Executive Director, Food and Drug Allergy Care Center; Physician, Clinical Immunology and Allergy; Professor Emeritus, Medicine; Clinical Immunology and Allergy, UCLA School of Medicine
Allergy & Immunology
Dr. Andrew J. Saxon, MD
Andrew Saxon practices Allergy & Immunology. He went to medical school at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a one of the best medicals schools. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. He received awards:"Fellow (FAAAAI)" and "Super Doctor". Andrew Saxon is a published MD. He published 101 publications, including: 'Autoimmune panleukopenia.'
Publications
- Tobacco use trajectories among a large cohort of treated smokers with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Use of a learning collaborative to support implementation of integrated care for smoking cessation for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Extended-release Naltrexone and Harm Reduction Counseling For Chronically Homeless People with Alcohol Dependence.
- Clinical monitoring and high-risk conditions among patients with SUD newly prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines.
- Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between PTSD symptom clusters, cigarette use, and physical health-related quality of life.
- Survey of providers' attitudes toward integrating smoking cessation treatment into posttraumatic stress disorder care.
- Cocaine Use Reduction with Buprenorphine (CURB): Rationale, design, and methodology.
- PTSD and depression as predictors of physical health-related quality of life in tobacco-dependent veterans.
- Integrating tobacco cessation into mental health care for posttraumatic stress disorder: a randomized controlled trial.
- Retention in methadone maintenance is associated with reductions in different HIV risk behaviors for women and men.
- Outcome of a second episode of methadone maintenance.
- An open trial of transdermal nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation among alcohol- and drug-dependent inpatients.
- Disulfiram use in patients with abnormal liver function test results.
- A pilot study comparing severely and persistently mentally ill opiate-addicted patients in dual-diagnosis treatment with patients in methadone maintenance.
- An innovative approach to reducing cannabis use in a subset of methadone maintenance clients.
- Clinical issues related to the costs of alcoholism.
- Quetiapine and false-positive urine drug testing for tricyclic antidepressants.
- Detecting bipolar disorder among treatment-seeking substance abusers.
- Changes in Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory scores among opiate addicts as a function of retention in methadone maintenance treatment and recent drug use.
- Using drugs to facilitate sexual behavior is associated with sexual variety among injection drug users.
- Pre-treatment characteristics, program philosophy and level of ancillary services as predictors of methadone maintenance treatment outcome.
- Trauma, symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, and associated problems among incarcerated veterans.
- Divalproex sodium in alcohol withdrawal: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial.
- Alcohol use and high-risk behavior by intravenous drug users in an AIDS education paradigm.
- Risk reduction in sexual behavior: a condom giveaway program in a drug abuse treatment clinic.
- Longitudinal sexual behavior changes in injecting drug users.
- Ineffectiveness of AIDS education and HIV antibody testing in reducing high-risk behaviors among injection drug users.
- Validity of the MCMI Drug Abuse Scale varies as a function of drug choice, race, and axis II subtypes.
- Marijuana use by methadone maintenance patients.
- Effects of education on high risk HIV transmission behaviors.
- Sexual behaviors of intravenous drug users in treatment.
- Urine screening practices in methadone maintenance clinics. A survey of how the results are used.
- Needle-use practices among intravenous drug users in an area where needle purchase is legal.
- Personality disorder subtypes among cocaine and opioid addicts using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory.
- Staffing patterns of American methadone maintenance programs.
- A nationwide survey of urinalysis practices of methadone maintenance clinics. Utilization of laboratory services.
- Validity of the MCMI Drug Abuse Scale with drug abusing and psychiatric samples.
- Valproic acid, unlike other anticonvulsants, has no effect on methadone metabolism: two cases.
- Addict beliefs about access to HIV test results.
- Needle obtainment and cleaning habits of addicts.
- Clinical evaluation and use of urine screening for drug abuse.
- A system for uniform application of contingencies for illicit drug use.
- Contingency management of urinalysis results and intensity of counseling services have an interactive impact on methadone maintenance treatment outcome.
- Users of free treatment slots at a community-based methadone maintenance clinic.
- Analysis of urinary benzodiazepines using solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
- Reporting of HIV risk behaviors by injection drug using heterosexual couples in methadone maintenance.
- Effects of psychiatric care for dual diagnosis patients treated in a drug dependence clinic.
- Longitudinal changes in injection behaviors in a cohort of injection drug users.
- Outcome of contingency contracting for illicit drug use in a methadone maintenance program.
- The Influence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Numbing and Hyperarousal Symptom Clusters in the Prediction of Physical Health Status in Veterans With Chronic Tobacco D...
