Faculty

Bio

An award-winning educator, Assistant Professor Jacquetta Blacker, MD, MA, joined the U following several years working for the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health System in Rochester and Austin, MN, as an assistant professor in psychiatry and a senior associate consultant. Dr. Blacker is board certified in both adult and child and adolescent psychiatry.Being at the University enables two goals for Dr. Blacker. "I want to work in clinical care with a population that has a universal shortage of healthcare providers," she explained. "Part of that is helping to strengthen inpatient services. The other part of my job is research. I want to dig into the huge data sets I have on suicide and use the resources at the U to look at post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and how it intersects with suicide. PTSD is complex – it's many different sequelae of real and perceived traumatic events." Dr. Blacker completed her general psychiatric residency and a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. A native of the United Kingdom, she completed MRCP Part 1 (Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians) at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Dr. Blacker earned her BMBCh (the equivalent of an MD) in medicine and surgery, and her Master of Arts and undergraduate degree in physiological sciences at Oxford University.She brings a wide range of experience to her work. "I have had broad exposure to all kinds of medical settings, from urban to rural, and to all kinds of socioeconomic groups," she said. "It helps me understand where a lot of people are coming from." Of the 18 articles that Dr. Blacker has had published in medical journals, she was first or senior author for 10. In addition, she has presented her work during several national and international medical meetings.When she has some spare time, she enjoys biking along Minneapolis parkways, working on home improvement projects, reading, and cooking.

Research Summary

Dr. Blacker's research interests include mood and anxiety disorders in medical-surgical populations, and suicide among medical professionals. Being part of a much larger institution that has many disciplines – and the opportunities that creates for doing cross-disciplinary work – is exciting to Blacker. "A lot of what I do is historical, looking at trends over time, how concepts have changed, how treatment has changed," she said. "Having access to specialists in history and statistics will really help move my research along." Dr. Blacker was co-investigator for three research grants, one looking at developing biomarkers that would lead to individualized treatments in bipolar patients with and without comorbid addiction; another used EEG to identify potential markers of suicidal behaviors in children between age 13-18; another examined biochemical and genetic differences in mood disorders.

Bio

I received a BA in child psychology here at the University of Minnesota. I received my MS from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where I also completed my PhD, both in clinical psychology. My clinical psychology internship was at Duke University Medical Center.I am a clinical psychologist with extensive experience as a service provider, supervisor, and researcher in mental health. My work over the past 30 years has also emphasized developing, implementing, and evaluating innovative mental health programs utilizing an implementation science approach. In addition, through a University of Minnesota consulting contract, I am concurrently the Chief Clinical Scientist for Praestan Health where I guide the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative behavioral health models that are supported by digital technologies and applied in real-world practice settings. I have published peer-reviewed journal articles with many as either first or last author, and written several books about youth mental health, effective intervention methods, and evidence-based practice. With 39 publications, 1224 citations and an h-index score of 14, my research and books have been widely disseminated.

Research Summary

Dr. Bloomquist has accumulated many years of research experience in collaboration with a team of prevention and intervention scientists. This included (1) evaluating the short- and long-term effects of school/community/clinic-based interventions for children with behavior and emotional disorders, (2) examining predictive variables and facilitative strategies related to parents engaging in prevention programming, (3) delineating and studying methods for enhancing and measuring program implementation in real world settings, (4) examining mediators and moderators of response to prevention programming, and (5) delineating child and parenting characteristics related to behavior disorders in children. His current research is examining youth and family stress associated with adolescent depression and translating and evaluating evidence-based mental health programming for use in real world health settings.

Clinical Summary

Dr. Bloomquist provides program consultation for intensive outpatient programming services for adolescent depression. He specializes in parent and family skills training (a.k.a. behavioral family therapy) for youth with behavior-emotional problems. As an author/co-author of several books, Dr. Bloomquist has written about effective intervention methods and evidence-based practice.

Bio

I completed my BSc (First Class), MD, and Residency in Psychiatry at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Canada. I was a Clinical Instructor (from 2004-2007) and Assistant Clinical Professor (from 2007-2013) at the University of British Columbia Mood Disorders Center in Vancouver, Canada. While at UBC, I also completed a PhD in Neuroscience. My PhD research involved using magnetic resonance brain imaging to investigate the relationship between obesity and brain illness progression in early-stage bipolar disorder. I joined the University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences as an Associate Professor in 2014.For the past 16 years, I have taught medical students, psychiatry residents, PhD students, and research fellows about the neurobiology, diagnosis, and treatment of bipolar disorder and associated conditions. My work focuses on the diagnosis and management of bipolar disorder, especially bipolar depression; early intervention in mood disorders; cardiovascular risk factors as predictors of neuroprogression in bipolar disorder, and the causal modelling of symptom networks in bipolar disorder.I have co-authored a number of treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder. I have published 77 peer-reviewed articles with most as first or last author, have close to 4000 citations, and an h-index of 28. I have delivered presentations both nationally and internationally at over 120 conferences.Within the department, I am a member of the Grand Rounds Committee . I am also a member of the UMP Compliance and Risk Management Committee , and the Strategic Planning Committee .

Research Summary

Dr. Bond's research interests include: Genetics of bipolar disorder (BD) Diagnostic tests for BD The relationship between body health and brain health in people with BD Cognitive functioning in BD The optimal use of medications in BD

Clinical Summary

Dr. Bond's clinical interests include the treatment of bipolar depression and the diagnosis and treatment of additional psychiatric conditions in people with bipolar disorder (e.g. anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder). He has also co-authored a number of treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder.

Clinical Summary

Addiction; Schizophrenia

Clinical Summary

Psychosomatic medicine; Delirium management

Bio

Dr. Mo Chen is the Manager of the Non-invasive Neuromodulation Laboratory and a Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his B.S and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University and finished Postdoctoral research training in the Brain Plasticity Laboratory at University of Minnesota. His research interests are 1. investigating the mechanism and effectiveness of non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), repetitive TMS (rTMS), transcranial current stimulation (tDCS, tACS, tRNS, tPCS), paired associative stimulation (PAS).. etc. 2. Combining neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance image, fMRI, resting-state fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging, DTI) and neuromodulation techniques to investigate pathophysiology of neurological and psychiatric disorders, e.g. Focal Dystonia, Spasmodic Dysphonia and Stroke. 3. Using neuromodulation techniques as a treatment to neurological or psychiatric disorders.