Roberts, David L PhDSchool of Medicine |
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| 10/2014 - Present | Clinical Director | University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX |
| 8/2010 - Present | Assistant Professor | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX |
| Year | Degree | Discipline | Institution |
| 2010 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Clinical Psychology | Yale University School of Medicine New Haven , CT |
| 2008 | PhD | Clinical Psychology | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill , NC |
| 2008 | Internship | Clinical Psychology | Yale University School of Medicine New Haven , CT |
| 2005 | MA | Clinical Psychology | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill , NC |
| 2001 | MA | Social Sciences Curriculum | University of Chicago Chicago , IL |
| 1996 | BA | Anthropology (Honors) | Wesleyan University Middletown , CT |
Patient-centered research and program development- My service to patients is strongly informed by the unique issues faced by psychiatric patients in the areas of stigma and self-determination vs. paternalistic care. My social cognitive treatments for schizophrenia target interpersonal outcomes because these are identified by patients in needs assessment research as their greatest area of unmet need. I have been PI on two grant-funded projects and Co-I on a third that use patient focus groups, interviews and advisory committees to guide the development of new treatment initiatives. I regularly bring in consultant experts in the area of patient-centered care to advise our division and clinical staff, and I promote patient-centered activities throughout Texas through my involvement in MHMR clinician training initiatives (PI: Maples). |
Psychotherapy training- A centerpiece of my service to the University and the Profession is my work training and supervising psychotherapists. I have trained and/or supervised over 300 clinicians and researchers from the US and nine foreign countries in provision of social cognitive training for serious mental illness. At the state level, I train Texas community mental health clinicians in the use of Motivational Interviewing. And at UTHSCSA, I supervise 2-4 clinical psychology interns, learners from several other disciplines (psychiatry residents, social work interns, counseling interns, marriage and family therapy interns), and approximately 6 mid-level clinic staff in the provision of psychotherapy in the context of the Department of Psychiatry`s Transitional Care Clinic. I have been recognized for excellence in this area both locally, by the UTHSCSA Psychology Internship program & Psychiatry Residency Training program, and internationally, by Columbia University`s Cognitive Remediation in Psychiatry conference. I was also recognized for exemplary teaching during graduate school at both the departmental and university levels. |
Social cognition in psychiatry- My primary service to the research community has been my studies of social cognitive treatment for serious mental illness. I have published over 20 peer-reviewed articles, two books, an encyclopedia entry, and numerous book chapters on this topic. I co-developed the most widely studied and disseminated social cognitive intervention for serious mental illness (Social Cognition and Interaction Training; SCIT), have co-developed several other interventions, have been the principle investigator on four grant-funded clinical trials of social cognitive intervention, and co-investigator or consultant on nearly a dozen other trials. In addition to social cognitive intervention, I also study basic mechanisms of social cognition using models from social psychology, and I have developed two instruments for measuring social cognition in psychiatric patients. |
| Date | Description | Institution | # Students |
| 5/2018 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA | |
| 12/2017 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA | |
| 3/2017 - Present | Individual Instruction | UTHSCSA | |
| 3/2016 - Present | PGY-2 Psychiatry Seminar - Community Psychiatry | UTHSCSA | 9 students |
| Designed and directed a multi-part didactic series on Community Psychiatry for 2nd year psychiatry residents. Includes guest lectures from state- and county-level stakeholders, and development of an original curriculum. Duration ranges from 4 to 9 weekly 2-hour sessions annually. | |||
| 2/2016 - Present | Visiting Graduate Students | University of Iceland | |
| 1/2016 - Present | SCIT training for mental health clinicians and researchers | University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland | 5 students |
| Since early 2016, I have travelled to Iceland to train clinicians and conducted Skype- and email based supervision on implementation of SCIT in a community-based research trial. | |||
