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Mary Ellen Mackesy‐Amiti

University of Illinois Chicago · US
Area of research
Epidemiology · Infectious Diseases
Research interest
Research focused on Psychiatry and Health psychology, with related work in Demography, Injection drug use, Men who have sex with men. Notable publications include 'Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among young injection drug users', 'Depression, substance use and HIV risk in a probability sample of men who have sex with men', and 'Improved Virologic Suppression With HIV Subspecialty Care in a Large Prison System Using Telemedicine: An Observational Study With Historical Controls'.
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849
works
26
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Recent publications

Agent-Based Model of Combined Community- and Jail-Based Take-Home Naloxone Distribution
JAMA Network Open 2024cited by 10position: middledoi
HIV knowledge, self-perception of HIV risk, and sexual risk behaviors among male Tajik labor migrants who inject drugs in Moscow
BMC Public Health 2024cited by 9position: lastdoi
Validated method for the analysis of 22 illicit drugs and their metabolites via liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) in illicit drug samples collected in Chicago, IL
Forensic Chemistry 2023cited by 31position: middledoi
Current attitudes toward drug checking services and a comparison of expected with actual drugs present in street drug samples collected from opioid users
Harm Reduction Journal 2023cited by 29position: middledoi
Community-, network-, and individual-level predictors of uptake of medication for opioid use disorder among young people who inject drugs and their networks: A multilevel analysis
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2023cited by 14position: middledoi
Feasibility study of using mobile phone-based experience sampling to assess drug checking by opioid street drug users
Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2023cited by 13position: middledoi
A Novel Index Measure of Housing-Related Risk as a Predictor of Overdose Among Young People Who Inject Drugs and Injection Networks
Journal of Urban Health 2023cited by 6position: middledoi
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area
International Journal of Drug Policy 2023cited by 5position: middledoi
People who inject drugs in metropolitan Chicago: A meta-analysis of data from 1997-2017 to inform interventions and computational modeling toward hepatitis C microelimination
PLoS ONE 2022cited by 18position: middledoi
Economic Challenges and Behavioral and Mental Health Risks for Overdose during the COVID-19 Pandemic among People Who Inject Drugs
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2022cited by 17position: middledoi
Egocentric network characteristics of people who inject drugs in the Chicago metro area and associations with hepatitis C virus and injection risk behavior
Harm Reduction Journal 2022cited by 11position: firstdoi
Trends in homelessness and injection practices among young urban and suburban people who inject drugs: 1997-2017
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2021cited by 36position: middledoi
Syringe service program-based telemedicine linkage to opioid use disorder treatment: protocol for the STAMINA randomized control trial
BMC Public Health 2021cited by 27position: middledoi
Drug use-related stigma, safer injection norms, and hepatitis C infection among a network-based sample of young people who inject drugs
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2021cited by 19position: middledoi
Virological Non-suppression and Its Correlates Among Adolescents and Young People Living with HIV in Southern Malawi
AIDS and Behavior 2018cited by 65position: lastdoi
Feasibility of ecological momentary assessment to study mood and risk behavior among young people who inject drugs
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2018cited by 43position: firstdoi
Sexual risk among African American girls seeking psychiatric care: A social-personal framework.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 2018cited by 19position: middledoi
The role of social networks and geography on risky injection behaviors of young persons who inject drugs
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2015cited by 48position: middledoi
Improved Virologic Suppression With HIV Subspecialty Care in a Large Prison System Using Telemedicine: An Observational Study With Historical Controls
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2014cited by 73position: middledoi
Prescription opioid misuse and mental health among young injection drug users
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 2014cited by 49position: firstdoi
HIV-Risk Reduction with Juvenile Offenders on Probation
Journal of Child and Family Studies 2014cited by 22position: middledoi
Transitions in Latent Classes of Sexual Risk Behavior Among Young Injection Drug Users Following HIV Prevention Intervention
AIDS and Behavior 2013cited by 13position: firstdoi
Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among young injection drug users
Drug and Alcohol Dependence 2012cited by 119position: firstdoi
Depression, substance use and HIV risk in a probability sample of men who have sex with men
Addictive Behaviors 2012cited by 86position: lastdoi
Peer-Education Intervention to Reduce Injection Risk Behaviors Benefits High-Risk Young Injection Drug Users: A Latent Transition Analysis of the CIDUS 3/DUIT Study
AIDS and Behavior 2012cited by 47position: firstdoi
Sexual Risk Behavior Associated with Transition to Injection Among Young Non-Injecting Heroin Users
AIDS and Behavior 2012cited by 20position: firstdoi

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Frequent collaborators

Basmattee Boodram · University of Illinois Chicago11 papers (2012–2024)Lawrence J. Ouellet · University of Illinois Chicago6 papers (2012–2014)Leslie D. Williams · New York University6 papers (2021–2023)Carl A. Latkin · Johns Hopkins University5 papers (2015–2023)Geri R. Donenberg · University of Illinois Chicago5 papers (2012–2018)Antonio D. Jimenez · University of Illinois Chicago4 papers (2021–2023)James A. Swartz · University of Illinois Chicago4 papers (2021–2023)Eunhye Lee · University of Illinois Chicago3 papers (2022–2023)Elizabeth Prete · University of Illinois Chicago3 papers (2023–2023)Maggie Kaufmann · University of Illinois Chicago3 papers (2022–2023)Lisa Robison-Taylor · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign3 papers (2021–2023)Richard S. Garfein · University of California, San Diego2 papers (2012–2013)Judith A. Levy · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2018–2024)Charlie Kaplan · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2022–2023)Lorna Finnegan · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2012–2013)Marya Lieberman · University of Notre Dame2 papers (2023–2023)Juliet Piñeros · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2023–2023)Elizabeth T. Golub · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2012–2013)Erin Emerson · University of Illinois Chicago2 papers (2014–2018)Kathleen L. Hayes · University of Notre Dame2 papers (2023–2023)