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Member Information
Michael Blank, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Office Phone: 215-349-8488
Office Fax: 215-349-8715
Email: mblank2@mail.med.upenn.edu
Website(s):
http://www.med.upenn.edu/cmhpsr/
Education: Ph.D. 1991 University of Virginia
Keywords: HIV, Mental Illness
Research and/or Clinical Interests:
Co-occurance of HIV/AIDS among persons with severe mental illness.
Summary:
This project represents an integration of separate prograrns of research at Penn: mental health services research in the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research and AIDS research in the School of Medicine and School of Nursing . The Center for AIDS Research at Penn is one of 21 NIH-funded CFARs and includes HIV and AIDS investigators at University of Pennsylvania , the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Wistar Institute. Among the goals of the CFAR is to create an infrastructure to encourage HIV/AIDS research at Penn and to encourage development of new and emerging areas of AIDS research. This research initiative will help to illuminate the scope of the problem of HIV and AIDS infection among the severely mentally ill, a group at particular risk for infection and for whom treatment access and adherence issues are complex. A longer term goal of this collaboration is to develop an RO1 for an effectiveness trial of a community-based intervention regarding access, quality, and outcomes of care for persons with severe mental illness and comorbid HIV/AIDS and to further develop the capacity for this type of mental health services research within the CFAR. Specifically the project will examine ten years of Medicaid claims within Philadelphia and estimate the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among persons diagnosed with a serious mental illness (DSM IIIR 295.00 - 296.99). Differential prevalence of comorbidity of HIV/AIDS will be calculated for Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bi-Polar Disorder, Major Depression, Autism, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Also, the relative risk and attributable risk of HIV/AIDS given SMI morbidity, as well as SMI given HIV/AIDS morbidity will be calculated. Finally, an examination of costs of treatment for each of these groups will complete the pilot study.
Representative Publications:
Rothbard A. B., Metraux S., Blank, M.B. (2003). Cost of Care for Medicaid Recipients With Serious Mental Illness and HIV Infection or AIDS. Psychiatric Services. Vol.54 (9), 1240-1246.
Blank, M.B., Mahmood, M.., Fox, J.C., and Guterbock, T. (2002). Alternative mental health services: The role of the Black Church in the South. American Journal of Public Health, 92(10), 1668-1672.
Blank, M., Mandell, D., Aiken, L., Hadley, T. (2002). The Co-Occurrence of HIV and Serious Mental Illness among Medicaid Recipients. Psychiatric Services , Vol 53 (7), 868-873.
Stroup, T., Morrissey, J., Ellis, A., Blank, M. (2001). Does Medicaid capitation lead to increased burden for families of severely mentally ill persons? The Tidewater Managed Care experience. Administration and Policy in Mental Health , 29 (2), 117-128.
Fox, J., Blank, M., Rovnyak, V., Barnett, R. (2001). Barriers to Help Seeking for Mental Disorders in a Rural Impoverished Population. Community Mental Health Journal , 37 (5):421-436.
Farrell, S., Blank, M., Koch, J., Munjas, B., Clement, D. (1999). Predicting whether patients receive continuity of care after discharge from State Hospitals: Policy Implications. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing , Vol XIII (6), 279-285.
Fried, B., Topping, S., Morrissey, J., Ellis, A., Stroup, S., Blank, M. (1999) Comparing provider perceptions of access and utilization management in full-risk and no-risk Medicaid programs for adults with a serious mental illness. Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research , 27 (1), 1 - 24.
Fox, J., Blank, M., Berman, J., Rovnak, V., Burkett, B., Holzer, C. (1999). Mental disorders and help-seeking in a rural impoverished population. International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine , 29 (2), 181-195 .
Kane, C., Blank, M., Hundley, P. (1999). Care provision and community adjustment of rural consumers with serious mental illness. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing , 13(1), 19-29.
Blank, M.B., Fox, J.C., & Pezzoli, J. (1999). Implementation of an interactive voice mail system: Pygmalion in the clinic. (Manuscript in preparation.)
Blank, M.B., Hundley, P., Chang, S.K., Smith, H., and Graham, A. (1998). Reliability of psychiatric assessment using two-way interactive televideo. (Manuscript in preparation).
Taylor , L., Fox, J.C., Wilson , M.N., & Blank, M.B., (1999). Mental health services and welfare reform. (Manuscript under review).
Blank, M.B., Thompson, W., Deater-Deckard, K., Jackson , J.S., Bond, J., & Fox, J.C. (1999). Structural equation model of perceived wellbeing among Black Americans: Urban-rural and regional differences, (Manuscript under review).
Blank, M.B., Fox, J.C., & Hargrove, D.S. (1999). Linking informal and formal networks: The church, the telephone, and emerging technologies. (Manuscript under review.)
Johnsen, M., Morrissey, J., Calloway, M., Fried, B., Blank, M., Starrett, B. (1997). Rural mental health leaders' perceptions of stigma and community issues. Journal of Rural Health, 13 (1), 59-70.
