Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • NRSA T32 Mental Health Services and Systems Research Training Program, Psychiatry And Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine 2009 - 2012
  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
  • M.P.H., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 2002
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2012 - 2014
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin awarded by  New Venture Fund 2018 - 2021
  • Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Gun Sales: Comparative effectiveness of different minimum age standards for firearm purchase by adults with youthful crime records in North Carolina, Florida, and Virgin awarded by Joyce Foundation 2018 - 2021
  • A feasibility study for testing the effects of extended-release naltrexone (Vivitrol) on recidivism and other participant outcomes in drug court settings awarded by Laura and John Arnold Foundation 2016 - 2019
  • Implementation and Effectiveness of "Dangerous Persons" Gun-Seizure Laws in Connecticut and Indiana awarded by  New Venture Fund 2014 - 2018
  • Policy and interventions for adults with SMI and criminal justice involvement awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2018
  • Gender differences in jail diversion for adults with co-occurring disorders awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2017
  • Implementing Psychiatric Advance Directives with Peer Specialist Facilitators awarded by Department of Education 2012 - 2016
  • Do brief incarcerations before jail diversion enhance its legal leverage and improve outcomes among people with serious awarded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2011 - 2013
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Swanson, JW, Easter, MM, Alanis-Hirsch, K, Belden, CM, Norko, MA, Robertson, AG, Frisman, LK, Lin, H-J, Swartz, MS, and Parker, GF. "Criminal Justice and Suicide Outcomes with Indiana's Risk-Based Gun Seizure Law." The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (April 15, 2019).  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Easter, MM, Lin, H, Frisman, LK, Swanson, JW, and Swartz, MS. "Medication-Assisted Treatment for Alcohol-Dependent Adults With Serious Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Involvement: Effects on Treatment Utilization and Outcomes." The American Journal of Psychiatry 175, no. 7 (July 2018): 665-673.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Easter, MM, Lin, H-J, Frisman, LK, Swanson, JW, and Swartz, MS. "Associations between pharmacotherapy for opioid dependence and clinical and criminal justice outcomes among adults with co-occurring serious mental illness." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 86 (March 2018): 17-25.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, and Swartz, MS. "Extended-release naltrexone and drug treatment courts: Policy and evidence for implementing an evidence-based treatment." Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 85 (February 2018): 101-104.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Easter, MM, Swanson, JW, Robertson, AG, Moser, LL, and Swartz, MS. "Facilitation of Psychiatric Advance Directives by Peers and Clinicians on Assertive Community Treatment Teams." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 68, no. 7 (July 2017): 717-723.  Full Text  Open Access Copy
    • Swartz, MS, Bhattacharya, S, Robertson, AG, and Swanson, JW. "Involuntary Outpatient Commitment and the Elusive Pursuit of Violence Prevention." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. Revue Canadienne De Psychiatrie 62, no. 2 (February 2017): 102-108. (Review)  Full Text
    • Swanson, JW, Norko, MA, Lin, HJ, Alanis-Hirsch, K, Frisman, LK, Baranoski, MV, Easter, MM, Robertson, AG, Swartz, MS, and Bonnie, RJ. "Implementation and effectiveness of connecticut's risk-based gun removal law: Does it prevent suicides?." Law and Contemporary Problems 80, no. 2 (January 1, 2017): 179-208.
    • Swanson, JW, Easter, MM, Robertson, AG, Swartz, MS, Alanis-Hirsch, K, Moseley, D, Dion, C, and Petrila, J. "Gun Violence, Mental Illness, And Laws That Prohibit Gun Possession: Evidence From Two Florida Counties." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35, no. 6 (June 2016): 1067-1075.  Full Text
    • Swartz, MS, and Robertson, AG. "Mental Health Courts: Does Treatment Make a Difference?." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 67, no. 4 (April 2016): 363-null.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Swanson, JW, Lin, H, Easter, MM, Frisman, LK, and Swartz, MS. "Influence of Criminal Justice Involvement and Psychiatric Diagnoses on Treatment Costs Among Adults With Serious Mental Illness." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 66, no. 9 (September 2015): 907-909.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG. "Building on the Evidence: Guiding Policy and Research on Police Encounters with Persons with Mental Illnesses." Criminology & public policy 14, no. 2 (May 2015): 285-293.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Swanson, JW, Van Dorn, RA, and Swartz, MS. "Treatment participation and medication adherence: effects on criminal justice costs of persons with mental illness." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 65, no. 10 (October 2014): 1189-1191.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Lin, H-J, Frisman, LK, Petrila, J, and Swartz, MS. "Mental health and reoffending outcomes of jail diversion participants with a brief incarceration after arraignment." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 65, no. 9 (September 2014): 1113-1119.  Full Text
