Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Psychiatry
Dr. Alexander C. Tsai, MD
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Alexander Tsai practices Psychiatry. He researched medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He received 2 awards: "Health Services Research Early Career Award" and "Laughlin Fellowship". Alexander Tsai is a published doctor. He has 100 publications published. The most current publication "Food insecurity is associated with HIV, sexually transmitted infections and drug use among men in the United States."
Publications
- Reply to Okatch et al.
- Economic Opportunity, Health Behaviors, and Mortality in the United States.
- HIV infection and arterial stiffness among older-adults taking antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda.
- Food insufficiency, depression, and the modifying role of social support: Evidence from a population-based, prospective cohort of pregnant women in peri-urban South Af...
- Communal bereavement and resilience in the aftermath of a terrorist event: Evidence from a natural experiment.
- Association Between Social Integration and Suicide Among Women in the United States.
- Proximate Context of HIV Stigma and Its Association with HIV Testing in Sierra Leone: A Population-Based Study.
- In Reply to "A Call for Better Methodology for Global Mental Health Educational Program Reviews".
- Prospective Study of the Mental Health Consequences of Sexual Violence Among Women Living With HIV in Rural Uganda.
- Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Among HIV-Infected Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda.
- Trends in CD4 Count at Presentation to Care and Treatment Initiation in sub-Saharan Africa, 2002-2013: A meta-analysis.
- Explaining Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Success Among HIV-Infected Children in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative Study.
- Persistent HIV-related stigma in rural Uganda during a period of increasing HIV incidence despite treatment expansion.
- Household malaria knowledge and its association with bednet ownership in settings without large-scale distribution programs: Evidence from rural Madagascar.
- Reliability and validity of depression assessment among persons with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.
- The Factor Structure and Presentation of Depression Among HIV-Positive Adults in Uganda.
- Declining Prevalence of Probable Depression Among Patients Presenting for Antiretroviral Therapy in Rural Uganda: The Role of Early Treatment Initiation.
- Population-Based Study of Food Insecurity and HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors and Symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Linked Couples in Nepal.
- Urinary incontinence, depression, and economic outcomes in a cohort of women between the ages of 54 and 65 years.
- Community-based prenatal screening for postpartum depression in a South African township.
- Global Health Training in US Graduate Psychiatric Education.
- Antenatal depression case finding by community health workers in South Africa: feasibility of a mobile phone application.
- The Dynamic Relationship Between Social Support and HIV-Related Stigma in Rural Uganda.
- Impact of Geographic and Transportation-Related Barriers on HIV Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.
- Households with young children and use of freely distributed bednets in rural Madagascar.
- Treatment as long-term prevention: sustained reduction in HIV sexual transmission risk with use of antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda.
- US medical specialty global health training and the global burden of disease.
- Reliability and validity of instruments for assessing perinatal depression in african settings: systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Harnessing Poverty Alleviation to Reduce the Stigma of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Reversal of the Kynurenine Pathway of Tryptophan Catabolism May Improve Depression in ART-treated HIV-infected Ugandans.
- Scope of Global Health Training in U.S. Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs.
- Does Effective Depression Treatment Alone Reduce Secondary HIV Transmission Risk? Equivocal Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Food insecurity and its association with co-occurring postnatal depression, hazardous drinking, and suicidality among women in peri-urban South Africa.
- Longitudinal assessment of associations between food insecurity, antiretroviral adherence and HIV treatment outcomes in rural Uganda.
- Eleven-year outcomes from an integrated residency program to train research psychiatrists.
- How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda.
- Internalized Stigma, Social Distance, and Disclosure of HIV Seropositivity in Rural Uganda.
- Achieving Consensus on Terminology Describing Multivariable Analyses.
- Screening for common mental Disorders in low resource settings: reasons for caution and a way forward.
- Adjunctive atypical antipsychotic treatment for major depressive Disorder: a meta-analysis of depression, quality of life, and safety outcomes.
- Dissemination of Research Findings to Research Participants Living with HIV in Rural Uganda: Challenges and Rewards.
- Scaling up mHealth: where is the evidence?
- GPS-measured distance to clinic, but not self-reported transportation factors, are associated with missed HIV clinic visits in rural Uganda.
- Sexual relationship power and depression among HIV-infected women in Rural Uganda.
- Higher baseline CD4 cell count predicts treatment interruptions and persistent viremia in patients initiating ARVs in rural Uganda.
- Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood pneumonia, meningitis and influenza.
- A typology of structural approaches to HIV prevention: a commentary on Roberts and Matthews.