- From research to the real world: buprenorphine in the decade of the Clinical Trials Network.
- Buprenorphine tapering schedule and illicit opioid use.
- Prevalence and epidemiologic correlates of human T cell lymphotropic virus infection among intravenous drug users.
- Mental health after deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan.
- Aspartame is no more likely than placebo to cause urticaria/angioedema: results of a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study.
- Oral sulforaphane increases Phase II antioxidant enzymes in the human upper airway.
- Penicillin allergy: value of including amoxicillin as a determinant in penicillin skin testing.
- Interleukin 6 is essential for antibody secretion by human in vivo antigen-induced lymphoblastoid B cells.
- Review of alleged reaction to monosodium glutamate and outcome of a multicenter double-blind placebo-controlled study.
- Comparative Safety of Benzodiazepines and Opioids Among Veterans Affairs Patients With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
- Multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multiple-challenge evaluation of reported reactions to monosodium glutamate.
- The second century of the antibody. Molecular perspectives in regulation, pathophysiology, and therapeutic applications.
- Fever of undetermined origin: role of cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus.
- Allergy-important advances in clinical medicine: clinical significance of helper/suppressor T cells.
- Cross-reactivity and sulfonamide antibiotics.
- Human activation-induced cytidine deaminase is induced by IL-4 and negatively regulated by CD45: implication of CD45 as a Janus kinase phosphatase in antibody diversif...
- Letter: Inhibition of platelet function by nitroprusside.
- Autoimmune panleukopenia.
- Helper and suppressor t-lymphocyte leukemia in ataxia telangiectasia.
- T-cell leukemia in ataxia telangiectasia.
- Macroglobulinemia and hairy-cell leukemia.
- Hemodialysis for oxaluric renal failure.
- Sulfasalazine-induced exacerbation of ulcerative colitis.
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency.
- What impact will the immune tolerance network have on the future treatment of allergic diseases?
- IgE-mediated allergen gene vaccine platform targeting human antigen-presenting cells through the high-affinity IgE receptor.
- A novel human immunoglobulin Fc gamma Fc epsilon bifunctional fusion protein inhibits Fc epsilon RI-mediated degranulation.
- Diesel exhaust particles directly induce activated mast cells to degranulate and increase histamine levels and symptom severity.
- Effect of diesel exhaust particles and their components on the allergen-specific IgE and IgG1 response in mice.
- Combined nasal challenge with diesel exhaust particles and allergen induces In vivo IgE isotype switching.
- B cell lines from a subset of patients with common variable immunodeficiency undergo enhanced apoptosis associated with an increased display of CD95 (Apo-1/fas), dimin...
- Chimeric human fcgamma-allergen fusion proteins in the prevention of allergy.
- A chimeric human-cat fusion protein blocks cat-induced allergy.
- Genetically engineered negative signaling molecules in the immunomodulation of allergic diseases.
- Switch circles from IL-4-directed epsilon class switching from human B lymphocytes. Evidence for direct, sequential, and multiple step sequential switch from mu to eps...
- Failure of B cells in common variable immunodeficiency to transit from proliferation to differentiation is associated with altered B cell surface-molecule display.
- Results of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Collaborative Clinical Trial to test the predictive value of skin testing with major and minor pen...
- Vasoactive intestinal peptide induces S(alpha)/S(mu) switch circular DNA in human B cells.
- Brief motivational feedback improves post-incarceration treatment contact among veterans with substance use disorders.
- Transporting efficacious treatments from academia to community: barriers and opportunities.
- Smoking cessation treatment among dually diagnosed individuals: preliminary evaluation of different pharmacotherapies.
- The Addiction Severity Index medical and psychiatric composite scores measure similar domains as the SF-36 in substance-dependent veterans: concurrent and discriminant...
- Challenges in the adoption of new pharmacotherapeutics for addiction to alcohol and other drugs.
- Integrating smoking cessation into mental health care for post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Implementation of buprenorphine in the Veterans Health Administration: results of the first 3 years.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder and smoking: a systematic review.
- Factors affecting willingness to provide buprenorphine treatment.
- A double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, prospective pilot study of the partial mu opiate agonist, buprenorphine, for acute detoxification from heroin.
- The association of persistent pain with out-patient addiction treatment outcomes and service utilization.
- A pilot trial of the alpha-1 adrenergic antagonist, prazosin, for alcohol dependence.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Harbor Genl Hospital
UCLA Center Health Science
Doctors Specialties
- Allergy
- Immunology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FAAAAI)
- Super Doctor
Education
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Harbor - UCLA Medical Center -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital -
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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