Sarah Linsley Starks

EDUCATION
  Current (2005 - ) University of California Los Angeles, Doctoral Student, Health Services.
  2001

Stanford University, B.A., Public Policy with Psychology minor.

FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH FUNDING
  2005-2007

AHRQ Fellow, UCLA-RAND Health Services Research Training Program. Doctoral training program funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
  Summer 2000 Sagner Fellow, The Century Institute. Three-week summer policy fellowship sponsored by The Century Foundation and directed by Paul Starr, Department of Sociology, Princeton University..
  1997-2001 President's Scholar, Stanford University President's Scholars Program. Research Project: Schizophrenia and Mental Health Policy. Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Lisa Butler, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine. Funding amount: $1500 research grant plus tuition assistance.
EMPLOYMENT
  03/2006-Present Health Sciences Specialist, West Los Angeles Veterans Administration MIRECC. Without compensation - work funded by AHRQ training fellowship. Work with Dr. Alex Young and Dr. Amy Cohen on "Implementing Effective, Collaborative Care for Schizophrenia" (EQUIP-2), a national, clinic-level quality improvement intervention for schizophrenia in three Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs). Participate in evaluation of wellness (weight loss) programs implemented in the original EQUIP program and in planning wellness implementation and data collection for EQUIP-2.
  06/2001-Present

Staff Research Associate, UCLA-NPI Health Services Research Center. Work on recently-funded (NIMH) study of the California Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) in Los Angeles County: helped write grant; will participate in data collection and analysis; and will lead a cost-effectiveness analysis of LA County Department of Mental Health's MHSA-funded programs (PIs: Joel Braslow, MD, PhD, and John Brekke, PhD). Provide ongoing research support and project management to NIMH-funded clinical history of antipsychotic drugs (PI: Joel Braslow, MD, PhD). Also provided research support to a Methods Core pilot study on psychiatric decision-making and antipsychotic drug polypharmacy; Media and Medicine for Communities; and Witness for Wellness community-based participatory research (CBPR) project addressing depression in South Los Angeles. Sampled and collected patient records; designed, implemented, and built search functionality for a record abstraction database; sorted and coded data (diagnoses, medications, and other treatments); conducted literature searches; developed research protocols, surveys, and qualitative analysis plans; coded patient records using Atlas.ti qualitative analysis software; conducted ethnographic interviews of clinicians; took field notes at CBPR working group meetings and trained other research assistants as notetakers; edited and wrote grants, human subjects protocols, and papers; supervised graduate and undergraduate research assistants.

 

Summer 2000

Research Assistant, imageReal Documentary Film, San Mateo, CA. Performed pre-production research and grant writing for nonprofit educational film on stigma and mental illness.
 

Summer 1999

 Policy Intern, Kids in Common child and family advocacy, San Jose, CA. Performed research for Silicon Valley Children's Report Card 2000 and violence prevention issue brief. Helped coordinate Healthy Families/MediCal health insurance enrollment events.
  Summer 1998 Research Intern, National Center for Family Literacy, Louisville, KY. Wrote paper on parent involvement in Title I schools for use in implementation of the Toyota Families in Schools family literacy program.
  Summer 1994, 1995, 1997 Faculty, Summerbridge, Louisville, KY. Taught mixed-abilities math, introductory French, conflict resolution, and high school counseling classes to at-risk middle school students. Coordinated and created curriculum for high school counseling program. Chaired photography committee and served as faculty advisor to student-produced literary magazine.
EXTRACURRICULAR AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
  2006-2007 UCLA Academic Senate Faculty Welfare Committee. Represent the UCLA Graduate Student Association (GSA) at monthly Faculty Welfare Committee meetings; submit quarterly reports to the GSA Vice President for Academic Affairs.
  2006 UCLA Graduate Students Association Appointments Board. Represented the School of Public Health in interviewing and selecting candidates for stipended Cabinet-level and Board Member positions in the UCLA Graduate Students Association.
  2000-2001 Stanford University Public Policy Program. Designed, built, maintained, and documented departmental website in consultation with Director. Trained Program Assistant to maintain site.
  1999-2000 Open Directory Project. Editor of Mental Health Policy and Advocacy web directory. Researched, added, and edited links to human-edited web directory. Served as e-mail contact for individuals seeking information or assistance about mental health policy and social services; conducted research in order to reply to queries.
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
  2001 Ann C. Seminara Award, Stanford University Public Policy Program.
  1997

Academy of Applied Science Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. First place in state; national paper presenter.
  1997 Presidential Scholars Semifinalist.
  1997 National Merit Scholarship Recipient.
  1997 Byrd Scholarship Recipient.
PUBLICATIONS
  Klap R, Tang L, Wells KB, Starks SL, Rodriguez M. In press. Screening for domestic violence among adult women in the United States. Journal of General Internal Medicine.
  Braslow JT, Duan N, Starks SL, Polo A, Bromley E, Wells KB. 2005. Generalizability of studies on mental health treatment and outcomes, 1981 to 1996. Psychiatric Services 56(10), 1261-1268. PMID: 16215192.
  Braslow JT, Starks SL. 2005. The making of contemporary American psychiatry, Part 2: Therapeutics and gender before and after World War II. History of Psychology 8(3), 271-288. PMID: 16217884.
  Starks SL, Braslow JT. 2005. The making of contemporary American psychiatry, Part 1: Patients, treatments, and therapeutic rationales before and after World War II. History of Psychology 8(2), 176-193. PMID: 15997488.
 

Braslow JT, Starks SL. 2004. Psychology and psychiatry. In The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, pp. 1958-64. Charles Scribners Sons.
  Braslow JT, Starks SL. 2003. Psychiatric science and therapeutics in the second half of the twentieth century. Paper prepared for the Institute of Medicine Committee on Incorporation of Research into Psychiatry Residency Training.