lizardi, D., & Gearing, R. E. (2009). Religion and suicide - part II. Journal of Religion and Health.

Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., Keyes, K., & Hasin, D. (2009). Parental divorce, parental depression, and gender differences in adult suicide attempt in offspring. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., & Hasin, D. (2009). The effect of parental remarriage following parental divorce on offspring suicide attempt. Families in Society.

Richardson-Vejlgaard, R., Sher, L., Oquendo, M. A., Lizardi, D., & Stanley, B. H. (2009). Objections to suicide among mood disordered patients with alcohol use disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 117(3), 197-201

Lizardi, D., Sher, L., Sullivan, G., Stanley, B., Burke, A., & Oquendo, M. (2009). Family history of suicide attempts and severity of suicide attempt. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 119(5), 406-410.

Richardson-Vejlgaard, R., Sher, L., Oquendo, M. A., Lizardi, D., & Stanley, B. (2008). The acceptability of suicide among mood disordered Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 43(4), 360-365.

Thompson, R. G., Lizardi, D., Keyes, K., & Hasin, D. (2008). Childhood parental divorce, parental history of alcohol problems, and offspring lifetime alcohol dependence. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 98(3), 264-269.

Gearing, R. E., & Lizardi, D. (2008). Religion and suicide. Journal of Religion and Health.

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. J Clin Psychiatry, 69(6), 907-915.

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.

Lizardi, D., Dervic, K., Grunebaum, M. F., Burke, A., Mann, J. J., & Oquendo, M. A. (2007). The role of moral objections to suicide in the assessment of suicidal patients. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 42(10), 815-21.

Oquendo, M. A., Lizardi, D., Greenwald, S., Weissman, M., & Mann, J. (2004). Rates of lifetime suicide attempt relative to rates of lifetime major depression in different ethnic groups in the United States. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 110, 446-451.

Presentations
Lizardi, D., & Thompson, R. (2009, October). The relationship of past treatment for depression to current functioning among Suicide attempters and non-attempters in the U.S. Paper presented at the 25th IASP World Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay.     

Stanley, B. H., & Lizardi, D. (2009). Enhancing treatment engagement of suicidal individuals in ED settings. Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the American Assoication of Suicidology, San Francisco, CA.

Thompson, R., Lizardi, D., & Hasin, D. (2009). Offspring lifetime alcohol dependence: The influence of maternal and paternal histories of alcohol problems and childhood parental divorce/separation. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Conference, San Diego, CA.

Lizardi, D. (2008). Predictors of outpatient treatment non-participation among depressed individuals. 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 July 05, 2011.