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
Select Publications & Presentations:
Journal Articles
Lizardi, D. & Gearing, R.E. (in press). Religion and Suicide - Part II. Journal of Religion and Health.
Lizardi, D., Thompson, R., Keyes, K., & Hasin, D. (in press). 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. (in press). 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, Epub. February 15, 2009.
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.
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, Epub. July 10, 2008.
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, MF., Burke, A., Mann, JJ., & Oquendo, MA. (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. The relationship of past treatment for depression to current functioning Among Suicide attempters and non-attempters in the U.S. Paper to be presented at the 25th IASP World Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay, October, 2009.
Stanley, B.H. & Lizardi, D. (2009). 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.
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