Education
1962-1966
San Jose State University
Completed 3 years with Chemistry major and Philosophy minor and entered Medical School before receiving a degree.
1966-1970
University of California
Irvine College of Medicine–M.D. Degree
1970-1971
Highland General Hospital
Oakland–Rotating Internship
1971-1974
University of California
at Irvine–Residency in Psychiatry
1973-1974
Los Angeles Group Psychotherapy Institute
Member in Training
1979-1984
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute (now called the New Center for Psychoanalysis)
Ph.D. Degree
Licensure
1971
State of California
July 1, 1971 – #A 24338
Board Certification
1976
Diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
1995
Certified in Geriatric Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Professional Experience
1974-Present
Private Practice of General Psychiatry
1974-1975
Long Beach Veterans Hospital
Outpatient Clinic Family Therapy Coordinator
1974-1976
UC Irvine Medical Center
Consultation Liaison Service
1976-1977
UC Irvine Medical Center
Chief of Consultation Liaison Service
1977-1979
Long Beach Veterans Hospital
Chief of Inpatient Psychiatric Services
1983-1984
Orange County Psychiatric Society
Council Member
1983-1986
Long Beach Veterans Hospital
Outpatient Clinic
1975-Present
Pharmacology Research Institute, Newport Beach, CA
Medical Director
1986-1988
Mental Health Unit, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Medical Director
1986-1989
Student Health Service, UC Irvine
Consulting Staff Psychiatrist
1988-1993
CardiacTransplantation Team, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Chief Psychiatric Consultant
1988-1996
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Chief Psychiatric Consultant to Sleep Center
1988-1989
Adult Psychiatry Program – Laguna Hills Hospital
Medical Director
1989-2008
Hoag Memorial Hospital
Physician’s Assistance Committee
1990-1991
Partial Hospitalization Program – Laguna Hills Hospital
Medical Director
1992-1996
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
Chief of Psychiatric Division
Academic Appointments
1974-2007
University of California, Irvine
Associate Clinical Professor – Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Teaching Appointments
GENERAL: In above cited positions at UC Irvine Medical Center and the affiliated Long Beach VA Hospital at least half my time was devoted to teaching. Some specific teaching assignments involved:
1974-2006
Supervision of Residents in Individual, Family, and Group Psychotherapy.
1974-1977
Coordinator and lecturer for seminar series in Group and Family Therapy for both medical students and residents at UC Irvine Medical Center.
1975-1979
Co-taught, with a UCI Professor of Literature, a seminar for graduate and post-graduate students in which novels and other literature were read from a psychoanalytic point of view.
1976-1977
Coordinator and lecturer for two separate seminar series for UC Irvine psychiatric residents on the topics of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychoses.
1978-1984
Clinical Staff Rounds at Long Beach Veterans Hospital.
ADDITIONAL TEACHING: Outside of UC Irvine.
1984-2006
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Faculty Member: taught various Continuing Medical Education courses.
1985-1987
Courses on Psychopharmacology for Ph.D. Candidates at California Graduate Institute and United States International University.
1985-1993
Lecturer in Core Curriculum on Psychoanalysis in UC Irvine Residency program
Research Experience
I have worked with the Pharmacology Research Institute (PRI) since its inception in 1975 and currently have the position of Medical Director. At PRI we have conducted over 900 scientific research studies on medication effectiveness, covering a wide range of psychiatric and some neurological disorders such as migraine headaches, dementia and diabetic peripheral neuropathy. We have done most of our studies on Major Depression and other mood disorders such as Dysthymia as well as anxiety states including Generalized Anxiety, Panic Disorders, Post-traumatic Stress Disorders and Social Phobias. In addition to studying virtually all the major psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, Schizophrenia, Adjustment Disorders, and Sleep Disorders, we have studied other parameters such as alcohol response and alcohol interaction with other drugs, placebo response, and medication side effects. We have also conducted geriatric psychiatry studies on the major psychiatric disorders, early cognitive impairment, memory loss and dementia. We have also conducted many Migraine Headache studies and smoking cessation studies.
Professional Appointments And Membership
- Appointed Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 1987
- American Medical Association
- American Psychoanalytic Association
- International Psychoanalytic Association
- New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles
Publications
- De Francisco, D.F. and Watson, D. “Uncertain Certainty–Acute Leukemia.” The Experience of Dying. Chapter 24. Edited by E. Mansell Pattison. Reinhardt & Winston, 1975.
- Pattison, E. M.; De Francisco, D.F.; Frazier, H.; Wood, P.E.; and Crowder, J. “A Psychosocial Kinship Model for Family Therapy.” The American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 131:12, December 1975.
- Heiser, J. F. and De Francisco, D.F. “The Treatment of Pathological Panic States with Propranolol.” American Journal of Psychiatry, 1976, Vol. 133, pp. 1390-1394.
