laura.dunn@ucsf.edu
(415) 476-7518 (voice)
(415) 476-7320 (fax)

Box 0984, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0984

Harvard College, AB, 1988, Linguistics, magna cum laude
University of California, San Francisco, MD, 1997, Medicine
University of California, San Diego, 1997-2001, Internship and Residency in Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego, 2001-2002, Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry

Dunn LB, Jeste DV. Enhancing informed consent for research and treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology 2001;24:595-607.

Dunn LB, Lindamer LA, Palmer BW, Schneiderman LJ, Jeste DV. Enhancing comprehension of consent for research in older patients with psychosis: A randomized study of a novel consent procedure. Am J Psychiatry 2001;158:1911-1913.

Dolder CR, Lacro JP, Dunn LB, Jeste DV. Antipsychotic medication adherence: Is there a difference between typical and atypical agents? Am J Psychiatry 2002;159:103-8.

Dunn LB, Lindamer LA, Palmer BW, Golshan S, Schneiderman LJ, Jeste DV. Improving understanding of research consent in middle-aged and elderly patients with psychotic disorders. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002;10:142-150.

Saks ER, Dunn LB, Marshall BJ, Nayak GV, Golshan S, Jeste DV. The California Scale for Appreciation: A new instrument to measure the appreciation component of capacity to consent to research. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002;10:166-174.

Palmer BW, Nayak GV, Dunn LB, Appelbaum PS, Jeste DV. Treatment-related decision-making capacity in middle-aged and older patients with psychosis: A preliminary study using the MacCAT-T and HCAT. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2002;10:207-211.

Lacro JP, Dunn LB, Dolder CR, Leckband SG, Jeste DV. Prevalence of and risk factors for medication nonadherence in patients with schizophrenia: a comprehensive review of recent literature. J Clin Psychiatry 2002;63:892-909.

Dunn LB, Jeste DV. Problem areas in the understanding of informed consent for research: Study of middle-aged and older patients with psychotic disorders. Psychopharmacology 2003;171:81-85.

Jeste DV, Dunn LB, Palmer BW, Saks E, Halpain M, Cook A, Appelbaum P, Schneiderman L. A collaborative model for research on decisional capacity and informed consent in older patients with schizophrenia: Bioethics Unit of a Geriatric Psychiatry Intervention Research Center. Psychopharmacology 2003;171:68-74.

Roberts LW, Dunn LB. Ethical considerations in caring for women with substance use disorders. Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America 30:559-582, 2003.

Palmer BW, Dunn LB, Appelbaum PS, Jeste DV. Correlates of treatment-related decision-making capacity among middle-aged and older patients with schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2004;61:230-236.

Dunn LB, Roberts LW. Emerging findings in ethics of schizophrenia research. Curr Opin Psychiatry 2005;18:111-119.

Dunn LB, Gordon NE. How understanding economic behavior can help make research practices more ethical: Implications for improving informed consent and enhancing recruitment. JAMA 2005; 293:609-612.

Palmer BW, Dunn LB, Appelbaum PS, Mudaliar S, Thal L, Henry R, Golshan S, Jeste DV. Assessment of capacity to consent to research among older persons with schizophrenia, Alzheimer Disease or diabetes mellitus: comparison of a three-item questionnaire with a comprehensive standardized capacity instrument. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2005;62:726-733.

Roberts LW, Dunn LB, Hammond KAG, Warner TD. Do research procedures pose relatively greater risk for healthy persons than for persons with schizophrenia? Schizophr Bull 2006;32:153-158.

Saks ER, Dunn LB, Palmer BW. Meta-consent in research on decisional capacity: A ÒCatch-22Ó? Schizophr Bull 2006;32:42-46.

Dunn LB, Candilis PJ, Roberts LW. Emerging empirical evidence on the ethics of schizophrenia research. Schizophr Bull 2006;32:47-68.

Dunn LB, Palmer BW, Keehan M. Understanding of placebo controls among older people with schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2006;32:137-146.

Haroun N, Dunn LB, Haroun A, Cadenhead KC. Risk and protection in prodromal schizophrenia: Ethical implications for clinical practice and future research. Schizophr Bull 2006;32:166-178.

Dunn LB, Palmer BW, Keehan M, Jeste DV, Appelbaum, P.S. Assessment of therapeutic misconception in older schizophrenia patients using a brief instrument. Am J Psychiatry 2006;163:500-506.

Dunn LB, Nowrangi MA, Palmer BW, Jeste DV, Saks ER. Assessing decisional capacity for clinical research or treatment: A review of instruments. Am J Psychiatry 2006;163:1323-1334.

Roberts LW, Warner TD, Hammond KG, Dunn LB. Assessments by patients with schizophrenia and psychiatrists of relative risk of research procedures. Psychiatr Serv 2006;57:1629-35.

Dunn LB, Palmer BW, Appelbaum PS, Saks ER, Aarons GA, Jeste DV. Prevalence and correlates of adequate performance on a measure of abilities related to decisional capacity: Differences among three standards for the MacCAT-CR in patients with schizophrenia. Schizophr Res 2007;89:110-8.

Palmer BW, Dunn LB, Depp C, Eyler LT, Jeste DV. Decisional capacity to consent to research among patients with bipolar disorder: Comparison with schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects. J Clin Psychiatry 2007; 68:689-696.

Jeste DV, Dunn LB, Folsom DP, Zisook D. Multimedia educational aids for improving consumer knowledge about illness management and treatment decisions: A review of randomized controlled trials. J Psychiatric Res 2008;42:1-21.

Roberts LW, Warner TD, Dunn LB, Brody JL, Hammond KAG, Roberts BB. Shaping medical studentsÕ attitudes toward ethically important aspects of clinical research: Results of a randomized, controlled educational intervention. Ethics Behav 2007:17-19-50.

Mittal D, Palmer BW, Dunn LB, Landes R, Ghormley C, Beck C, Golshan S, Blevins D, Jeste DV. Comparison of two enhanced consent procedures for patients with mild Alzheimer disease or mild cognitive impairment. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2007;15:163-167.

Jeste DV, Palmer BW, Appelbaum PS, Golshan S, Glorioso D, Dunn LB, Kim K, Meeks T, Kraemer HC. A new brief instrument for assessing decisional capacity for clinical research. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2007;64:966-974.

Palmer BW, Dunn LB, Depp CA, Eyler LT, Jeste DV. Decisional capacity to consent to research among patients with bipolar disorder: Comparison with schizophrenia patients and healthy subjects. J Clin Psychiatry 2007;68:689-96.

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