C. Barr Taylor

Clinical Focus

• Psychiatry
• Anxiety Disorders
• Behavioral Medicine
• Eating Disorders

Administrative Appointments

• Adult Residency Training Director, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical Center (1995 - present)

Honors and Awards

• Member (natural Sciences), The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (2002)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Vandana Aspen,  Aaron Fisher

Community and International Work

• Developing Evidence Based Medicine/Electronic Interventions 
• Comprehensive Health Promotion/Prevention in High School and College Studies 
• MoodCare 
• Preventing Anorexia Nervosa 
• Preventing Eating Disorders and Comorbid Conditions 

Internet Links

• Behavioral Medicine

Current Research Interests

Dr. Taylor is developing and evaluating innovative electronic and computer-assisted programs to make treatments, proven effective for treating various lifestyle and psychosocial problems, more cost-effective and available. Research projects include the evaluation and development of computer-assisted and other innovative treatments for panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, social phobia, depression, eating disorders and cardiovascular risk-reduction. Related studies focus on the nature of anxiety and eating disorders.

Dr. Taylor is also developing prevention programs for eating disorders and obesity in college-aged women and in older adolescents. Having identifed risk factors for eating disorders, he is developing and evaluating interactive multimedia interventions assisted with electronic groups and other technologies to help prevent the onset of disorders in high-risk populations. His research group has developed population-based interventions for eating disorders, obesity and healthy weight regulation so that individualized programs can be offered to all participants simultaneously within defined populations.

Studies in this research group have demonstrated the efficacy and effectiveness of an inpatient tobacco use cessation program and have demonstrated methods and models for dissemination/implementation in a variety of hospitals.

Clinical Trials

• PTSD Coach App Evaluation Recruiting
• Fresh Start Weight Loss Study No longer recruiting

Publications

• Depressive symptom dimensions and cardiac prognosis following myocardial infarction: results from the ENRICHD clinical trial. Bekke-Hansen S, Trockel M, Burg MM, Taylor CB. Psychol Med. 2012; 42 (1): 51-60
• Family-based Early Intervention for Anorexia Nervosa. Jones M, Völker U, Lock J, Taylor CB, Jacobi C. Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2012
• Impact of depression treatment on mental and physical health-related quality of life of cardiac patients: a meta-analysis. O'Neil A, Sanderson K, Oldenburg B, Taylor CB. J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev. 2011 May-Jun; 31 (3): 146-56
• A randomised, feasibility trial of a tele-health intervention for acute coronary syndrome patients with depression ('MoodCare'): study protocol. O'Neil A, Hawkes AL, Chan B, Sanderson K, Forbes A, Hollingsworth B, Atherton J, Hare DL, Jelinek M, Eadie K, Taylor CB, Oldenburg B. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2011: 11 8
• Social Support for Healthy Behaviors: Scale Psychometrics and Prediction of Weight Loss Among Women in a Behavioral Program. Kiernan M, Moore SD, Schoffman DE, Lee K, King AC, Taylor CB, Kiernan NE, Perri MG. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011