- De Francisco, D.; Anderson, D.; Pantano, R.; and Kline, F. “Length of Hospital Stay vs. Rapid Readmission.” Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 1980, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 196-197.
- De Francisco, D. “The Child Dream and the Child Transference.” The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1986, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 93-121.
- De Francisco, D. “Kohut’s Enhancement of Classical Psychoanalysis.” Psychiatric Annals, August 1986.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Cohn, J.B.; Linden, J.; Heiser, J.; Lucas, P.B.; Morgan, D.; and De Francisco, D. “Predictors of Placebo Response: A Retrospective Analysis.” Psychopaharmacology Bulletin, 1992, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 157-162.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Ryan, P.J.; Morrisey, J.L.; Cohn, J.B.; De Francisco, D.F.; Linden, R.D.; and Heiser, J.F. A Fixed-Dose Study of Adinazolam-SR Tablets in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacol. &Biol. Psychiat., 1994, Vol. 18, pp. 979-993.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Cohn, J.B.; Katz, B.B.; Guarino, J.J.; and De Francisco, D. “Short- and Long-Term Placebo and Active-Controlled Studies of Mianserin in Outpatients with Major Depression.” International Clinical Psychopharmacology, 1994 Vol 8, No 4, pp. 271-279.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Katz, B.B.; Morgan, D.L.; Morrissey, J.L.; Schneider, A.L.; and De Francisco, D. “Increasing Ethnic Diversity and Managed Care: How Will They Influence Research Patient Recruitment in the 1990’s?” Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 1996, Vol. 32, pp. 193-200.
- De Francisco, D.F. A Physician’s Experience as Both a Researcher and a Clinician [Invited Paper, Special Report Issues] Psychiatric Times, XVII (6): 57-60, June 2000
- De Francisco, Don. “The Greater the Artistry, the Greater the Danger,” Violence in the Media: A Symposium, American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2000, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 27-29.
- De Francisco, Don. “In the Long Run, We Are All Dead,” Response to an Article by Jack Kevorkian, Solve the Organ Shortage: Let the Bidding Begin, American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 2001, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 52-57.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Linden, R.D.; D’Amico, M.F.; De Francisco, D.F.; Morrissey, J.L. and Heiser, J.F. “Nefazodone in the Treatment of Elderly Patients with Depression”, Today’s therapeutic Trends, 20(2): 183-196, 2002.
- Gottschalk, L.; De Francisco, D.; Bechtel, R. “Computerized Content Analysis of Some Adolescent Letters of Napoleon Bonaparte: A Test of the Validity of the Method”, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, 2002, Vol. 190, No. 8
Abstracts And Oral Presentations
- Wilcox, C.S.; Cohn, J.B.; Katz, B.B.; Mijares, C.P.; De Francisco, D.F.; Heiser, J.F.; and Linden, R.D. A Placebo-Controlled Study of Two Arylpiperazines in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). 31st Anual Meeting, American College of Neuro-psychopharmacology, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 15, 1992.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Heiser, J.F.; Cohn, J.B.; Dale, J.L.; Linden, R.D.; Katz, B.B.; Morrisey, J.L.; and, De Francisco, D.F. “Placebo Response in G.A.D. Trials: An Analysis of Purported Predictors”, 32nd Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Honolulu, Hawaii, December 14, 1993.
- De Francisco, D. “Forenesic Implications of Psychoanalytic Observation on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Forensic Examiners, 1996.
- De Francisco, Don. “Stranger Anxiety in Traumatic Stress.” Paper presented at the 5th annual meeting, European Conference on Traumatic Stress, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 1997.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Morrissey, J.L.; Heiser, J.F.; Katz, B.B.; Schneider, A.L.; Bacon, P.F. and De Francisco, D. F. “Protocol Design and Predictors of Placebo Response: Studies with Antidepressants and Anxiolytics,” 36th Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Kamuela, Hawaii, December 10. 1997.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Morrissey, J.; Heiser, J.F.; Katz, B.B.; Cho, F.; Grosz, D.; Linden, R.D.; and De Francisco, D.F. “Patients’ Motivations as Potential Predictors of Placebo Response: Yesterday and Today.” 37th Annual Meeting, American College of Neuro-psychopharmacology, Loas Croabas, Puerto Rico, December 14, 1998.
- Wilcox, C.S.; Cho, F.E.; Heiser, J.F.; Morrissey, J.L.; Katz, B.B.; Grosz, D.E.; and De Francisco, D.F. “Placebo Response in Depression Studies: Do Previously Reported Predictors Have any Utility?” 39th Annual N.C.D.E.U. Meeting, Boca Raton, Florida, June 2, 1999.