Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2003 - 2005
  • M.P.H., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2004
  • Research Fellow in Psychiatry, Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 2002 - 2003
  • General Psychiatry Residency, Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1999 - 2002
  • M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1998
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2013 - 2015
  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Social and Community Psychiatry, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences 2005 - 2013
  • Instructor, Temporary in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Science Departments 2005
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Exemplary Psychiatrist Award. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). 2013
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Adult
  • Affective Disorders, Psychotic
  • Aged
  • Animals
  • Antidepressive Agents
  • Antipsychotic Agents
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Brain
  • Budgets
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Chronic Disease
  • Clozapine
  • Coercion
  • Comorbidity
  • Cooperative Behavior
  • Corticosterone
  • Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
  • Desoxycorticosterone
  • Dizocilpine Maleate
  • Double-Blind Method
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
  • Drug Resistance
  • Drug Synergism
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Female
  • Fluoxetine
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
  • Health Care Surveys
  • Health Services
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Health Services Research
  • Health Status
  • Hippocampus
  • Homeless Persons
  • Hospitals, Psychiatric
  • Hospitals, Veterans
  • Humans
  • Interviews as Topic
  • Learning
  • Male
  • Memory Disorders
  • Mental Disorders
  • Mental Health
  • Mental Health Services
  • Mentally Ill Persons
  • Middle Aged
  • Models, Psychological
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Neurotransmitter Agents
  • Nootropic Agents
  • North Carolina
  • Patient Care Management
  • Patient Education as Topic
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Personal Satisfaction
  • Personality Assessment
  • Pilot Projects
  • Piperazines
  • Placebos
  • Pregnanolone
  • Pregnenolone
  • Preventive Health Services
  • Professional-Patient Relations
  • Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychotic Disorders
  • Quality of Life
  • Quinolones
  • Radioimmunoassay
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Rehabilitation, Vocational
  • Risk Factors
  • Schizophrenia
  • Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Stimulation, Chemical
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Trust
  • United States
  • Up-Regulation
  • Veterans
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Van Voorhees, EE, Wagner, HR, Beckham, JC, Bradford, DW, Neal, LC, Penk, WE, & Elbogen, EB. (2018, May). Effects of social support and resilient coping on violent behavior in military veterans. Psychological Services , 15 (2), 181-190.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Cuddeback, G, & Elbogen, EB. (2017, December). Promoting mental health recovery and improving clinical assessment using video technology. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal , 40 (4), 412-414.  Full Text
    • Bromley, E, Mikesell, L, Whelan, F, Hellemann, G, Hunt, M, Cuddeback, G, Bradford, DW, & Young, AS. (2017, November). Clinical Factors Associated with Successful Discharge from Assertive Community Treatment. Community mental health journal , 53 (8), 916-921.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Goulet, J, Hunt, M, Cunningham, NC, & Hoff, R. (2016, December). A Cohort Study of Mortality in Individuals With and Without Schizophrenia After Diagnosis of Lung Cancer. The Journal of clinical psychiatry , 77 (12), e1626-e1630.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, & Cunningham, N. (2016, May). Psychotic disorders cause the greatest mortality disparity among mental disorders, though more deaths are attributable overall to mood and anxiety disorders. Evidence-based mental health , 19 (2), 58-.  Full Text
    • Naylor, JC, Kilts, JD, Bradford, DW, Strauss, JL, Capehart, BP, Szabo, ST, Smith, KD, Dunn, CE, Conner, KM, Davidson, JRT, Wagner, HR, Hamer, RM, & Marx, CE. (2015, May). A pilot randomized placebo-controlled trial of adjunctive aripiprazole for chronic PTSD in US military Veterans resistant to antidepressant treatment. International clinical psychopharmacology , 30 (3), 167-174.  Full Text
    • Youssef, NA, Bradford, DW, Kilts, JD, Szabo, ST, Naylor, JC, Allen, TB, Strauss, JL, Hamer, RM, Brancu, M, Shampine, LJ, & Marx, CE. (2015, January). Exploratory investigation of biomarker candidates for suicide in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Crisis , 36 (1), 46-54.  Full Text
    • Cunningham, NT, Dennis, N, Dattilo, W, Hunt, M, & Bradford, DW. (2014, November). Continuation of clozapine during chemotherapy: a case report and review of literature. Psychosomatics , 55 (6), 673-679. (Review)  Full Text
    • Gierisch, JM, Nieuwsma, JA, Bradford, DW, Wilder, CM, Mann-Wrobel, MC, McBroom, AJ, Hasselblad, V, & Williams, JW. (2014, May). Pharmacologic and behavioral interventions to improve cardiovascular risk factors in adults with serious mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of clinical psychiatry , 75 (5), e424-e440. (Review)  Full Text
    • Szabo, ST, Kilts, JD, Naylor, JC, Youssef, NA, Strauss, JL, Morey, RA, Brancu, M, Hamer, RM, Bradford, DW, VA Mid-Atlantic MIRECC Work Group, , & Marx, CE. (2014, May). Amino acids as biomarker candidates for suicidality in male OEF/OIF Veterans: relevance to NMDA receptor modulation and nitric oxide signaling. Military Medicine , 179 (5), 486-491.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Cunningham, NT, Slubicki, MN, McDuffie, JR, Kilbourne, AM, Nagi, A, & Jr, WJW. (2013, August). An Evidence Synthesis of Care Models to Improve General Medical Outcomes for Individuals With Serious Mental Illness: A Systematic Review. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY , 74 (8), E754-E764.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Strauss, JL, Zervakis, JB, Stechuchak, KM, Olsen, MK, Swanson, J, Swartz, MS, Weinberger, M, Marx, CE, Calhoun, PS, Bradford, DW, Butterfield, MI, & Oddone, EZ. (2013, August). Adverse impact of coercive treatments on psychiatric inpatients' satisfaction with care. Community Mental Health Journal , 49 (4), 457-465.  Full Text
