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

Vickie Chang , Mickey Trockel

Community & 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 

Web Site Links

• Behavioral Medicine

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

• Fresh Start Weight Loss Study No longer recruiting

Publications

• Binge drinking in women at risk for developing eating disorders. Khaylis A, Trockel M, Taylor CB. Int J Eat Disord. 2009; 42 (5): 409-14
• Does improving mood in depressed patients alter factors that may affect cardiovascular disease risk? Taylor CB, Conrad A, Wilhelm FH, Strachowski D, Khaylis A, Neri E, Giese-Davis J, Roth WT, Cooke JP, Kraemer H, Spiegel D. J Psychiatr Res. 2009; 43 (16): 1246-52
• Testing objective measures of motor impairment in early Parkinson's disease: Feasibility study of an at-home testing device. Goetz CG, Stebbins GT, Wolff D, DeLeeuw W, Bronte-Stewart H, Elble R, Hallett M, Nutt J, Ramig L, Sanger T, Wu AD, Kraus PH, Blasucci LM, Shamim EA, Sethi KD, Spielman J, Kubota K, Grove AS, Dishman E, Taylor CB. Mov Disord. 2009; 24 (4): 551-6
• Randomised controlled trial of a secondary prevention program for myocardial infarction patients ('ProActive Heart'): study protocol. Secondary prevention program for myocardial infarction patients. Hawkes AL, Atherton J, Taylor CB, Scuffham P, Eadie K, Miller NH, Oldenburg B. BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2009: 9 16
• AHA science advisory. Depression and coronary heart disease. Recommendations for screening, referral, and treatment. A science advisory from the American Heart Association Prevention Committee to the Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, and Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care Outcomes Research. Endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association. Lichtman JH, Bigger JT, Blumenthal JA, Frasure-Smith N, Kaufmann PG, Lespérance F, Mark DB, Sheps DS, Taylor CB, Froelicher ES. Prog Cardiovasc Nurs. 2009; 24 (1): 19-26