University of Illinois at Chicago
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Niranjan S. Karnik, M.D., Ph.D. (Department of Psychiatry). Dr. Karnik is the Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Institute for Juvenile Research, and Interim Director of the Center for Health Equity using Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He serves as Director of the Great Lakes Node of the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. His research focuses on data science, technology and community-based interventions for vulnerable populations with psychiatric and substance use disorders. In the past, he has worked with refugee children on the Pakistan-Afghan border, street children in India, foster youth in Central Illinois, and incarcerated youth in California. He worked at a youth homeless shelter in San Francisco and is continuing work with homeless youth in Chicago. He is presently a PI or Co-PI on grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration. He

Publications

  • Adapting a family intervention to reduce risk factors for sexual exploitation
  • Assessing and treating complex mental health needs among homeless youth in a shelter-based clinic
  • Validation of an alcohol misuse classifier in hospitalized patients
  • The Postencounter Form System: Viewpoint on Efficient Data Collection Within Electronic Health Records
  • Examining Insomnia During Intensive Treatment for Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Does it Improve and Does it Predict Treatment Outcomes?
  • 41. Understanding Young Bisexual Men’s Unique Health Outcomes and Sexual Risk: Implications for Future Research
  • A randomized controlled efficacy trial of an electronic screening and brief intervention for alcohol misuse in adolescents and young adults vulnerable to HIV infection: step up, test up study protocol
  • Negative posttraumatic cognitions among military sexual trauma survivors
  • Harnessing Phones to Target Pediatric Populations with Socially Complex Needs: Systematic Review (Preprint)
  • The Identification of Subphenotypes and Associations with Health Outcomes in Patients with Opioid-Related Emergency Department Encounters Using Latent Class Analysis
  • Treatment response trajectories in a three-week CPT-Based intensive treatment for veterans with PTSD
  • Building a Child Mental Health Workforce for the 21st Century: Closing the Training Gap
  • Considerations for working with youth with socially complex needs
  • Response to Fitzgerald & Barenholtz: There is still much work to be done for digital classifiers
  • Core outcomes set for research on the treatment of opioid use disorder (COS-OUD): the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network protocol for an e-Delphi consensus study
  • Implementation of Gender Identity and Assigned Sex at Birth Data Collection in Electronic Health Records: Where Are We Now?
  • Harnessing Phones to Target Pediatric Populations with Socially Complex Needs: Systematic Review
  • Editorial: Bullying and Suicide Risk: Restructuring Prevention, Identification, and Treatment to Address a Global Mental Health Crisis
  • Bias and fairness assessment of a natural language processing opioid misuse classifier: Detection and mitigation of electronic health record data disadvantages across racial subgroups
  • A chart review of substance use screening and related documentation among adolescents in outpatient pediatric clinics: Implications for practice
  • Publicly available machine learning models for identifying opioid misuse from the clinical notes of hospitalized patients
  • Feasibility of a 3-Week Intensive Treatment Program for Service Members and Veterans With PTSD
  • Using layperson-delivered cognitive-behavioral therapy to address mental health disparities
  • Supporting Primary Care Access and Use among Homeless Persons
  • External validation of an opioid misuse machine learning classifier in hospitalized adult patients
  • Depression among Youth Living with HIV/AIDS
  • Expanding Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Through Incentivized Continuing Education
  • The Substance Use Intervention Team: A Preliminary Analysis of a Population-level Strategy to Address the Opioid Crisis at an Academic Health Center
  • Structural Disparities in Data Science: A Prolegomenon for the Future of Machine Learning
  • Collaborative care for depression of adults and adolescents: Measuring the effectiveness of screening and treatment uptake
  • Differences in length of stay and discharge destination among patients with substance use disorders: The effect of Substance Use Intervention Team (SUIT) consultation service
  • Natural language processing and machine learning to identify alcohol misuse from the electronic health record in trauma patients: development and internal validation
  • A Case Report of Cognitive Processing Therapy Delivered Over a Single Week
  • "Now that you've got that coverage": Promoting use of a regular source of primary care among homeless persons
  • Treating posttraumatic stress disorder at home in a single week using 1-week virtual massed cognitive processing therapy
  • Investigating Unhealthy Alcohol Use As an Independent Risk Factor for Increased COVID-19 Disease Severity: Observational Cross-sectional Study (Preprint)
  • Investigating Unhealthy Alcohol Use As an Independent Risk Factor for Increased COVID-19 Disease Severity: Observational Cross-sectional Study
  • Addressing Intersecting Social and Mental Health Needs Among Transition-Age Homeless Youths: A Review of the Literature.
  • Analyzing treatment and prescribing in large administrative datasets with a lens on equity.
  • The substance use intervention team: A hospital-based intervention and outpatient clinic to improve care for patients with substance use disorders.
