Dr. Jessica Magidson is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and staff psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She is a former postdoctoral fellow and current associate member in the Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at MGH conducting research on HIV and substance use in Cape Town, South Africa.

Dr. Magidson has extensive experience in developing and evaluating brief behavioral interventions to address substance abuse and self-care behaviors among HIV-infected individuals in the U.S., and she has published 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in this area.

More About Dr. Magidson, Associate Member

Dr. Magidson is currently funded by a 5-year K23 award from NIDA to develop and evaluate a lay counselor-delivered intervention to address substance use and HIV medication adherence in HIV care in Cape Town, South Africa. Through her K23, she is developing expertise in implementation science. She has been the PI of two other prior NIH grants, including one focused on evaluating behavioral activation as an integrated treatment for substance abuse and depression (NIDA F31 Award), and evaluating a model to understand behavioral factors that may explain how depression impacts HIV medication nonadherence among substance users (NIDA R36 Award). She has also clinical experience delivering, supervising, and training cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness interventions for substance use, depression, and HIV medication adherence.

Dr. Magidson has extensive experience in developing and evaluating brief behavioral interventions to address substance abuse and self-care behaviors among HIV-infected individuals in the U.S., and she has published 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in this area.

 

For Dr. Magidson’s publications, please refer to the below links:
1. https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/110419
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=jessica+f+magidson