Ronald D. Serota, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Serota

833 Chestnut Street, Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-2542
(215) 503-2850 (fax)

Medical School
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA (1968)

Residency
Internal Medicine, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, CA (1970)
Internal Medicine, University of Oregon, Portland, OR (1973)
Psychiatry, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (1981)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
Added Qualifications in Addiction Psychiatry

University Appointment
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Addiction Psychiatry

Publications

1. The effect of therapist/patient race- and sex-matching in individual treatment
2. Correlates of employment: A cohort study
3. A therapeutic use of the methadone fluvoxamine drug interaction
4. Therapist/patient race and sex matching: Treatment retention and 9-month follow-up outcome
5. A randomized controlled study of the effectiveness of intensive outpatient treatment for cocaine dependence
6. Characteristics of cocaine-addicted individuals who abuse their partners
7. Patient treatment choice and compliance: Data from a substance abuse treatment program
8. Learned helplessness and cocaine dependence: An investigation
9. Phenobarbital vs. clonazepam in the outpatient sedative detoxification of methadone-maintained patients
10. Prediction of length of stay in an inpatient dual diagnosis unit
11. Gender differences and similarities in African-American crack cocaine abusers
12. Predicting compliance of dual diagnosis inpatients with aftercare treatment
13. AIDS and cocaine: A deadly combination facing the primary care physician