STEVEN ADELSHEIM, M.D.

Department of
Psychiatry


ASSOCIATE VICE CHAIR OF PSYCHIATRY PARTNERSHIPS FOR
EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
DIRECTOR, UNM PSYCHIATRY CENTER FOR RURAL AND COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/crcbh/

Co-Chair, Schools Committee (2003-present), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Previous President (2007-2008), New Mexico Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.


Areas of specialization: suicide prevention, school mental health, Native American mental health support, telepsychiatry, behavioral health-primary care interface, rural behavioral health, state-university collaboration, mental health anti-stigma program development 
 

Recent honors:

2006 Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention, American Psychiatric Association

2005 Irving Phillips Award for Prevention, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

2004 Best Psychiatrists in America

2003 Juanita Evans Memorial Award for School Mental Health, National Center for School

Mental Health Assistance
2002 - 2003 Best Doctors in America, Best Doctors, Inc

 

Updated recent articles:

1.       Weist MD, Rubin M, Moore E, Adelsheim S, Wrobel G. Mental health screening in schools. J Sch Health. 2007; 77: 53-58.

2.       Willging, Tremaine,. Hough, Reichman, Adelsheim, Meador, and. Downes, “State Mental Health Policy: "We Never Used to Do Things This Way": Behavioral Health Care Reform in New Mexico; Psychiatr Serv, Dec 2007; 58: 1529 - 1531.

3.       Cunningham, Stephan, Paternite, Schan, Weist, Adelsheim, and Flaspohler; Stakeholders' Perspectives on the Recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; Psychiatr Serv, Oct 2007; 58: 1344 - 1347.

4.       Stephan, Weist, Kataoka, Adelsheim, and Mills, “Transformation of Children's Mental Health Services: The Role of School Mental Health”, Psychiatr Serv, Oct 2007; 58: 1330 - 1338.

5.       Cuellar A, Kelleher K, Kataoka S, Adelsheim S, Cocozza J;  Incarceration and Psychotropic Drug Use by Youth; Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008;162(3):219-224

 

Recent grants:

 

05-1-08 - Present                Project title: Early Intervention and Resources Linking Youth (EARLY)

Role: Principal Investigator

Funding organization: MIND Research Network, UNM Dept of Psychiatry, EDIPPP via Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Goal of Project: To evaluate the impact of the New Mexico behavioral health systems change on providers and adult consumers of behavioral health services.

 

04/1/04 - 08/31/05             Project title: Multimethod Ethnographic Assessment of Behavioral Health
Role: Co-Principal Investigator: Steven Adelsheim, M.D.

Funding organization: NIMH

Goal of Project: To evaluate the impact of the New Mexico behavioral health systems change on providers and adult consumers of behavioral health services.

 

07-1-03 - 06-30-07                Project title: Venturing Beyond Prevention

Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funding organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Initiatives Funding Partners, McCune Charitable Foundation, Daniels Fund, Anonymous Foundation

Goal of Project: To link a best practices model of substance abuse prevention with early mental health supports to Native American youth at both an urban and rural site in New Mexico.

 

04/1/04 - 08/31/05             Project title: Evaluating A Model for Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Rural New Mexico School-Based Health Centers

Role: Principal Investigator

Funding organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Depression and Primary Care Value Research Program

Goal of Project: To evaluate the effectiveness of an evidence based protocol for the recognition and treatment of depression in rural school based health centers that includes screening, diagnosis , treatment with training of primary care providers in best practices

 

02/01/02 -02/01/05               Project title: Caring for Kids

                                          Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Funding organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Goal of Project: To provide mental health and psychiatric services to students in a rural Native American school-based health center and to build the capacity of community service providers to meet the mental health needs of adolescents

 

E-Mail: sadelsheim@salud.unm.edu

 


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