• BS, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
• MD, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
• Residency, Family Practice Residency Program, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
• MPH, UC Berkeley
• Residency, UCSF/UCB Joint Residency Program in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health
• Fellowship, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF
• Fellowship, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF

• Teaching: Social Science Curriculum Integration
  Improving the social, behavioral and prevention science content within the undergraduate medical school curriculum.  Improving the HIV, sexuality and prevention content of the core curriculum.
• Research: Treatment and Prevention of HIV/AIDS
  To research contextual issues of treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, and related diseases, in socially marginalized populations.  Explore the complex socio-behavioral-medical issues of medication adherence, access to care and HIV risk taking behaviors.  This cross-methodological research has led to publications on HIV disclosure to sexual partners and adherence to HIV medications.  Improve access to and adherence with antiretroviral medications in a multiply diagnosed population.
• Research: Ethno-epidemiology of Substance use and Infectious Risk
  Ethnographic researching that involves regular immersion in the natural settings of injection drug users.  To use clinical outcome of soft tissue infection as case-study material to explore conceptions of risk, cultural myths about drug use, interpretations of public health messages, as well as issues of access to care and discrimination within the health care system.

• Ciccarone D. With Both Eyes Open: Notes on a Disciplinary Dialogue between Ethnographic and Epidemiological Research among Injection Drug Users. IJDP. 14: 115-118, 2003.
• Ciccarone D, Kanouse D, Collins R, Mui A, Chen J, Morton S, Stall R. Sex without Disclosure of Positive HIV Serostatus in a U.S. Probability Sample of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection. AJPH. 93: 949-954, 2003. Digested in: Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 35: 235-6, 2003.
• Ciccarone D, Bourgois P. Explaining the Geographic Variation of HIV among Injection Drug Users in the United States. Substance Use and Misuse. Issue: 14. 38: 2049-2063, 2003.
• Ciccarone D, Coffin P, Preer G. Integrating HIV Risk Reduction into the Medical Curriculum. Med Educ. Issue: 11. 38:1197-8, 2004.
• Ciccarone D. The Political Economy of Heroin: Regional Markets, Practices and Consequences. Lead Editorial. IJDP. Issue: 5. 16: 289-290, 2005.

Department of Family and Community Medicine
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San Francisco, CA  94143-0900

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ciccaron@fcm.ucsf.edu