Kaimana S MacDonald MD

Addiction

Private Practice

3368 2nd AveSte BSan Diego, CA 92103
Phone+1 619-203-7393
Fax+1 619-296-0199

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Education & Training

University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry/Family Medicine, 1997 - 2002
University of Minnesota Medical SchoolClass of 1997
St. Johns UniversityB.S., Biology, Valedictorian, 1988 - 1992

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1999 - 2028
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
American Board of Preventive Medicine Addiction Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Faculty of the Year Award UCSD PACE (Physician Assessment and Clinical Education), 2014
Top Doctors:San Diego Area Castle Connolly, 2013
Top Doctors:Southern California Castle Connolly, 2012

Clinical Trials

Oxytocin Add-on for Stable Depressed Patients
TERMINATED
NA
Oxytocin in Opiate Dependence: A Pilot Study of the Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Emotional Processes and Stress Responses in Patients With Opiate Dependence
UNKNOWN
PHASE1

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

8 citations
WHY NOT POT?: A Review of the Brain-based Risks of Cannabis
Kai MacDonald, Katherine Pappas
Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience. 2016-04-01
89 citations
A Review of Oxytocin’s Effects on the Positive, Negative, and Cognitive Domains of Schizophrenia
David Feifel, Paul D. Shilling, Kai MacDonald
Biological Psychiatry. 2016-02-01
251 citations
Minimization of childhood maltreatment is common and consequential: results from a large, multinational sample using the childhood trauma questionnaire
Kai MacDonald, Michael L. Thomas, Andres F Sciolla, Beacher Schneider, Katherine Pappas
Plos One. 2016-01-27

Journal Articles

Minimization of Childhood Maltreatment Is Common and Consequential: Results from a Large, Multinational Sample Using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
MacDonald, K., Thomas, M. L., Sciolla, A. F., Schneider, B., Pappas, K., Bleijenberg, G., . . . Wingenfeld, K., PloS one, 1/1/2016
Buprenorphine Maintenance Treatment of Opiate Dependence: Correlations Between Prescriber Beliefs and Practices
MacDonald, K., Lamb, K., Thomas, M. L., & Khentigan, W., Substance Use & Misuse, 1/1/2016
Corrigendum to “Individual risk factors for physician boundary violations: the role of attachment style, childhood trauma, and maladaptive beliefs
MacDonald, K., Andres F. Sciolla, David Folsom, David Bazzo, Chris Searles, Christine Moutier, Michael L. Thomas, Katherine Borton, Bill Norcross, Gen Hosp Psychiatry, 1/1/2015

Books/Book Chapters

Oxytocin. Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology.
Feifel, D. and K. MacDonaldEditors: I. P. Stolerman and L. H. Price.Springer, Heidelberg, Germany2014

Lectures

Family Medicine Update
1/27/2014
Physician Fitness for Duty Psychiatry Examination
1/19/2014
Collateral Damage: The Opiate Epidemic, Opiate Dependence, and the Role of Buprenorphine in Treatment.
1/1/2014