    • Naylor, JC, Dolber, TR, Strauss, JL, Kilts, JD, Strauman, TJ, Bradford, DW, Szabo, ST, Youssef, NA, Connor, KM, Davidson, JRT, & Marx, CE. (2013, April 30). A pilot randomized controlled trial with paroxetine for subthreshold PTSD in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom era veterans. Psychiatry Res , 206 (2-3), 318-320.  Full Text  Open Access Copy  Link to Item
    • Elbogen, EB, Bradford, DW, & Swartz, MS. (2013, January). A recovery-oriented money management intervention. Psychiatr Serv , 64 (1), 99-.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Naylor, JC, Dolber, TR, Strauss, JL, Kilts, JD, Strauman, TJ, Bradford, DW, Szabo, ST, Youssef, NA, Connor, KM, Davidson, JRT, & Marx, CE. (2013). A pilot randomized controlled trial with paroxetine for subthreshold PTSD in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom era veterans. Psychiatry research , 206 (2-3), 318-320.  Full Text
    • Naylor, JC, Dolber, TR, Strauss, JL, Kilts, JD, Strauman, TJ, Bradford, DW, Szabo, ST, Youssef, NA, Connor, KM, Davidson, JRT, & Marx, CE. (2013, January 1). A pilot randomized controlled trial with paroxetine for subthreshold PTSD in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom era veterans. Psychiatry Research , 206 (2-3), 318-320.
    • Strauss, JL, Zervakis, JB, Stechuchak, KM, Olsen, MK, Swanson, J, Swartz, MS, Weinberger, M, Marx, CE, Calhoun, PS, Bradford, DW, Butterfield, MI, & Oddone, EZ. (2013). Adverse impact of coercive treatments on psychiatric inpatients' satisfaction with care. Community Mental Health Journal , 49 (4), 457-465.  Full Text
    • Youssef, NA, Marx, CE, Bradford, DW, Zinn, S, Hertzberg, MA, Kilts, JD, Naylor, JC, Butterfield, MI, & Strauss, JL. (2012, July). An open-label pilot study of aripiprazole for male and female veterans with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder who respond suboptimally to antidepressants. Int Clin Psychopharmacol , 27 (4), 191-196.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Resnik, L, Bradford, DW, Glynn, SM, Jette, AM, Johnson Hernandez, C, & Wills, S. (2012, January). Issues in defining and measuring veteran community reintegration: proceedings of the Working Group on Community Reintegration, VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Conference, Miami, Florida. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development , 49 (1), 87-100.
    • Tiegreen, JA, Braxton, LE, Elbogen, EB, & Bradford, D. (2012, January). Building a bridge of trust: collaborative assessment with a person with serious mental illness. Journal of Personality Assessment , 94 (5), 513-521.  Full Text
    • Marx, CE, Bradford, DW, Hamer, RM, Naylor, JC, Allen, TB, Lieberman, JA, Strauss, JL, & Kilts, JD. (2011, September 15). Pregnenolone as a novel therapeutic candidate in schizophrenia: emerging preclinical and clinical evidence. Neuroscience , 191 , 78-90. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Elbogen, EB, Tiegreen, J, Vaughan, C, & Bradford, DW. (2011, January). Money management, mental health, and psychiatric disability: a recovery-oriented model for improving financial skills. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal , 34 (3), 223-231. (Review)  Full Text
    • Kim, MM, Ford, JD, Howard, DL, & Bradford, DW. (2010, February). Assessing trauma, substance abuse, and mental health in a sample of homeless men. Health & Social Work , 35 (1), 39-48.  Full Text
    • Marx, CE, Keefe, RSE, Buchanan, RW, Hamer, RM, Kilts, JD, Bradford, DW, Strauss, JL, Naylor, JC, Payne, VM, Lieberman, JA, Savitz, AJ, Leimone, LA, Dunn, L, Porcu, P, Morrow, AL, & Shampine, LJ. (2009, July). Proof-of-concept trial with the neurosteroid pregnenolone targeting cognitive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology , 34 (8), 1885-1903.  Full Text
    • Reuland, DS, Cherrington, A, Watkins, GS, Bradford, DW, Blanco, RA, & Gaynes, BN. (2009). Diagnostic accuracy of Spanish language depression-screening instruments. Annals of Family Medicine , 7 (5), 455-462.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Kim, MM, Braxton, LE, Marx, CE, Butterfield, M, & Elbogen, EB. (2008, August). Access to medical care among persons with psychotic and major affective disorders. Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) , 59 (8), 847-852.  Full Text
    • Kim, MM, Swanson, JW, Swartz, MS, Bradford, DW, Mustillo, SA, & Elbogen, EB. (2007, July). Healthcare barriers among severely mentally ill homeless adults: evidence from the five-site health and risk study. Adm Policy Ment Health , 34 (4), 363-375.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Marx, CE, Shampine, LJ, Duncan, GE, VanDoren, MJ, Grobin, AC, Massing, MW, Madison, RD, Bradford, DW, Butterfield, MI, Lieberman, JA, & Morrow, AL. (2006, August). Clozapine markedly elevates pregnenolone in rat hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and serum: candidate mechanism for superior efficacy?. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior , 84 (4), 598-608.  Full Text
    • Marx, CE, Shampine, LJ, Khisti, RT, Trost, WT, Bradford, DW, Grobin, AC, Massing, MW, Madison, RD, Butterfield, MI, Lieberman, JA, & Morrow, AL. (2006, August). Olanzapine and fluoxetine administration and coadministration increase rat hippocampal pregnenolone, allopregnanolone and peripheral deoxycorticosterone: implications for therapeutic actions. Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior , 84 (4), 609-617.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Gaynes, BN, Kim, MM, Kaufman, JS, & Weinberger, M. (2005, August). Can shelter-based interventions improve treatment engagement in homeless individuals with psychiatric and/or substance misuse disorders?: a randomized controlled trial. Medical Care , 43 (8), 763-768.  Full Text
    • Chakos, MH, Schobel, SA, Gu, H, Gerig, G, Bradford, D, Charles, C, & Lieberman, JA. (2005). Duration of illness and treatment effects on hippocampal volume in male patients with schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry , 186 (JAN.), 26-31.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Stroup, TS, & Socio, GVLD. (2004). Schizophrenia, Drug Therapy, and Monitoring [3] (multiple letters). New England Journal of Medicine , 350 (4), 415-416.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Perkins, DO, & Lieberman, JA. (2003). Pharmacological Management of First-Episode Schizophrenia and Related Nonaffective Psychoses. Drugs , 63 (21), 2265-2283.  Full Text
    • Chakos, M, Lieberman, J, Hoffman, E, Bradford, D, & Sheitman, B. (2001, April). Effectiveness of second-generation antipsychotics in patients with treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis of randomized trials. The American Journal of Psychiatry , 158 (4), 518-526.  Full Text
    • Bradford, DW, Chakos, MH, Sheitman, BB, & Lieberman, JA. (1998, November 1). Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs in Treatment-Refractory Schizophrenia. Psychiatric Annals , 28 (11), 618-626.  Full Text

