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Melanie Biggs, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Office Phone: 214-857-0805
Biography
Dr. Melanie M. Biggs is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides psychiatric assessments, consultation, cognitive therapy treatment and training of faculty, graduate students and medical residents within the departmarts of Internal Medicine/Division of Epidemiology and Psychiatry. Dr. Biggs has a national reputation as a Clinical Trainer of psychiatric diagnoses, clinical outcome measures and the quality control (interrater reliability) of clinical assessments within both clinical care settings and research trials.
Dr. Biggs is the Chief of the Psychiatric Assessment & Outcomes Committee, a division of the Neuropsychiatric Sub-Core for the Gulf War Illness and Brain Imaging research contract (Robert W. Haley, M.D., Principal Investigator and John Hart, Jr. M.D., Co -Investigator). Her responsibilities include:
- Conducting diagnostic assessments;
- Monitoring psychological outcome data;
- Supervising clinical research coordinators; and
- The development, implementation, and monitoring of the psychological data.
Her clinical research interests focus on the screening, diagnostic assessment and treatment of depression. In addition, she is a certified cognitive therapist who received training at the Beck Institute of Cognitive Therapy & Research. She is also a Diplomate and Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Biggs enjoys providing psychotherapy supervision with graduate students and psychitry residents.
Clinically, Dr. Biggs also provides assessment, treatment and consultation for patients suffering from a comorbid medical condition (e.g., patient with depression and poor control of diabetes; adjustment to acute and chronic illnesses).
Education
| Graduate School | University of Texas Southwestern Med Ctr Dallas (1993) |
| Graduate School | Loyola College (1985) |
Research Interests
Publications
Trivedi, Fava, Wisniewski, Thase, Quitkin, Warden, Ritz, Nierenberg, Lebowitz, Biggs, Luther, Shores-Wilson, Rush, for the STAR*D Team , The New England Journal of Medicine , March 2006; (354):1243-1252
Rush, Trivedi, Wisniewski, Stewart, Nierenberg, Thase, Ritz, Biggs, Warden, Luther, Shores, Niederehe, Fava, for the STAR*D Study Team , The New England Journal of Medicine , March 2006; (354):1231-1242
Thase, M.E., Friedman, E.S., Biggs, M.M., Wisniewski, S.R., Trivedi, M.H., Luther, J.F., Fava, M., Nierenberg, A. A., McGrath, P.J., Warden, D., Niederehe, G., Hollon, S., D., & Rush, A.J.. , American Journal of Psychiatry , May 2007; (164 (5)):739-752
Husain, McClintock, Rush, Knapp, Fink, Rummans, Rasmussen, Claassen, Petrides, Biggs, et al., , Journal of Clinical Psychiatry , 2008; (69):406-411
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Honors/Awards
Outstanding Achievement Award for service provided to STAR*D; a contract with UTSW and NIMH (Rush, A.J., PI); Sequenced Treatment Algorithm For Resistant Depression (STAR*D)Trial (2003)
Diplomate andFounding Fellow (2000)
Student Research Dissertation of the Year Award (1992)