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Carol Caton, PH.D.
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences (in Psychiatry)
Director, Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies,
Mailman School of Public Health
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Carol L.M. Caton, Ph.D. (B.S. Columbia; Ph.D., Medical Sociology, Yale) has held faculty appointments at Yale University School of Medicine, SUNY-Downstate Medical School, and the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University. Dr. Caton is currently Professor of Clinical Public Health (Psychiatry and Sociomedical Sciences), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and Research Scientist, New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Caton is the Principal Investigator and Director of a new NIMH-funded P30 ACISIR, the Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CHPS). CHPS is a mental health services research center focused on the development of interventions to prevent chronic homelessness (see http://cchps.columbia.edu). Scholars from various departments and schools at Columbia University and elsewhere in the region are involved in this multidisciplinary effort, as are providers, consumers, and policy makers in the areas of homeless services, housing, and mental health care.
In addition to directing CHPS, Dr. Caton is conducting a NIDA-funded study of HIV risk among homeless women housed in New York City shelters. Recently completed NIH-funded studies include a study of the course of homelessness among newly homeless single adult men and women, a longitudinal study of the onset and course of psychosis and substance use comorbidity among psychiatric emergency department admissions, and an exploratory effort to develop a peer support intervention for people at risk of homelessness who suffer from psychosis and substance use comorbidity. Dr. Caton is the author of Homeless in America (Oxford University Press) and she has published extensively on schizophrenia, homelessness, and dual disorders. She participated in the development of Uniting for Solutions Beyond Shelter, the New York City plan to end chronic homelessness. Dr. Caton currently serves on the research advisory boards of the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
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Undergraduate: Columbia University, B.S., 1962
Graduate: Yale University, M. Phil., Ph.D., 1969
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Address:
NYC Public Health Building
Room 517 Unit/Box:
600 W. 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-305-3503
Fax: 212-305-0426
clc3@columbia.edu
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| Research interests include studies of community adjustment in schizophrenia, epidemiological and treatment studies of psychosis and substance use comorbidity,and strategies for preventing homelessness among people with severe mental illness.
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1. Caton CLM, Hasin DS, Shrout PE, Drake RE, Dominguez B, First MB, Samet S, Schanzer B: Stability of early-phase primary psychotic disorders with concurrent substance use and substance-induced psychosis. British Journal of Psychiatry 2007;190: 105-111
2. Schanzer B, Dominguez B, Shrout PE, Caton CLM: Homelessness, Health Status, and Health Care Use. American Journal of Public Health 2007;97: 464-469
3. Caton CLM, Hasin DS, Shrout PE, Drake RE, Dominguez B, Samet S, Schanzer B: Predictors of Psychosis Remission in Psychotic Disorders that Co-occur with Substance Use. Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006;32: 618-625
4. Caton CLM, Drake RE, Hasin DS, Dominguez B, Shrout PE, Samet S, Schanzer B: Differences Between Early-Phase Primary Psychotic Disorders with Concurrent Substance Use and Substance-Induced Psychosis. Archives of General Psychaitry 2005;62: 137-145
5. Caton CLM, Dominguez B, Schanzer B, Hasin DS, Shrout PE, Felix A, McQuistion H, Opler LA, Hsu E: Risk Factors for Long-Term Homelessness: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of First-Time Homeless Single Adults. American Journal of Public Health 2005;95: 1753-1759
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