Anthony Mascola
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
Psychiatry Department 401 Quarry Rd MC 5722 Stanford, CA 94305 Tel Work (650) 725-5857 Fax (650) 723-9807
- Academic Offices
Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Psychiatry
- Behavioral Medicine
Administrative Appointments
- Medical Director, Ongoing Education and Evidence Based Practices, Stanford University (2011 - present)
Honors and Awards
- Excellence in Teaching Recognition, Stanford University School of Medicine (2009)
- Dr. George Gulevich Award honoring humanistic values and excellence in patient care, Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (2004)
- Graduate Recognition Award for excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service, University of Southern California (2000)
- George Herron Memorial Award, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (2000)
- Provost's Honors, University of California San Diego (1989-1994)
- Skull and Dagger Honor Society, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (2000)
Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
I hope to compassionately and effectively promote health and well being through better
understanding of the interaction between environmental, biological and psychological factors
influencing decision making and self regulation. Complex behavioral problems can be viewed
through the lens of the basic sciences, including the psychological sciences of decision theory
and motivation, recently organized under a framework described as behavioral economics. I
have been employing conceptual models and interventions derived from decision theory, the
motivation literature and especially a unique model from behavioral economics known as the
Intertemporal Bargaining Model to diverse, important problems in my clinical, educational and
research efforts. I have applied this framework in efforts ranging from the promotion of
healthy levels of physical activity, healthy body weight / composition, better quality sleep,
healthy emotion regulation, improved mentoring and parenting practices, improved community
preparedness and disaster response, as well as in promoting more effective clinical decision
making, evidence based practices and well-being in physicians. I hope through these efforts to
better empower individuals, mentors and those who influence our shared environment (self,
parents, teachers, doctors, work supervisors, government officials etc) with effective
strategies for the promotion of wise, value concordant, autonomous decision making
associated with good long term quality of life and healthful outcomes.
Publications
- Applying Behavioral Economic Modeling in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety Disorders Submitted for Review.
- Behavioral Economic Conceptualization in Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine: exciting theoretical ground to promote dissemination of empirically supported Psychosocial interventions Submitted for Review.
- Picky eating during childhood: a longitudinal study to age 11 years. Eat Behav. 2010; (4): 253-7
- Framing physical activity as a distinct and uniquely valuable behavior independent of weight management: a pilot randomized controlled trial for overweight and obese sedentary persons. Eat Weight Disord. 2009 Jun-Sep; (2-3): e148-52
- Guided mentorship in evidence-based medicine for psychiatry: a pilot cohort study supporting a promising method of real-time clinical instruction. Acad Psychiatry. 2008 Nov-Dec; (6): 475-83
- Encouraging Physical Activity Among Overweight Patients as the Main Outcome of Treatment: A Pilot RCT Society of Behavioral Medicine, 27th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions. 2006
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