  • The opioid use disorder core outcomes set (OUD–COS) for treatment research: findings from a Delphi consensus study
  • A Mobile Phone–Based Intervention to Improve Mental Health Among Homeless Young Adults: Pilot Feasibility Trial
  • Impact of hazardous alcohol use on intensive PTSD treatment outcomes among veterans
  • Rates and correlates of well‐being among youth experiencing homelessness
  • Response to Kelley & Incze: there is certainly more work to do for the OUD‐COS
  • BrotherlyACT: An Online Life-Skills and Mindfulness Coaching Intervention for Violence and Substance Use Prevention Among Young Black Males: Protocol for Adaptation and Pilot Testing (Preprint)
  • External validation of a machine learning classifier to identify unhealthy alcohol use in hospitalized patients
  • A Scoping Review of Associations Between Cannabis Use and Anxiety in Adolescents and Young Adults
  • Subtypes in patients with opioid misuse: A prognostic enrichment strategy using electronic health record data in hospitalized patients
  • Automated Mobile Phone–Based Mental Health Resource for Homeless Youth: Pilot Study Assessing Feasibility and Acceptability
  • Early Life Stress and Childhood Aggression: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Callousness and Stress Reactivity
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Military-Connected Families: The Relevance of a Family-Centered Approach
  • High initial dosing of olanzapine for stabilization of acute agitation: A retrospective case series
  • An Overview of Sexual Trauma in the U.S. Military
  • 68.2 Smartphone-Based Intervention for Homeless Youth
  • 6.2 Impact of a Smartphone-Based Intervention on Substance Use Amongst Homeless Youth
  • Vulnerability, youth, and homelessness: Ethical considerations on the roles of technology in the lives of adolescents and young adults
  • Treating Emotion Dysregulation in Externalizing Disorders
  • Bias, the Scientific Method, and the Journal
  • Conflict of Interest and the Journal Revisited
  • Correction to: Early Life Stress and Childhood Aggression: Mediating and Moderating Effects of Child Callousness and Stress Reactivity
  • Posttraumatic Cognitions and Suicidal Ideation Among Veterans Receiving PTSD Treatment
  • Evaluating patterns and predictors of symptom change during a three-week intensive outpatient treatment for veterans with PTSD
  • Factors associated with substance use in adolescents with eating disorders
  • Mental health issues in unaccompanied refugee minors.
  • Victims of military sexual trauma - You see them, too
  • Psychiatric disorders, high-risk behaviors, and chronicity of episodes among predominantly African American homeless Chicago youth
  • In reply
  • The mental and physical health of homeless youth: A literature review
  • Personality and psychopathology in African unaccompanied refugee minors: Repression, resilience and vulnerability
  • Psychopathology in African unaccompanied refugee minors in Austria
  • Ethical challenges in developing drugs for psychiatric disorders
  • Factors associated with management of teen aggression: Child psychiatric clinical decision making
  • Psychiatric disorders and substance use in homeless youth: A preliminary comparison of San Francisco and Chicago
  • Negative Posttrauma Cognitions Mediate the Association Between Morally Injurious Events and Trauma-Related Psychopathology in Treatment-Seeking Veterans
  • Should clinicians medicate against structural violence? Potential iatrogenic risks and the need for social interventions
  • Psychosocial background in incarcerated adolescents from Austria, Turkey and former Yugoslavia.
  • Prevalence differences of psychiatric disorders among youth after nine months or more of incarceration by race/ethnicity and age.
  • Prevalence of and gender differences in psychiatric disorders among juvenile delinquents incarcerated for nine months.
  • Unaccompanied refugee children.
  • Personality correlates of physiological response to stress among incarcerated juveniles.
  • The cultural sensibility model: a process-oriented approach for children and adolescents.
  • Integrated treatment of aggression in the context of ADHD in children refractory to stimulant monotherapy: a window into the future of child psychopharmacology.
  • Low internalised restraint predicts criminal recidivism in young female prisoners.
  • Psychopathology, trauma and delinquency: Subtypes of aggression and their relevance for understanding young offenders
  • Responses to conflict, family loss and flight: Posttraumatic stress disorder among unaccompanied refugee minors from Africa
  • Psychiatric Prescribers’ Experiences With Doctor Shoppers
  • Child mental health and risk behaviour over time
  • Aging Well in an intentional intergenerational community: Meaningful relationships and purposeful engagement
  • Pragmatic research for a messy world
  • Network science and social media
  • Incarcerated youth with personality disorders: Prevalence, comorbidity and convergent validity
  • The relationship between patient and parent posttraumatic stress in pediatric oncology: A theoretical framework
  • Characteristics of veterans and military service members who endorse causing harm, injury, or death to others in the military
  • Child Mental Health and Risk Behaviour Over Time
  • Re: Inclusion of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Stage 3 Meaningful Use Guidelines: A Huge Step Forward for LGBT Health, by Cahill et al. (LGBT Health 2016;3:100-102)
  • Emotional expressiveness and avoidance in narratives of unaccompanied refugee minors
  • Centering Transgender Voices in Research as a Fundamental Strategy Toward Expansion of Access to Care and Social Support
  • Exploring the potential of technology-based mental health services for homeless youth: A qualitative study
  • Examining the Relationship Between Parent and Child Psychopathology in Treatment-Seeking Veterans
  • Teaching Psychiatry Students About Cultural Diversity
  • Evidence for Interventions for Young Offenders
  • Rwanda & the media: imagery, war & refuge
  • Rwanda and the media: Imagery, war and refuge
  • A Chart Review of Substance Use Screening and Related Documentation among Adolescents in Outpatient Pediatric Clinics: Implications for Practice
  • Between victim and victimizer: The narrow corporeal path of being a foster child
  • Foster children and ADHD: Anger, violence, and institutional power
  • State and trait emotions in delinquent adolescents.
