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Dominic A. Sisti

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Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
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Program Director, Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Health Care, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy
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Associate Fellow, Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives
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Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
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Affiliated Faculty, Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice
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Department: Medical Ethics and Health Policy
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13 Education:
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2d Villanova University, 1996.
21 8 MBE 16 (Bioethics) c
33 University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
21 a Ph.D. 17 (Philosophy) c
32 Michigan State University, 2010.
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24 6e Templeton Junior Research Fellow, Center for Academic Integrity, Duke University, 2004-2006.
24 6c Edmund Pellegrino Fellow, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, 2008-2008.
24 66 Coursework in Health Policy Research Methods, University of Pennsylvania, 2017-2017.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

24 Ethics consultation
1b Ethics in psychiatry
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Description of Research Expertise

3e Ethical & policy issues in mental health care
22 Ethics in end of life care
1a Bioethics education
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Selected Publications

e1 Perera I, Sisti D: Mass Shootings and Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization, Here and Abroad. American Journal of Public Health Page: S176-S177, June 2019.

13c Glickman, A, Sisti D: Prescribing Medical Cannabis: Ethical Considerations for Primary Care Providers. Journal of Medical Ethics 46(4): 227-230, December 2019 Notes: Published Online First: 18 December 2019. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105759.

10c Moin E, Sisti D: Jailers at the Bedside: Ethical Conflicts in Provision of Community Hospital Care for Incarcerated Individuals. Journal of Correctional Health Care 25(4): 405-408, October 2019.

c7 Terrasse M, Gorin M, Sisti D: Social Media, e-Health, and Medical Ethics. The Hastings Center Report 49(1): 24-33, March 2019.

13c Sisti D, Joffe S: Implications of 'Zero Suicide' for Suicide Prevention Research. JAMA 320(16): 1633-1634, October 2018 Notes: (Sisti D, Joffe S: Challenges in Research on Suicide Prevention-Reply. JAMA 321(11): 1105-1106, March 2019.).

173 Sisti D, Segal A, Emanuel E: Improving Long-term Psychiatric Care: Bring Back the Asylum. JAMA 313(3): 243-44, Jan 2015 Notes: (Reply to letters: Sisti D, Segal A, Emanuel E: Expanding Long-term Care Options for Persons With Serious Mental Illness-Reply. JAMA 313(17): 1757-1758, May 2015.).

fe Sisti D, Sinclair E, Sharfstein S: Bedless Psychiatry: Rebuilding Behavioral Health Service Capacity. JAMA Psychiatry 75(5): 417-418, May 2018 Notes: (Peer-reviewed JAMA Viewpoint).

c6 Sisti D, Ramamurthy C: From Alienism to ACOs: Integrating Psychiatry, Again. Psychiatric Services 67(4): 372–74, Mar 2016.

97 Johnson R, Persad G, Sisti D: The Tarasoff Rule: The Implications of Inter-State Variation & Gaps in 81 Professional Training. Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 42(4): 469-77, Dec 2014.

f8 Young M, Sisti D, Rimon-Greenspan H, Schwartz J, Caplan A: Immune to Addiction: The Ethical Dimensions of Substance Abuse Vaccines. Nature Immunology 13(6): 521-24, June 2012.

108 Sisti D, Segal A, Thase M: Proceed With Caution: Off-Label Ketamine Treatment for Major Depressive Disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports 16(12): 527, Oct 2014 Notes: 10.1007/s11920-014-0527-z.

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