Carmen L. Masson, Ph.D.

Assistant Adjunct Professor
University of California, San Francisco
Phone: (415) 206-8404
Fax: (415) 206-5241
E-mail: Carmen.Masson@ucsf.edu

Carmen Masson, Ph.D. is an Associate adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF.  Dr. Masson's research interests are in the areas of HIV prevention and health services research.  Her research program focuses on further understanding and addressing health disparities among drug users through developmental and intervention research.  She currently serves as principal investigator on three funded projects including a NIDA-funded collaborative clinical trial that tests the effectiveness of HIV  and hepatitis care coordination model in the methadone treatment setting; a project funded as a supplement to the NIDA California-Arizona Clinical Trials Network Research NODE (James Sorensen, UCSF, PI) designed to identify factors that may influence the under-utilization of substance abuse treatment services by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and the readiness of substance abuse treatment programs serving AAPIs to participate in clinical trials and adopt evidence based practices; and a project funded as a supplement to the NIDA California-Arizona Clinical Trials Network Research Node (James Sorensen, UCSF, PI), and co-funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, which seeks to identify barriers and facilitators to receiving HIV and hepatitis C screening and treatment among ethnic minority drug users.  Dr. Masson is the Director of Training, Quality Assurance and Dissemination of the California/Arizona Node of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network.  She has particpated as a faculty member in the NIDA-funded Postdoctoral Program in Drug Abuse Treatment and Services Research at UCSF since 1998.  Dr. Masson also participates in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry Summer Research Training Program and the Summer Research with NIDA for Underrepresented Students program.

Selected Publications
Masson, CL, Sorensen, JL, Grossman, N, Sporer, K, Des Jarlais, D & Perlman, DC.  Organizational issues in the implementation of a hospital-based syringe exchange program.  Substance Use and Misuse.  In Press.

Chen, T, Masson, CL, Sorensen, JL & Greenberg, B.  Residential Treatment Modifications:  Adjunctive Services to Accommodate Clients on Methadone.  The American Journal of Drug and Alchol Abuse.  In Press.

Sorensen, JL, Andrews, S, Delucchi, K, Greenberg, B, Guydish, J, Masson, CL, & Shopshire, M.  Methadone Patients in the Therapeutic Community:  A Test of Equivalency.  Drug and Alchol Dependence.  In Press.

Masson, CL, Sorensen, JL, Perlman, DC, Shopshire, MS, Delucchi, KL, Chen, T, Sporer, K, Des Jarlais, D & Hall, SM.  (2007).  Hospital versus community-based syringe exchange:  A randomized controlled trial.  AIDS Education and Prevention, 19, 97-110.

Chiao, C, Morisky, DE, Ksobiech, K, Masson, CL & Malow, RM.  (2007).  Clinical appointment attendance for sexually transmitted infection examinations among Filipina sex workers:  A multilevel analysis.  AIDS Care, 19, 1166-1170.

Barnett, PG, Masson, CL Sorensen, JL, Wong, W, Delucchi, K, & Hall, S (2006).  Linking opioid dependent emergency patients to drug treatment:  health care use and costs six months after randomization.  Addiction, 101, 1797-1804.

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