• 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 HIV risk taking behaviors in street-recruited and clinic recruited populations.  This cross-methodological research has led to publications on HIV disclosure to sexual partners and adherence to HIV medications.  Develop interventions to improve HIV prevention within clinic settings. 
• Research: Ethno-epidemiology of Substance use and Infectious Risk
  Ethnographic research involves regular immersion in the natural settings of injection drug users.  To use clinical problem 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.
• Heroin Supply Cycles
  Analyzing 14 years of heroin market data; examining trends in drug sources, pricing and purity and using these as covariates in models of infectious disease and other drug-related outcomes.

• Ciccarone D, Bamberger J, Kral A, Hobart CJ, Moon A, Edlin BR, Harris HW, Young DM, Bourgois P, Murphy EL. Soft Tissue Infections Among Injection Drug Users - San Francisco, California, 1996-2000. [Reprinted from MMWR] JAMA, 2001;285(21):2707-2709.
• Edlin BR, Seal KH, Lorvick J, Kral AH, Ciccarone DH, Moore LD, Lo B. Is it Justifiable to Withhold Treatment for Hepatitis C from Illicit-Drug Users? N Engl J Med, Jul/19/2001;345(3):211-5.
• Ciccarone D. With Both Eyes Open: Notes on a Disciplinary Dialogue between Ethnographic and Epidemiological Research among Injection Drug Users. IJDP, 2003;14:115-8.
• Ciccarone DH, Kanouse DE, Collins RL, Miu A, Chen JL, Morton SC, Stall R. Sex Without Disclosure of Positive HIV Serostatus in a U.S. Probability Sample of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection. [Digested in: Perspect Sex Reprod Health 2003;35:235-6] Am J Public Health, Jun/2003;93(6):949-54.
• Ciccarone D, Bourgois P. Explaining the Geographical Variation of HIV Among Injection Drug Users in the United States. Subst Use Misuse, Dec/2003;38(14):2049-63.
• Charlebois ED, Perdreau-Remington F, Kreiswirth B, Bangsberg DR, Ciccarone D, Diep BA, Ng VL, Chansky K, Edlin BR, Edlin B, Chambers HF. Origins of Community Strains of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Clin Infect Dis, Jul/1/2004;39(1):47-54.
• Ciccarone D, Coffin P, Preer G. Integrating HIV Risk Reduction into the Medical Curriculum. Med Educ, Nov/2004;38(11):1197-8.
• Ciccarone D. The Political Economy of Heroin: Regional Markets, Practices and Consequences (Lead Editorial). IJDP, 2005;16(5):289-90.
• Bourgois P, Martinez A, Kral A, Edlin BR, Schonberg J, Ciccarone D. Reinterpreting Ethnic Patterns Among White and African American Men Who Inject Heroin: A Social Science of Medicine Approach. PLoS Med, Oct/2006;3(10):e452.
• Mannheimer SB, Mukherjee R, Hirschhorn LR, Dougherty J, Celano SA, Ciccarone D, Graham KK, Mantell JE, Mundy LM, Eldred L, Botsko M, Finkelstein R. The CASE Adherence Index: A Novel Method for Measuring Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy. AIDS Care, Oct/2006;18(7):853-61.
• Cooper HL, Brady JE, Ciccarone D, Tempalski B, Gostnell K, Friedman SR. Nationwide Increase in the Number of Hospitalizations for Illicit Injection Drug Use-related Infective Endocarditis. [Featured in NIDA NewsScan and Reuters Health] Clin Infect Dis, Nov/1/2007;45(9):1200-3.
• Gilbert P, Ciccarone D, Gansky SA, Bangsberg DR, Clanon K, McPhee SJ, Calderón SH, Bogetz A, Gerbert B. Interactive "Video Doctor" Counseling Reduces Drug and Sexual Risk Behaviors among HIV-positive Patients in Diverse Outpatient Settings. [Featured in NIDA NewsScan] PLoS ONE, 2008;3(4):e1988.
• Ciccarone D. Heroin in Brown, Black and White: Structural Factors and Medical Consequences in the US Heroin Market. IJDP, (In Press), 2008. (add period after title)
• Hoffman A, Utley B, Ciccarone D. Improving Medical Student Communication Skills through Improvisational Theatre. Med Educ, May/2008;42(5):537-8.
• Ciccarone D, Jain S, Bourgois P. Understanding Illicit Substance Use in the "Real World." Med Educ, May/2008;42(5):532.

Department of Family and Community Medicine
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Box 0900
500 Parnassus Avenue, MU3E
San Francisco, CA  94143-0900

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