James W. Dilley

James W. Dilley is the Executive Director of the UCSF Alliance Health Project (formerly the AIDS Health Project), a mental health facility. He is a psychiatrist and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. He is a pioneer in the field of developing responses to help with the mental health issues surrounding HIV.[1] He has published on the issues of mental and physical health in the homosexual community and surrounding HIV.[2] Dilley and other AHP colleagues developed a counseling approach for HIV risk reduction called Personalized Cognitive Counseling (PCC) which was recognized in 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an effective behavioral intervention.[3] He was the 2016 recipient of the Adolf Meyer Award from the American Psychiatric Association.[4]

Education

He received his medical degree from the University of Missouri and completed his psychiatric residency at UCSF.[3]

Publications
  • Face to Face: a guide to AIDS counseling[5]

References
  1. "James W. Dilley, M.D." The Body. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  2. "James W. Dilley". Research Gate. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  3. "Our Team". AHP. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  4. "2016 Award Recipients". Psychiatry. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
  5. "Face to Face: a guide to AIDS counseling, updated version". Bolerium Books. Retrieved 3 February 2019.


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