Investigators
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Ezra Susser, M.D., Dr.P.H. Member, HIV Center Strategic Planning Group Gelman Professor and Chair of Epidemiology & Professor of Psychiatry |
PUBLICATIONS
(Selected publications in chronological order)
Susser, E., Valencia, E., & Conover, S.: Prevalence of HIV infection among psychiatric patients in a New York City men's shelter. American Journal of Public Health, 83:568-570, 1993.
Colson, P., Susser, E., & Valencia, E.: HIV and TB among people who are homeless and mentally ill. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 17:157-160, 1994.
Jones, K., Colson, P., Valencia, E., & Susser, E.: A preliminary cost effectiveness analysis of an intervention to reduce homelessness among the mentally ill. Psychiatric Quarterly, 65:243-256, 1994.
Susser, E., Valencia, E., & Torres, J.: Sex, games, and videotapes: An HIV-prevention intervention for men who are homeless and mentally ill. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 17:31-40, 1994.
Susser, E., Valencia, E., Miller, M., Tsai, W.Y., Meyer-Bahlburg, H.F.L., & Conover, S.: Sexual behavior of homeless mentally ill men at risk for HIV. American Journal of Psychiatry, 152:583-587, 1995.
Saez, H., Valencia, E., Susser, E., & Conover, S.: HIV and TB prevalence among homeless men with mental illness [Letter to the editor]. American Journal of Public Health, 86:1318-1319, 1996.
Susser, E., Miller, M., Valencia, E., Colson, P., Roche, B., & Conover, S.: Injection drug use and risk of HIV transmission among homeless men with mental illness. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153:794-798, 1996.
Susser, E., Valencia, E., Sohler, N., Gheith, A., Conover, S., & Torres, J.: Interventions for homeless men and women with mental illness: Reducing sexual risk behaviors for HIV. International Journal of STD and AIDS, 7:66-70, 1996.
Susser, M., & Susser, E.: Choosing a future for epidemiology: Part I. Eras & paradigms. American Journal of Public Health, 86:668-673, 1996.
Susser, M., & Susser, E.: Choosing a future for epidemiology: Part II. From black box to chinese boxes and eco-epidemiology. American Journal of Public Health, 86:674-677, 1996.
McQuistion, H.L., Colson, P., Yankowitz, R., and Susser, E.: Tuberculosis infection among people with severe mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 48:833-835, 1997.
Collins, P.Y., Sohler, N.L., & Susser, E.S.: The potential of female-controlled methods of HIV prevention for women with mental illness. The Health Psychologist, 18:20-21, 1997.
Conover, S., Berkman, A., Gheith, A., Jahiel, R., Stanley, D., Geller, P.A., Valencia, E., & Susser, E.: Methods for successful follow-up of elusive urban populations: An ethnographic approach with homeless men. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 74:90-108, 1997.
Susser, E., Bethne, P., Valencia, E., Goldfinger, S., & Lehman, A.: Injection drug use among homeless adults with severe mental illness. American Journal of Public Health, 87:854-856, 1997.
Susser, E., Colson, P., Jandorf, L., Berkman, A., Lavelle, J., Fennig, S., Waniek, C., & Bromet, E.: HIV infection among young adults with psychotic disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154:864-866, 1997.
Susser, E., Valencia, E., Conover, S., Felix, A., Tsai, W.-Y., & Wyatt, R.J.: Preventing recurrent homelessness among mentally ill men: A "critical time" intervention after discharge from a shelter. American Journal of Public Health, 87:256-262, 1997.
Hoek, H.W., Brown, A.B., Susser, E.: The Dutch famine and schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 33:373-379, 1998.
Susser, E., Brown, A.S., Klonowski, E., Allen, R.H., Lindenbaum, J.: Schizophrenia and impaired homocysteine metabolism: A possible association. Biological Psychiatry, 44:141-143, 1998.
Susser, E., Desvarieux, M., & Wittkowski, K.: Reporting sexual risk behavior for HIV: A practical risk index, and a method for improving risk indices. American Journal of Public Health, 88:671-674, 1998.
