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Address
PI Box 13; HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies; 1051 Riverside Drive
NY, NY 10032
Phone:212-543-5383
Fax: 212-543-6003
Email:[email protected]
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| University Affiliations |
| ▪ | HIV Center for Clinial and Behavioral Studies Investigator |
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Education and Training
| PhD
| 1990
| University of Southern California
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| MA
| 1987
| University of Southern California
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| BA
| 1982
| Brown University
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Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Sociomedical Sciences), Mailman School of Public Health
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Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), New York State Psychiatric Institute
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| Dr. Mellins is a clinical psychologist with research and clinical expertise in psychosocial aspects of HIV disease in families and children. ver the past 15 years she has completed projects examining individual and family psychosocial factors mediating medical adherence in HIV infected women and children; sexual and drug use risk behavior in uninfected youth with HIV infected mothers; and psychiatric and psychological functioning in HIV-infected mothers and children. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an NIMH-funded R01 grant: MH069133 Mental Health and Risk Behavior in HIV+ Youth and Seroreverter, one of the few studies examining psychiatric disorders and sexual and drug risk behavior in perinatally HIV-infected adolescents. Dr. Mellins is also an investigator and member of the neurodevelopment subcommittee of the Women and Infants Transmission Study (NIDA; U01 DA15053), a multisite study of HIV-infected pregnant women and their children. Most recently, Dr. Mellins has worked closely with providers and intervention researchers to develop and pilot a family based prevention intervention for perinatally HIV-infected adolescents and their caregivers (CHAMP+: Supporting HIV+ youth and their families; PI Mary McKay, Co-PIs Claude Mellins and Elaine Abrams). Dr. Mellins is also the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Special Needs Clinic at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), a mental health clinic for HIV-affected women, children, and families that has provided care to over 1400 patients since 1992.
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