| 7/2015 - Present | Rotation Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 6/2015 - Present | Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 3/2015 - Present | Rotation Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 2/2015 - Present | SCIT training and ongoing supervision | Tulane University School of Medicine | 9 students |
| Provided training for implementation of SCIT within a state- and grant-funded early psychosis treatment program. Over two visits to New Orleans, provided a two-days of training for clinicians, and periodic Skype-based consultation calls. | |||
| 7/2014 - Present | Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 1/2014 - Present | SCIT training and supervision to researchers and clinicians | University of Copenhagen | 16 students |
| Beginning in 2014, I have trained and supervised researchers and study clinicians at the University of Copenhagen and affiliated clinics regarding implementation of SCIT. I have provided two on-site trainings in Copenhagen and provided Skype- and email-based supervision and research collaboration on implementation of SCIT within a grant-funded randomized controlled trial. | |||
| 1/2013 - Present | Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 11/2012 - Present | Clinical Psychology Internship Program Didactics | UTHSCSA | 10 students |
| Since 2012, I have annually provided a 2 to 4 hours of didactic seminars to the current cohort of UTHSCSA clinical psychology interns. Topics include psychosocial treatments for serious mental illness and men's issues in psychotherapy. | |||
| 2/2012 - Present | Mental Status Exam Instruction | UTHSCSA | 25 students |
| In 2012, 2013, 2017 & 2018 I team-taught AMSIT mental status exam system to second year medical students over the course of five 1-hour sessions. | |||
| 7/2011 - Present | Rotation Student Supervision | UTHSCSA | |
| 2/2011 - Present | SCIT ongoing training and supervision | Castle Peak Hospital & Hong Kong public mental health clinics | 32 students |
| In Feb 2011, I provided a two-day training in SCIT to three clinicians who traveled from Hong Kong to San Antonio. I provided ongoing email and phone-based consultation regarding implementation and study of SCIT. In 2017, I traveled to Hong Kong to train community clinicians and researchers. SCIT is now standard practice in all seven of the community outpatient mental health clinics for psychosis in Hong Kong. I expect to return in 2018. This has resulted in one book chapter for me and two publications for local researchers. | |||
| 2/2011 - Present | Visiting Graduate Students | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
| 9/2009 - Present | SCIT training and ongoing consultation | Zeijing University, Hangzhou China | 22 students |
| Training of University researchers in collaboration with the Seventh Hospital of Hangzhou and the Hangzhou Center for Disease Control and Intervention. Trained 30 community- and hospital-based clinicians, and university researchers, in SCIT implementation, social cognition in mental illness, and measurement of social cognition. Consulted on design of community-based effectiveness trial of SCIT and design of laboratory-based studies of social cognitive dysfunction. This ongoing consultation and collaboration has yielded three studies in peer-reviewed publications to date (Wang, Roberts et al., 2015; Wang, Shi et al., 2015; Wang, Roberts, Wang et al., 2013; Wang, Roberts, Xu et al., 2013). | |||
| 6/2007 - Present | SCIT training and ongoing supervision | Encontrar+se, Porto, Portugal | 19 students |
| Training to Encontrar+se community mental health program clinicians, administrators and trainees to implement SCIT in clinics in Porto, Portugal, and surrounding communities. Has included two training trips to Portugal and light ongoing email-based consultation. Has resulted in two local presentations and one shared in-submission research article. | |||
Federal |
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| Funding Agency | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) |
| Title | Improving transitional care experience for individuals with serious mental illness |
| Status | Complete |
| Period | 9/2013 - 8/2016 |
| Role | Co-Investigator |
| Grant Detail | This grant is designed to investigate patient centered outcomes through comparing the triage group vs. standard intake appointment processes at the Transitional Care Clinic. The clinic serves post-acute psychiatric patients discharged from inpatient units and emergency rooms. The additional treatment component of shared decision making will be offered to participants whom are randomized to the group triage process. Outcomes will be assessed based upon patient satisfaction and attainment of treatment goals. |
Private |
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| Funding Agency | Hogg Foundation for Mental Health |
| Title | Dissemination of the Recovery to Practice Curricula: Psychology |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 7/2015 - Present |
