Dr. Ronald Kessler

Ronald Kessler, Ph.D.

McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
617-432-3587
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McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy

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Harvard Medical School
Dept of Health Care Policy
180 Longwood Ave  
Boston MA 02115

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Lifetime and 12-Month Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Academic Performance in College Freshmen.
Authors: Kiekens G, Claes L, Demyttenaere K, Auerbach RP, Green JG, Kessler RC, Mortier P, Nock MK, Bruffaerts R.
Suicide Life Threat Behav
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The psychometric properties of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6) in a general population sample of adolescents.
Authors: Mewton L, Kessler RC, Slade T, Hobbs MJ, Brownhill L, Birrell L, Tonks Z, Teesson M, Newton N, Chapman C, Allsop S, Hides L, McBride N, Andrews G.
Psychol Assess
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Testing a machine-learning algorithm to predict the persistence and severity of major depressive disorder from baseline self-reports.
Authors: Kessler RC, van Loo HM, Wardenaar KJ, Bossarte RM, Brenner LA, Cai T, Ebert DD, Hwang I, Li J, de Jonge P, Nierenberg AA, Petukhova MV, Rosellini AJ, Sampson NA, Schoevers RA, Wilcox MA, Zaslavsky AM.
Mol Psychiatry
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Barriers to Initiating and Continuing Mental Health Treatment Among Soldiers in the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS).
Authors: Naifeh JA, Colpe LJ, Aliaga PA, Sampson NA, Heeringa SG, Stein MB, Ursano RJ, Fullerton CS, Nock MK, Schoenbaum M, Zaslavsky AM, Kessler RC.
Mil Med
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Selective screening of Niemann-Pick type C Brazilian patients by cholestane-3ß,5a,6ß-triol and chitotriosidase measurements followed by filipin staining and NPC1/NPC2 gene analysis.
Authors: Ribas GS, Souza HM, de Mari J, Deon M, Mescka C, Saraiva-Pereira ML, Kessler R, Trapp F, Michelin K, Burin M, Vargas CR, Giugliani R.
Clin Chim Acta
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A Cross-National Examination of Differences in Classification of Lifetime Alcohol Use Disorder Between DSM-IV and DSM-5: Findings from the World Mental Health Survey.
Authors: Slade T, Chiu WT, Glantz M, Kessler RC, Lago L, Sampson N, Al-Hamzawi A, Florescu S, Moskalewicz J, Murphy S, Navarro-Mateu F, Torres de Galvis Y, Viana MC, Xavier M, Degenhardt L.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res
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Post-traumatic stress disorder associated with life-threatening motor vehicle collisions in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys.
Authors: Stein DJ, Karam EG, Shahly V, Hill ED, King A, Petukhova M, Atwoli L, Bromet EJ, Florescu S, Haro JM, Hinkov H, Karam A, Medina-Mora ME, Navarro-Mateu F, Piazza M, Shalev A, Torres Y, Zaslavsky AM, Kessler RC.
BMC Psychiatry
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Notice of Retraction and Replacement: Kessler RC, et al. Associations of Housing Mobility Interventions for Children in High-Poverty Neighborhoods With Subsequent Mental Disorders During Adolescence. JAMA. 2014;311(9):937-947.
Authors: Kessler RC, Duncan GJ, Gennetian LA, Katz LF, Kling JR, Sampson NA, Sanbonmatsu L, Zaslavsky AM, Ludwig J.
JAMA
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Risk Factors, Methods, and Timing of Suicide Attempts Among US Army Soldiers.
Authors: Ursano RJ, Kessler RC, Stein MB, Naifeh JA, Aliaga PA, Fullerton CS, Wynn GH, Vegella PL, Ng TH, Zhang BG, Wryter CL, Sampson NA, Kao TC, Colpe LJ, Schoenbaum M, McCarroll JE, Cox KL, Heeringa SG.
JAMA Psychiatry
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Genome-wide Association Studies of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in 2 Cohorts of US Army Soldiers.
Authors: Stein MB, Chen CY, Ursano RJ, Cai T, Gelernter J, Heeringa SG, Jain S, Jensen KP, Maihofer AX, Mitchell C, Nievergelt CM, Nock MK, Neale BM, Polimanti R, Ripke S, Sun X, Thomas ML, Wang Q, Ware EB, Borja S, Kessler RC, Smoller JW.
JAMA Psychiatry
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