Yih-ing Hser
Professor-in-Residence, UCLA Dept. of Psychiatry & Behaviorial Science
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Biography/Research
Dr. Yih-Ing Hser is Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and the Director of the Center for Advancing Longitudinal Drug Abuse Research. As a trained quantitative psychologist, she has extensive experience in health services research, treatment evaluation, and long-term follow-up research, derived from her prior and ongoing research projects. She has been conducting research in the field of substance abuse and its treatment since 1980 and has extensive experience in research design and advanced statistical techniques applied to substance abuse data. In addition to gender-related issues in substance abuse and treatment, Dr. Hser has published in the areas of treatment evaluation, epidemiology, natural history of drug addiction, and innovative statistical modeling development and application.
Education
National Taiwan University, B.S., Psychology, 1976
University of Texas at El Paso, M.A., Experimental Psychology, 1979
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, 1986
Publications
- Hser, Y., Huang, Y., Teruya, C., & Anglin, M.D. (2004). Diversity of drug abuse treatment utilization patterns and outcomes. Evaluation and Program Planning, 27(3), 309-319.
- Hser, Y., Huang, Y., Teruya, C., & Anglin, M.D. (2004). Gender differences in treatment outcomes over a three-year period: A path model analysis. Journal of Drug Issues, 34(2), 419-440.
- Farabee, D., Hser, T., Anglin, M.D., & Huang, Y. (2004). Recidivism among an early cohort of California’s Proposition 36 offenders. Criminology & Public Policy, 3(4), 563-584.
- Hser, Y., Evans, E., & Huang, Y. (2005). Treatment outcomes among women and men methamphetamine abusers in California. Journal of substance abuse treatment, 28(1), 77-85.
- Hser, Y., Longshore, D., Brecht, L., & Anglin, M.D. (2005). Studying the natural history of drug use. In Slobada, Z. (Ed.), Epidemiology of Drug Abuse. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, N.Y., 29-43.
- Ettner, S.L., Huang, D., Evans, E., Ash, D.R., Hardy, M., Jourabchi, M., & Hser, Y. (2006). Benefit-cost in the California Outcome Project (CalTOP): Does substance abuse treatment ‘pay for iteself’? Health Services Research, 41(1), 192-213.
- Evans, E., Spear, S., Huang, Y., & Hser, Y. (2006). Outcomes of Drug and Alcohol Treatment Programs Among American Indians in California. American Journal of Public Health, 96(5), 1-8.
- Hser, Y., Stark, M.E., Paredes, A., Huang, D., Anglin, M.D., & Rawson, R. (2006). A 12-year follow-up of a treated cocaine-dependent sample. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 30, 219-226.
- Hser, Y. I., Grella, C., Evans, E., & Huang, Y. C. (2006). Utilization and outcomes of mental health services among patients in drug treatment. Journal of Addictive Diseases, 25(1), 73-85.
- Teruya, C., Hardy, M., E., Hser, Y., & Evans, E. (2006). Implementation of a statewide outcome monitoring system: Lessons learned from substance abuse treatment provider staff. Qualitative Health Research, 16, 337-352.