  • Disruptive behaviors: conduct and oppositional disorders in adolescents.
  • Ethnic variation of self-reported psychopathology among incarcerated youth.
  • Divalproex sodium in the treatment of pediatric psychiatric disorders.
  • Locating HIV/AIDS and India: Cautionary notes on the globalization of categories
  • Child and adolescent psychiatry: New approaches to juvenile delinquency: Psychopathology development, and neuroscience
  • Categories of control: Foster children and ADHD
  • Antidepressant and statin interactions: a review and case report of simvastatin and nefazodone-induced rhabdomyolysis and transaminitis.
  • Racism in medicine. Environment for open, constructive debate is needed.
  • Developmental expression of G protein alpha subunits in mouse spermatogenic cells: evidence that G alpha i is associated with the developing acrosome.
  • Subtypes of pediatric delirium: a treatment algorithm.
  • Early maturation as a risk factor for aggression and delinquency in adolescent girls: A review.
  • Non-fluent progressive aphasia, depression, and OCD in a woman with progressive supranuclear palsy: neuroanatomical and neuropathological correlations.
  • Psychopharmacologic treatment in juvenile offenders.
  • A comparison between UK and US medical student attitudes towards cultural diversity.
  • Teaching cultural diversity to medical students.
  • First-year medical students' attitudes toward diversity and its teaching: an investigation at one U.S. Medical School.
  • Developmental expression of G protein α subunits in mouse spermatogenic cells: Evidence that Gαi is associated with the developing acrosome
  • Psychopharmacology and juvenile delinquency
  • First-Year Medical Students' Attitudes toward Diversity and its Teaching: An Investigation at One U.S. Medical School
  • Geolocation, Wi-Fi Connectivity and Psychiatric Symptoms among Urban Youth Experiencing Homelessness: An Analysis of Self-Report and Passive Data Collected from Smartphones (Preprint)
  • BrotherlyACT: A Technology-Enhanced Intervention for Violence and Substance Use Prevention Among Young Black Males: Protocol for Adaptation and Pilot Testing (Preprint)
  • Geolocation Patterns, Wi-Fi Connectivity Rates, and Psychiatric Symptoms amongst Urban Homeless Youth Using Self-Report and Smartphone Data: Pilot Study (Preprint)
  • Findings From the Step Up, Test Up Study of an Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Adolescents and Young Adults Presenting for HIV Testing: Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial
  • Findings From the Step Up, Test Up Study of an Electronic Screening and Brief Intervention for Alcohol Misuse in Adolescents and Young Adults Presenting for HIV Testing: Randomized Controlled Efficacy Trial (Preprint)
  • Geolocation Patterns, Wi-Fi Connectivity Rates, and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Urban Homeless Youth: Mixed Methods Study Using Self-report and Smartphone Data (Preprint)
  • Geolocation Patterns, Wi-Fi Connectivity Rates, and Psychiatric Symptoms Among Urban Homeless Youth: Mixed Methods Study Using Self-report and Smartphone Data
  • A Technology-Enhanced Intervention for Violence and Substance Use Prevention Among Young Black Men: Protocol for Adaptation and Pilot Testing (Preprint)
  • A Technology-Enhanced Intervention for Violence and Substance Use Prevention Among Young Black Men: Protocol for Adaptation and Pilot Testing
  • Child Maltreatment in Military Families: Risk and Protective Factors, and Family- Systems Interventions
  • Treating emotion dysregulation in externalizing disorders
  • Disruptive Behavior Disorders
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Aggression
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Disruptive Behavior Disorders
  • Building a statewide network of MOUD expertise using tiered ECHO® mentoring opportunities
  • Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning/Queer Two-Spirit Adolescents and Suicidality
  • Biopsychosocial Model of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Women Experiencing Homelessness: A Qualitative Descriptive Study
  • Machine Learning Techniques to Explore Clinical Presentations of COVID-19 Severity and to Test the Association With Unhealthy Opioid Use: Retrospective Cross-sectional Cohort Study
  • mHealth Uses and Opportunities for Teens from Communities with High Health Disparities: A Mixed-Methods Study
  • Ethical considerations for developing pediatric mhealth interventions for teens with socially complex needs
  • Development and multimodal validation of a substance misuse algorithm for referral to treatment using artificial intelligence (SMART-AI): a retrospective deep learning study
  • An Implementation of a Community-Engaged, Group-Level Mental Health Pilot for Black and Latina Transgender Women
  • Editorial: Pandemics Interact With and Amplify Child Mental Health Disparities: Further Lessons From COVID-19
  • Child psychiatry across cultures
  • Childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders
  • Disorders of Behavior

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