Thomas L. Patterson, Ph.D.
Professor in Residence
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0680
Phone #: 858 534-3354
FAX #: 858 534-7723
E-Mail: tpatterson@ucsd.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Current Studies
Functional Adaptation Skills Training (FAST)

Biography 
Dr. Patterson received his Ph.D. in Comparative Psychology from the University of California, Riverside in 1977. Since that time he has conducted research in a number of areas including HIV/AIDS prevention, rehabilitation of older patients with psychosis, and stress responses of caregivers of Alzheimer’s disease patients. He has authored or co-authored over 300 scholarly papers, 15 book chapters, and a widely-used textbook on human behavior. He was a founding editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior and has served as co-editor and on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. 

Research Focus 
Dr. Patterson has been conducting psychosocial research with HIV+ and "at risk" populations since 1989. His expertise is in behavioral interventions to reduce transmission of HIV through the modification of sexual risk behavior. Currently, he is the principal investigator of studies involving HIV-negative individuals who regularly use meth­am­phetamine (NIMH), HIV+ men who use meth and have sex with men (NIDA), and female sex workers in four Mexican cities on the U.S. border (NIMH). Dr. Patterson is also the P.I. of the Functional Outcomes Core of UCSD’s Center for Community-based Research in Older People with Psychoses (CCROPP). In 2001, he and his collaborators there developed the UCSD Performance-based Skills Assessment (UPSA), which has been chosen by the NIMH MATRICS initiative as the preferred measure for functional skills improvement in clinical trials. The UPSA was also used in Dr. Patterson’s NIMH-funded FAST study (Functional Skills Training for Late-Life Schizophrenia). Dr. Patterson is also a co-investigator on an NIA-funded project investigating the health conse­quences of caring for an Alzheimer’s patient.

Selected Publications:

• Patterson, T.L., Semple, S.J., Fraga, M., Bucardo, J., de la Torre, A., Salazar, J., Orozovich, P., Staines, H., Amaro, H., Magis-Rodriguez, C., and Strathdee, S.A. A sexual risk reduction intervention for female sex workers in Mexico: Design and baseline characteristics. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services 5 (2): 115-137, 2006.
• Mausbach, B.T., Semple, S.J., Strathdee, S.A., Zians, J., and Patterson, T.L. Effectiveness of a behavioral intervention for increasing safer sex behaviors in HIV+ methamphetamine users: Results from the EDGE study. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. In Press.
• Semple, S.J., Grant, I., and Patterson, T.L. Negative self-perceptions and sexual risk behavior among heterosexual methamphetamine users. Substance Use & Misuse. 40 (12): 1797–1810, 2005.
• Bowie, C.R., Anderson, H., Halpern, B., Patterson, T.L., Twamley, E.W., and Harvey, P.D. Self-assessment of functional status in schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research. In Press.
• Patterson, T.L., McKibbin, C.L., Mausbach, B.T., Goldman, S., Bucardo, J., and Jeste, D.V. Functional Adaptation Skills Training (FAST): A randomized trial of a psychosocial intervention for middle-aged and older patients with chronic psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia Research. 86: 291–299, 2006.
• Mausbach, B.T., Patterson, T.L., von Känel, R., Mills, P.J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Dimsdale, J.E., and Grant, I. Personal mastery attenuates the effect of caregiving stress on psychiatric morbidity. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 194 (2): 132-134, 2006.