Faculty Affiliates
Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD
Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine; Director, Postdoctoral Mentored training Program in Clinical Investigation at Washington University School of Medicine; Co-Director, LEADers to Accelerate Global Mental Health Disparities Research Program
Dr. Patricia Cavazos-Rehg is the principal investigator (PI) of iCHASM Research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a clinically trained licensed psychologist who has been involved in biomedical research for over 10 years. After receiving her Ph.D. in Psychology from SUNY at Buffalo in 2004, she moved to Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) in St. Louis, MO to begin her research career, focusing on understanding how policy and social media shape substance use and mental health risk behaviors of young people. In addition to her research, she is also a dedicated Professor and was voted “Course Master of the Year” in 2014 and 2018 by students enrolled in the Master of Science in Applied Health Behavior Research program at WUSM.
Affiliations
- Curriculum Committee Member, Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI), Washington University School of Medicine
- Internal Advisory Committee Member, Clinical Research Training Center (CRTC), Washington University School of Medicine
- Member of Advisory Committee, mHealth Research Core, Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS)
- Chair, NIH Special Emphasis Panel, America’s Startups and Small Businesses Build Technologies to Stop the Opioid Epidemic (R41/R42/R43/R44 – Clinical Trial Optional)
Selected Publications
- Cavazos-Rehg P, Li X, Kasson E, Kaiser N, Borodovsky JT, Grucza R, Chen LS, Bierut LJ. Exploring how social media exposure and interactions are associated with ENDS and tobacco use in adolescents from the PATH study. Nicotine Tob Res. 2021 Feb 16;23(3):487-494. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntaa113. PMID: 32598479; PMCID: PMC7885778. View Source
- Cavazos-Rehg PA, Fitzsimmons-Craft EE, Krauss MJ, Anako N, Xu C, Kasson E, Costello SJ, Wilfley DE. Examining the self-reported advantages and disadvantages of socially networking about body image and eating disorders. Int J Eat Disord. 2020 Jun;53(6):852-863. doi: 10.1002/eat.23282. PMID: 32359127. View Source
- Szlyk H, Deng J, Xu C, Krauss MJ, Cavazos-Rehg PA. Leveraging social media to explore the barriers to treatment among individuals with depressive symptoms. Depress Anxiety. 2020 May;37(5):458-465. doi: 10.1002/da.22990. PMID: 31943530; PMCID: PMC7239721. View Source
- Cavazos-Rehg PA, Krauss MJ, Costello SJ, Ramsey AT, Petkas D, Gunderson S, Bierut LJ, Marsch LA. Delivering information about medication assisted treatment to individuals who misuse opioids through a mobile app: A pilot study. Journal of Public Health. 2020 Feb 28;42(1):149-54. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy207. PMID: 30445639. View Source
- Cavazos-Rehg PA, Grucza R, Krauss MJ, Smarsh A, Anako N, Kasson E, Kaiser N, Sansone S, Winograd R, Bierut LJ. Utilizing social media to explore overdose and HIV/HCV risk behaviors among current opioid misusers. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2019 Dec 1;205:107690. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107690. PMID: 31778902; PMCID: PMC6894427. View Source
- Yan H, Fitzsimmons-Craft EE, Goodman M, Krauss M, Das S, Cavazos-Rehg P. Automatic detection of eating disorder-related social media posts that could benefit from a mental health intervention. Int J Eat Disord. 2019 Oct;52(10):1150-1156. doi: 10.1002/eat.23148. PMID: 31381168; PMCID: PMC6790146. View Source