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  • Christina S Meade

  • Assistant Professor
  • Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Trent Hall 111
  • Campus Box 90519
  • Phone: (919) 613-6549
  • Fax: (919) 613-6215
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    Christina S. Meade, PhD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical School and a member of the Duke Global Health Institute, the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, and the Duke Center for AIDS Research. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Yale University in 2006 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in drug abuse and brain imaging at Harvard Medical School in 2008. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Meade has extensive patient-oriented behavioral science research experience related to HIV/AIDS, drug addiction, and mental illness, with over 30 peer-reviewed publications in this area. She has conducted a series of studies examining predictors of HIV risk behavior in adults with substance use and psychiatric disorders, and the relationship between mental health and continued risk behavior in HIV-positive adults. She is also interested in the development of evidence-based treatments, including the integration of biomedical and behavioral therapies, for reducing risk behavior among drug users. For example, she recently completed the first randomized trial in the United States of electroacupuncture for adjunctive treatment for opioid dependence. Dr. Meade currently has a faculty development grant from the Duke Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI064518), and she is PI on a pilot study funded by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (106884-42-RFBR) that examines the relationship between impulsivity and risk behavior in HIV-positive drug abusers, utilizing both behavioral, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments. A 5-year career development award (K23 DA028660) on neurobehavioral and fMRI research in HIV infection and cocaine dependence is pending funding. Given that most people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS living in the developing world, she hopes to expand her neuroAIDS research to international settings, particularly Africa, and has initiated collaborations with the Neurology Sub-committee of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

  • Specialties

    • HIV/AIDS
    • Psychology

  • Education

      • Ph.D.,
      • Yale University,
      • 2006
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