  • Book Sections

    • Farkas, M, Forbess, R, & Bradford, DW. (2013, March 21). Recovery Facilitating Service Planning: An Interdisciplinary Responsibility. In K Yeager, D Cutler, D Svendsen & G Sills (Eds.), Modern Community Mental Health An Interdisciplinary Approach Oxford University Press. (Chapter)

  • Conference Papers

    • Marx, CE, Keefe, RS, Leimone, LA, Hamer, RM, Bradford, DW, Dunn, L, Payne, VM, Naylor, JC, Savitz, AJ, Strauss, JL, Lieberman, JA, & Shampine, LJ. (2007, April 15). Proof-of-concept trial with the neurosterold pregnenolone targeting neurocognitive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia.  Link to Item
    • Bradford, DW, Shampine, LJ, Harris, VP, Naylor, JC, Massing, MW, Lieberman, JA, Morrow, AL, & Marx, CE. (2007, March). Pregnenolone reductions in parietal cortex are associated with suicide in patients with schizophrenia.  Link to Item
    • Marx, CE, Shampine, LJ, Duncan, GE, VanDoren, MJ, Grobin, AC, Massing, MW, Madison, RD, Bradford, DW, Butterfield, MI, Lieberman, JA, & Morrow, AL. (2007, March). Clozapine increases the neurosteroid pregnenolone in rat hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and serum: Relevance to superior efficacy?.  Link to Item
    • Bradford, DW, Shampine, LJ, Harris, VP, Naylor, JC, Massing, MW, Lieberman, JA, Morrow, AL, & Marx, CE. (2006, December). Pregnenolone alterations in parietat cortex are associated with death by suicide in patients with schizophrenia.  Link to Item
    • Marx, CE, Shampine, LJ, Duncan, GE, VanDoren, MJ, Grobin, AC, Massing, MW, Madison, RD, Bradford, DW, Butterfield, MI, Lieberman, JA, & Morrow, AL. (2006, December). Clozapine markedly elevates pregnenolone in rat hippocampus, cerebral cortex, and serum: Candidate mechanism for superior efficacy?.  Link to Item

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