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Personal History
Susan Boyd, M.D. is Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and attending psychiatrist at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. Dr. Boyd completed her Psychiatry residency at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1999 after completing her M.D. degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1995. She graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1983. From 1999 to 2003 she was Clinical Fellow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program. Since 2003 she has served as Attending Psychiatrist at the Baltimore VA Medical Center (BVAMC) and at the UMMC Psychiatric Emergency Room. At the BVAMC she is medical director of the methadone maintenance program. She is the Primary Investigator on "Increasing Access to Substance Abuse Treatment: Resolving the 'Not in My Backyard' Phenomenon Regarding Substance Abuse Treatment Centers." The project is funded by a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program and uses computerized mapping to study the relationship between substance abuse treatment centers and neighborhood crime. She is the author of numerous peer reviewed papers including: Boyd, Susan J.; Armstrong, Kevin M.; Fang, Li Juan; Medoff, Deborah R.; Dixon, Lisa B.: Use of a "omicroecologic technique" to study crime around substance abuse treatment centers, Social Science Computer Review, 25(2), Summer 2007.
Research Interests
My research interests include the effect of substance abuse and other treatment centers on communities, particularly on neighborhood crime, and the use of computerized mapping in psychiatric research. She is also interested in research surrounding methadone maintenance treatment and the emergency treatment of psychiatric patients.
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Dr. Boyd is the Primary Investigator on "Increasing Access to Substance Abuse Treatment: Resolving the 'Not in My Backyard' Phenomenon Regarding Substance Abuse Treatment Centers." The project is funded by a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Substance Abuse Policy Research Program and uses computerized mapping to study the relationship between substance abuse treatment centers and neighborhood crime.Publications
Gorelick DA, Kim YK, Bencherif B, Boyd SJ, Nelson R, Copersino ML, Dannals RF, Frost JJ.: Brain mu-opioid receptor binding: relationship to relapse to cocaine use after monitored abstinence, Psychopharmacology, 2008 Nov; 200(4):475-86. Kanneganti P, Nelson RA, Boyd SJ, Ziegelstein RC, Gorelick DA: Exercise stress testing in recently abstinent chronic cocaine abusers, American Journal on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2008;34(4):489-98.
Levin KH, Copersino ML, Epstein D, Boyd SJ, Gorelick DA: Longitudinal ECG changes in cocaine users during extended abstinence, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 2008 May 1;95(1-2):160-3.
Huestis, Marylin; Boyd, Susan; Heishman, Stephen; Preston, Kenzie; Bonnet, Denis; Le Fur, Gerard; Gorelick, David: Single and multiple doses of rimonabant antagonize acute effects of smoked cannabis in male cannabis users, Psychopharmacology, 2007 Nov;194(4):505-15.
Leventhal, Adam M.;Waters, Andrew J.; Boyd, Susan J; Moolchan, Eric T.; Heishman, Steven J.; Lerman, Caryn; Pickworth, Wallace B.: Associations between Cloninger's temperament dimensions and acute tobacco withdrawal, Addictive Behaviors, 32, December 2007.
Boyd, Susan J.; Armstrong, Kevin M.; Fang, Li Juan; Medoff, Deborah R.; Dixon, Lisa B.: Use of a "omicroecologic technique" to study crime around substance abuse treatment centers, Social Science Computer Review, 25(2), Summer 2007.
Leventhal, Adam M., Waters, Andrew J., Boyd, Susan, Moolchan, Eric T., Lerman, Caryn, Pickworth, Wallace B.: Gender differences in acute tobacco withdrawal: effects on subjective, cognitive, and physiological measures, Experimental and Clinical Psychology, 15(1):21-36, 2007.
Kolbrich, Erin; Barnes, Allan; Gorelick, David; Boyd, Susan; Cone, Edward; Huestis, Marilyn: Major and minor metabolites of cocaine in human plasma following controlled subcutaneous cocaine administration, Journal of Analytic Toxicology, 30:501 October 2006.
Copersino ML, Boyd SJ, Tashkin DP, Huestis MA, Heishman SJ, Dermand JC, Simmons MS, & Gorelick DA: Cannabis withdrawal among non-treatment-seeking adult cannabis users, American Journal on Addictions 15(1):8-14 Jan-Feb 2006.
Nelson RA, Boyd SJ, Ziegelstein RC, Herning R, Cadet JL, Henningfield JE, Schuster CR, Contoreggi C, Gorelick DA: Effect of rate of administration on subjective and physiological effects of intravenous cocaine in humans, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, (82): 19-24 2006.
Copersino ML, Boyd SJ, Tashkin DP, Huestis MA, Heishman SJ, Dermand JC, Simmons MS, & Gorelick DA: Quitting among non-treatment-seeking marijuana users: reasons and changes in other substance use, American Journal on Addictions 15:297-302 2006
Gorelick, David A.; Kim, Yu Keong; Bencherif, Badreddine; Boyd, Susan J; Nelson, Richard; Copersino, Marc, Endres, Christopher J, Dannals, Robert F; Frost, J.James: Imaging Brain Mu-Opioid Receptors in Abstinent Cocaine Users: Time Course and Relation to Cocaine Craving. Biological Psychiatry 57:1573-1582, 2005.
Boyd SJ, Tashkin DP, Huestis M, Heishman SJ, Dermand JC, Simmons MS, & Gorelick DA: Strategies for quitting among non-treatment-seeking marijuana smokers. American Journal on Addictions 14:35-42, 2005.
Boyd SJ, Umbricht A, Thomas NF, Tucker MJ, Leslie JM, Chaisson RE, Preston KL: Gender differences in self-reported indices of opioid dependency in a population of hospitalized African-Americans. American Journal on Addictions 13(3):281-291, May-June 2004.
Boyd, SJ, Tashkin, Donald P, Huestis, MA, Heishman, SJ, Dermand, JS, Simmons, MS, Gorelick, DA, Strategies de sevrage utilisees par le fumeurs de cannabis non demandeurs de Tun traitment, Alcoologie et Addictologie, 26 (4): 323-326, 2004.
Boyd SJ, Plemons BW, Schwartz RP, Johnson JL, Pickens RW: The relationship between parental history and substance use severity in drug treatment patients. American Journal on Addictions 8 (1): 15-23, Winter 1999.
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