| Role | Contributor |
| Grant Detail | The aim of this project is to disseminate recovery-oriented curriculum content to clinical psychology training and internship programs throughout Texas. The content is designed to improve early career psychologists` knowledge and skill in treating individuals with serious mental illness. I function as the liaison of the program to UTHSCSA`s internship program and to the psychiatry curriculum group`s work with the UTHSCSA psychiatry residency program. |
| Funding Agency | Kleberg Foundation |
| Title | Crisis Response Planning (CRP) to Reduce Suicide Attempts in Del Rio/Acuna |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 11/2017 - Present |
| Role | Co-Investigator |
| Grant Detail | Through this grant I mentored Laura Eddy, a UTHSCSA clinical psychology intern, to disseminate Crisis Response Planning, an evidence-based method of suicide safety planning, to the border communities of Del Rio and Acuna. Nearly 100 community members were trained in this approach, we are in the process of building a border-region learning community to reinforce and expand use of this method, and we are in the process of seeking ongoing funding from the Kleberg Foundation to expand this initiative. |
| Funding Agency | Hogg Foundation for Mental Health |
| Title | Recovery-oriented crisis services for individuals with mental illness |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 7/2016 - 12/2018 |
| Role | Principal Investigator |
| Grant Detail | This project is assessing the feasibility of implementing a novel psychiatric crisis services that is an alternative to the emergency room. This has the potential to decrease crisis-related costs and to provide more patient-centered care. The project uses survey, focus group, and stakeholder meeting methodologies to determine patient needs/preferences and the feasibility of meeting these needs given limitations related to safety, logistics and billing. |
State |
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| Funding Agency | Texas Department of Health and Human Services |
| Title | Texas HHS contracts to train state-employed mental health therapists |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 1/2012 - Present |
| Role | Consultant |
| Grant Detail | PI Natalie Maples has received a series of contracts with Texas Health and Human Services (totaling approximately $8 million since 2015; $3 million in the past year) to provide training for state-funded and state-contracted mental health clinicians throughout the state. I have functioned as a content expert and trainer on several of these contracts. In 2012/2013, I contributed 0.2 FTE for 4 months writing content for a web-based training and teaching in a series of educational videos for clinicians on the implementation of Illness Management and Recovery (IMR), an evidence-based behavioral intervention for serious mental illness. Starting in 2017, I have contributed 0.3 FTE as a trainer in the areas of Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Social Cognition and Interaction Training. I have led or co-led five UT and two statewide staff trainings and workshops (reflected in Teaching portion of eCV). Through these contracts, I am in the process of becoming a nationally certified Motivational Interviewing trainer. I also have worked with Maples to partner with multiple Managed Care Organizations on statewide implementation of evidence-based practices. |
| Funding Agency | Texas Department of State Health Services |
| Title | Home and Community Based Services--Adult Mental Health (HCBS-AMH) Recovery Management |
| Status | Active |
| Period | 11/2017 - Present |
| Role | Principal Investigator |
| Grant Detail | This ongoing contract provides case management (aka, Recovery Management) services to Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness who are high utilizers of emergency services or long-term residents of state hospitals. Services include coordinating hospital discharge and overseeing the provision of mental health services to participating patients. I direct a team of 4 staff (approx. 3 FTE) who have billed for an average of $10,000 per month for the active months of the project. Contract billing is expected to grow over the next year. |
| Funding Agency | UTHSCSA |
| Title | Improving mental health outcomes for adults who have experienced trauma |
| Status | Complete |
| Period | 5/2015 - 9/2016 |
| Role | Principal Investigator |
| Grant Detail | This grant supported assessment and infrastructure activities to develop trauma-focused psychotherapy services at the UTHSCSA Transitional Care Clinic. It resulted in the establishment of a sustained Trauma Clinic that continues to serve approximately 35 patients per week. It also resulted in a sustained training infrastructure in which therapy interns and new staff receive training and supervision in provision of evidence-based treatments for PTSD. |