Susser, E., Hoek, H.W., Brown, A.S.: Neurodevelopmental disorders after prenatal famine: the story of the Dutch Famine Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 147:213-216, 1998.
Susser, E., Matte, T.: Early antecedents of adult health. Journal of Urban Health Bulletin, 75:240-245, 1998.
Susser, E., Valencia, E., Berkman, A., Sohler, N., Conover, S., Torres, J., Betne, P., Felix, A., & Miller, S.: Human Immunodeficiency Virus sexual risk reduction in among homeless men with mental illness. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55:266-272, 1998.
Wittkoski, K.M., Susser, E., & Dietz, K.: The protective effect of condoms and nonoxynol-9 against HIV infection. American Journal of Public Health, 88:590-596, 1998.
Brown, A., van Os, J., Driessens, C., Hoek, H.W., Susser, E.: Prenatal famine and the spectrum of psychosis. Psychiatric Annals 29:145-150, 1999.
Pilowsky, D.J., Sohler, N., and Susser, E.: The parent disclosure interview. AIDS Care, 11(4):447-452, 1999.
Neugebauer, R., Hoek, H.W., Susser, E.: Prenatal exposure to wartime famine and development of antisocial disorder in early adulthood. Journal of American Medical Association, 282:455-462, 1999.
Schwartz, S., Susser, E., & Susser, M.: A future for epidemiology? Annual Reviews of Public Health, 20:15-33, 1999.
Susser, E., Brown, A.S., and Gorman, J.M. (Eds.). Prenatal Exposures in Schizophrenia. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Press, 1999.
Selten, J.P., Brown, A.S., Moons, K.G.M., Slaets, J.P.J., Susser, E.S., Kahn, R.S.: Prenatal exposure to the 1957 influenza pandemic and non-affective psychosis in the Netherlands. Schizophrenia Research 38:85-91, 1999.
Susser, E.: Life course cohort studies of schizophrenia. Psychiatric Annals. 29:161-165, 1999.
Susser, E., Matte, T., Brown, A.: Prenatal factors and adult mental and physical health. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 44:326-334, 1999.
Herman, D., Opler, L., Felix, A., Valencia, E., Wyatt, R.J., & Susser, E.: A critical time intervention with mentally ill homeless men: Impact on psychiatric symptoms. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 188:135-140, 2000.
Pilowsky, D.J., Sohler, N., & Susser, E.: Reasons given for disclosure of maternal HIV status to children. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 77:723-724, 2000.
Sohler, N., Colson, P., Meyer-Bahlberg, H.F.L., & Susser, E.: Reliability of self-reports about sexual risk behavior for HIV among homeless men with severe mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 51:814-816, 2000.
Terry, M.B., Neugut, A.I., Schwartz, S., & Susser, E.: Risk factors for a causal intermediate and an endpoint: Reconciling differences. American Journal of Epidemiology, 151:339-345, 2000.
Collins, P.Y., Geller, P.A., Miller, S., Toro, P., & Susser E.: Ourselves, our bodies, our realities: An HIV preventive intervention for women with mental illness. Journal of Urban Health, 78:162-175, 2001.
Murray, R.M., Jones, P.B., Susser, E., van Os, J., and Cannon, M. (Eds.). Epidemiology of Schizophrenia. Cambridge, MA: University Press, 2002.
Jones, K., Colson, P., Holter, M., Lin, S., Valencia, E., Susser, E., & Wyatt, R.: Cost-effectiveness of the Critical time intervention to reduce homelessness among persons with mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 54:884-890, 2003.
Myer, L., Morroni, C., & Susser, E.: Commentary: The social pathology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. International Journal of Epidemiology, 32:189-92, 2003.
Myer, L., Ehrlich, R., & Susser, E.: Social epidemiology in South Africa. Epidemiologic Reviews, 26:112-123, 2004.
Myer, L., Morroni, C., & Susser, E.: Commentary: The social pathology of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. International Journal of Epidemiology, 32:189-192, 2003.
Pilowsky, D.J., Zybert, P.A., Hsieh, P.W., Vlahov, D., & Susser, E.: Children of HIV-positive drug-using parents. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 42:950-956, 2003.
