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W. Ladson Hinton, M.D.

W. Ladson Hinton

Clinical/Research Interests

W. Ladson Hinton is studying the role of family and psychosocial factors in cognitive impairment among Latino elders in Sacramento. He also has published several articles on Vietnamese refugee mental health and written 14 articles and book chapters.

Title:

Professor

Specialty:

Psychiatry

Address:

Psychiatry
2230 Stockton Blvd.
Sacramento, CA 95817

Phone:

(916) 734-3485

Education:

Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
M.D. 1985

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California
B.A. 1981

Internships:

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
1985-86
Psychiatry

Residency:

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
1986-89
Psychiatry

Fellowships:

Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
1991-93
Social Medicine

Board Certifications:

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Geriatric Psychiatry, 2007
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1992

Professional Memberships:

American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
Gerontological Society of America

Select Recent Publications:

Seritan AL., McCloud MK, Hinton L. Geriatric Depression - Review for Primary Care Geriatric Depression: Review for Primary Care. Current Psychiatry Reviews, 5 (2), 137-142, 2009

Hinton L, Hagar Y, West N, Gonzalez H, Mungas D, Beckett LA, Haan MN. Influence of spousal depression on cognitive functioning in Latino spousal pairs. Dementia Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 27 (6), 491-500, 2009

Hinton L, Chambers D., Valásquez A. Making sense of behavioral distrubances in person with dementia: Latino family caregiver attributions of Neuropsychiatric Inventory domains. Alzheimer's Disease and Associated Disorders, doi: 10.1097/WAD.0b013e3181a6bc21, 2009

Hinton L, Tran J, Tran C, Hinton D. Religious and spiritual dimensions of the Vietnamese dementia caregiving experience, Hallym International Journal of Aging, 10(2):139-160, 2008

Hinton L, Franz CE, Reddy G., Flores YG, Kravitz RL, Barker JC. Practice constraints, behavioral problems, and dementia care: Primary care physicians' perspectives. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 22 (11):1487-1492, 2007

González HM, Hinton L, Haan MN, Ortiz T. Antidepressant Class and Dosing Among Older Mexican Americans: Application of Geropsychiatric Treatment Guidelines. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(1):79-83, 2006

Hinton L, Flores Y, Franz C, Hernandez I, Mitteness LS. The Borderlands of Primary Care: Family and Primary Care Physician Perspectives on “Troublesome” Behaviors of People with Dementia. In A Leibing and L Cohen (eds), Thinking about Dementia - Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility. New Brunswick; Rutgers University Press, p. 43-63, 2006

Hinton L, Zweifach M, Oishi S, Unützer J. Gender disparities in the treatment of late-life depression: qualitative and quantitative findings from the IMPACT Trial. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 14:884-922, 2006

Hinton L, Franz C, Yeo G, Levkoff S. Conceptions of dementia in a multi-ethnic sample of family caregivers. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 53:1405, 2005

Gallagher-Thompson D, Hargrave R, Hinton WL, Arean P, Iwamasa G, Zeiss LM: Interventions for a Multicultural Society. In: Coon, D.W., Gallagher-Thompson, D., Thompson LW. Innovative Interventions to Reduce Dementia Caregiver Distress: A Clinical Guide. 2003, Springer Publishing Company: NY, pp. 50-73.

To see if W. Ladson Hinton is accepting new patients, or for assistance finding a UC Davis doctor, please call (800) 2-UC DAVIS.