Steven J. Shoptaw, Ph.D.

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Titles

Professor, Family Medicine

Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

Member, Addiction Medicine and Smoking Cessation Program

Brain Research Institute

CTSI

Center for Addictive Behaviors

Contact Information

Email
sshoptaw@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone
Work Phone Number: 310 794 -0619 ext. 225
Address

Work Address:

Address
10880 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
UNITED STATES
10880 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
UNITED STATES

Website
http://www.uclahealth.org/StevenShoptaw
http://cbam.ucla.edu

Biography

Steve Shoptaw is a licensed psychologist and Professor in the UCLA Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Dr. Shoptaw joined the Department of Family Medicine as full professor in 2005. Prior to this, Dr. Shoptaw was a Research Psychologist with the Integrated Substance Abuse Program in the Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science since 2003. Dr. Shoptaw earned his BA (1982) in Psychology and MA (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) in Psychology at UCLA. His dissertation was nominated for the Gingerelli Award for Excellence in the Department of Psychology. Dr. Shoptaw completed his postdoctoral training in Psychophysiology at the UCLA NPI/VAMC in Sepulveda, CA in 1991. Following that, Dr. Shoptaw worked for 10 years as a Principal Investigator with Friends Research Institute, Inc., during which time, his program of clinical research with substance abusers supported opening several treatment research clinics in Rancho Cucamonga, Hollywood, South Los Angeles, and West Hollywood. Dr. Shoptaw received the FRI Daniel Mendelsohn Young Investigator Award in 1996 and a mentoring award in 2000. In 1996, Dr. Shoptaw opened Safe House, a 24 bed facility that provides emergency, transitional and permanent housing to persons living with HIV/AIDS, chemical dependency, transitional and permanent housing to persons living with HIV/AIDS, chemical dependency, and mental illness who are homeless or at risk for homelessness. He continues with this program as a volunteer Executive Director. These linkages of clinical research and community collaboration have led Dr. Shoptaw???s work to influence practice guidelines in intervening with substance abusers, especially those at high risk for HIV transmission, locally, nationally and in emerging international epidemics.

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