- Evidence for the Reliability and Validity of the Internalized AIDS-Related Stigma Scale in Rural Uganda.
- Directly Observed Antidepressant Medication Treatment and HIV Outcomes Among Homeless and Marginally Housed HIV-Positive Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Rethinking the "Pre" in Pre-Therapy Counseling: No Benefit of Additional Visits Prior to Therapy on Adherence or Viremia in Ugandans Initiating ARVs.
- Changes in food insecurity, nutritional status, and physical health status after antiretroviral therapy initiation in rural Uganda.
- Mental health spillovers and the Millennium Development Goals: The case of perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa.
- Community-level and individual-level influences of intimate partner violence on birth spacing in sub-saharan Africa.
- Food insecurity, depression and the modifying role of social support among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda.
- Medical Evidence of Human Rights Violations against Non-Arabic-Speaking Civilians in Darfur: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Is Food Insecurity Associated with HIV Risk? Cross-Sectional Evidence from Sexually Active Women in Brazil.
- Sexual Relationship Power and Malnutrition Among HIV-Positive Women in Rural Uganda.
- No Association Found Between Traditional Healer Use and Delayed Antiretroviral Initiation in Rural Uganda.
- Gender inequity norms are associated with increased male-perpetrated rape and sexual risks for HIV infection in Botswana and Swaziland.
- Proximate context of gender-unequal norms and women's HIV risk in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Food insecurity is associated with morbidity and patterns of healthcare utilization among HIV-infected individuals in a resource-poor setting.
- Conceptual framework for understanding the bidirectional links between food insecurity and HIV/AIDS.
- The social context of food insecurity among persons living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda.
- The importance of social ties in sustaining medication adherence in resource-limited settings.
- Prevalence and correlates of forced sex perpetration and victimization in Botswana and Swaziland.
- Aripiprazole in the maintenance treatment of bipolar Disorder: a critical review of the evidence and its dissemination into the scientific literature.
- A case of recurrent priapism in the context of quetiapine use, discontinuation, and rechallenge.
- Managing nonfinancial conflict of interest: how the "New McCarthyism" could work.
- Unclear clinical significance of findings on the use of referenced-EEG-guided pharmacotherapy.
- A marginal structural model to estimate the causal effect of antidepressant medication treatment on viral suppression among homeless and marginally housed persons with...
- Placing emergency care on the global agenda.
- A nearly overlooked mild case of ziprasidone-induced lingual dystonia.
- The use of mobile phones as a data collection tool: a report from a household survey in South Africa.
- Indirect costs of structural interventions.
- Setting priorities for global mental health research.
- Preserving objectivity in medical education.
- Setting research priorities to reduce global mortality from childhood diarrhoea by 2015.
- Unclear clinical significance of findings in adjunctive aripiprazole for major depressive Disorder: comments on article by Marcus et al.
- Research priorities to reduce global mortality from newborn infections by 2015.
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: guidelines for implementation of CHNRI method.
- Measuring mental health in child soldiers.
- Socioeconomic disparities in access to HIV/AIDS treatment programs in resource-limited settings.
- Rural-urban comparison of contextual associations with self-reported mental health status.
- Who is buying normative bioethics research?
- Significance of findings in aripiprazole for treatment of psychoses in Alzheimer dementia.
- Setting priorities in global child health research investments: universal challenges and conceptual framework.
- Public-private distinctions in matters of conscience.
- Prescriber profiling.
- Overcoming bias in estimating the volume-outcome relationship.
- Physician decisions to discontinue long-term medications using a two-stage framework: the case of growth hormone therapy.
- Industry-funded bioethics articles.
- A meta-analysis of interventions to improve care for chronic illnesses.
- Conflicts between commercial and scientific interests in pharmaceutical advertising for medical journals.
- Drawing policy conclusions from uncontrolled studies.
- MSJAMA. Policies to regulate gifts to physicians from industry.
- Declining payments for emergency department care, 1996-1998.
- An outbreak of web sites selling ciprofloxacin following an outbreak of anthrax by mail.
- Concern about drug reps.
- Food insecurity is associated with HIV, sexually transmitted infections and drug use among men in the United States.
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Personality Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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Doctors Specialties
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Blue Card PPO
- BlueConnect HMO
- Blue with Managed Care Behavioral Health HMO
- Preferred Blue PPO
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
Awards
- Health Services Research Early Career Award
- Laughlin Fellowship
Education
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UCSF -
University of Washington -
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1316047319 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | TSAI |
| First Name Of The Provider | ALEXANDER |
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