Featured Psychologist
Yih-Ing Hser, PhD is a professor-in-residence in the Department of Psychiatry and the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the director of the Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research (CALDAR) and a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute. A substance abuse and treatment researcher since 1980, Hser has extensive experience in health services research, treatment evaluation and long-term follow-up research. She has published in the areas of treatment evaluation, epidemiology, the natural history of drug addiction and innovative statistical modeling development and application. Hser also examines gender-related issues in substance abuse and treatment.
Since 2008, Hser has conducted NIDA-funded studies examining the success of methadone maintenance treatment in China for opioid use disorders. Additionally, she has organized the International Conference Series Promoting Global Health with a focus on Asian countries and populations in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and HIV, which built a network between UCLA, the AAPI workgroup, international investigators and educational institutions like NIDA. At CALDAR, Hser promotes and supports longitudinal research that enhances understanding of how drug patterns evolve and can interact with HIV, drug treatment services and systems (criminal justice, mental health) over time. She has authored or co-authored over 200 scholarly publications.
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