    • Robertson, AG, Swanson, JW, Frisman, LK, Lin, H, and Swartz, MS. "Patterns of justice involvement among adults with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: key risk factors." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 65, no. 7 (July 2014): 931-938.  Full Text
    • Swanson, JW, Frisman, LK, Robertson, AG, Lin, H-J, Trestman, RL, Shelton, DA, Parr, K, Rodis, E, Buchanan, A, and Swartz, MS. "Costs of criminal justice involvement among persons with serious mental illness in connecticut." Psychiatr Serv 64, no. 7 (July 1, 2013): 630-637.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilbert, AR, Domino, ME, Morrissey, JP, and Gaynes, BN. "Differential service utilization associated with trauma-informed integrated treatment for women with co-occurring disorders." Adm Policy Ment Health 39, no. 6 (November 2012): 426-439.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Swanson, J, and Gilbert, AR. "Mental illness and firearm violence." JAMA 306, no. 9 (September 7, 2011): 930-931. (Letter)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilbert, AR, Morrissey, JP, and Domino, ME. "Service Utilization Patterns as Predictors of Response to Trauma-Informed Integrated Treatment for Women With Co-occurring Disorders." J Dual Diagn 7, no. 3 (July 2011): 117-129.  Link to Item
    • Wood, J, Swanson, JW, Burris, S, and Robertson, AG. "Monograph: 'Police Interventions with Persons Affected by Mental Illnesses'." (March 9, 2011).
    • Gilbert, AR, Moser, LL, Van Dorn, RA, Swanson, JW, Wilder, CM, Robbins, PC, Keator, KJ, Steadman, HJ, and Swartz, MS. "Reductions in arrest under assisted outpatient treatment in New York." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 61, no. 10 (October 2010): 996-999.  Full Text
    • Swanson, JW, Van Dorn, RA, Swartz, MS, Cislo, AM, Wilder, CM, Moser, LL, Gilbert, AR, and McGuire, TG. "Robbing Peter to pay Paul: did New York State's outpatient commitment program crowd out voluntary service recipients?." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 61, no. 10 (October 2010): 988-995.  Full Text
    • Swartz, MS, Wilder, CM, Swanson, JW, Van Dorn, RA, Robbins, PC, Steadman, HJ, Moser, LL, Gilbert, AR, and Monahan, J. "Assessing outcomes for consumers in New York's assisted outpatient treatment program." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 61, no. 10 (October 2010): 976-981.  Full Text
    • Van Dorn, RA, Swanson, JW, Swartz, MS, Wilder, CM, Moser, LL, Gilbert, AR, Cislo, AM, and Robbins, PC. "Continuing medication and hospitalization outcomes after assisted outpatient treatment in New York." Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) 61, no. 10 (October 2010): 982-987.  Full Text
    • Close, K, Rozier, RG, Zeldin, LP, and Gilbert, AR. "Barriers to the adoption and implementation of preventive dental services in primary medical care." Pediatrics 125, no. 3 (March 2010): 509-517.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Swanson, JW, Swartz, MS, Elbogen, EB, VAN Dorn, RA, Wagner, HR, Moser, LA, Wilder, C, and Gilbert, AR. "Psychiatric advance directives and reduction of coercive crisis interventions." Journal of Mental Health (Abingdon, England) 17, no. 3 (January 2008): 255-267.  Full Text
    • Cornuz, J, Gilbert, A, Pinget, C, McDonald, P, Slama, K, Salto, E, and Paccaud, F. "Cost-effectiveness of pharmacotherapies for nicotine dependence in primary care settings: a multinational comparison." Tob Control 15, no. 3 (June 2006): 152-159.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Gilbert, AR, Pinget, C, Bovet, P, Cornuz, J, Shamlaye, C, and Paccaud, F. "The cost effectiveness of pharmacological smoking cessation therapies in developing countries: a case study in the Seychelles." Tobacco Control 13, no. 2 (June 2004): 190-195.  Full Text
    • Cornuz, J, Pinget, C, Gilbert, A, and Paccaud, F. "Cost-effectiveness analysis of the first-line therapies for nicotine dependence." Eur J Clin Pharmacol 59, no. 3 (July 2003): 201-206.  Full Text  Link to Item

  • Book Sections

    • Swanson, JW, Robertson, AG, Frisman, LK, Norko, MA, Lin, HJ, Swartz, MS, and Cook, PJ. "Preventing gun violence involving people with serious mental illness." In Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis, 33-51. January 1, 2013.

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