Berkman, A., Pilowsky, D.J., Zybert, P.A., Leu, C.-S., Sohler, N., & Susser, E.: The impact of substance dependence on HIV sexual risk-reduction among men with severe mental illness. AIDS Care, 17:635-639, 2005.
Carballo-Diéguez, A., & Susser, E.: Commentary: Sex trade involvement and rates of HIV-positivity among young gay and bisexual men. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30:1455-1456, 2001.
Susser E, Bresnahan M: Origins of epidemiology. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 954:6-18, 2001.
Susser E, Terry MB: A conception-to-death cohort. Lancet 361: 797-798, 2003.
Susser E: Eco-epidemiology: Thinking outside the black box. Epidemiology 15:519-520, 2004.
Malaspina, D., Reichenberg, A., Weiser, M., Fennig, S., Davidson, M., Harlap, S., Wolitzky, R., Rabinowitz, J., Susser, E., and Knobler, H.Y.: Paternal age and intelligence: implications for age-related genomic changes in male germ cells. Psychiatric Genetics, 15:117-125, 2005.
Mojtabai, R., Herman, D., Susser, E., Sohler, N., Craig, T., Lavelle, J., and Bromet, E.: Service use and outcomes of first-admission patients with psychotic disorders in the Suffolk County Mental Health Project. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162:1291-1298, 2005.
Berkman, A., Pilowsky, D.J., Zybert, P.A., Leu. S.C., Sohler, N., and Susser, E.: The impact of substance dependence on HIV sexual risk-reduction among men with severe mental illness. AIDS Care, 17(5):635-639, 2005.
Brown, A.S., and Susser, E.: Homocysteine and Schizophrenia: From prenatal to adult life. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacololgy & Biological Psychiatry, 29:1175-1180, 2005.
Berkman, A., Cerwonka, E.R., Sohler, N.,and Susser, E.: A randomized trial of a brief HIV risk reduction intervention for men with severe mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 57:407-409, 2006.
McClellan, J., Susser, E., and King, M.C.: Maternal famine, de novo mutations and schizophrenia, Journal of the American Medical Association, 296:582-584, 2006.
Reichenberg, A., Gross, R., Weiser, M., Bresnahan, M., Silverman, J.M., Harlap, S., Rabinowitz, J., Shulman, C., Malespina, D., Lubin, G., Knobler, H.Y., Davidson, M., and Susser, E.: Advancing paternal age and autism. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63:1026-1032, 2006.
Lamb, M., Taylor, S., Liu, X., Wolff, M., Borrell, L., Matte, D., Susser, E., and Factor-Litvak, P.: Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and postnatal growth: a structural analysis. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114(5):779-85, 2006.
March, D., and Susser, E.: Taking the search for causes to a different level: schizophrenia and eco-epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology, 163:979-981, 2006.
Schwartz, S., and Susser, E.: What can epidemiology accomplish? International Journal of Epidemiology, 35:587-590, 2006.
Herman, D.B., Brown, A.S, Opler, M.G., Desai, M., Malespina, D., Bresnahan, M., Schaefer, C.A., and Susser E.: Does unwantedness of pregnancy predict schizophrenia in the offspring? Findings from a prospective birth cohort study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatric Epidemiol, 41(8):605-10, 2006.
Herrell, R., Henteri, I.D., Mojtabai, R., Bartko, J.J., Venabel, D., Sussser, E., Merikangas, K.R., and Wyatt, R.J.: First psychiatric hospitalizations in the US military: the National Collaborative Study of Early Psychosis and Suicide (NCSEPS). Psychological Medicine, 36:1405-1415, 2006.
Susser, E., Schwartz, S., Morabia, A., and Bromet, E.: Psychiatric Epidemiology: Searching for the Causes of Mental Disorders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Pilowsky, D.J., Berkman, A., Leu, C.-S., Sohler, N. & Susser, E. (in press). High risk sexual behaviors in dually diagnosed and severely mentally ill homeless men. AIDS Care.
Member, HIV Center Strategic Planning Group
Gelman Professor and Chair of Epidemiology & Professor of Psychiatry
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