Haftan Michael Eckholdt
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Yeshiva University
Rose Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development
Division of Biometry - KC923
1410 Pelham Parkway South
Bronx, New York 10461
voice: (718) 430-2427 email: eckholdt@aecom.yu.edu fax: (718) 430-8943
Education
1997 M.S. Biostatistics Columbia University School of Public Health; New York, NY
1994 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology Cornell University; Ithaca, NY
Ecological prediction of HIV sex risk behaviors among
African American and Latino adolescents in an aids epicenter
1990 M.A. Developmental Psychology Cornell University; Ithaca, NY
Age differences in voice memory
1987 B.A. Psychology Emory University; Atlanta, GA
Professional Employment
1998-present Adjunct Asst Prof Psychology, Yeshiva College; New York, NY
1997-present Assistant Professor Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Bronx, NY
1994-1997 Assistant Professor Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School (NJMS); Newark, NJ
1993-1996 Director Information Technologies, Psychiatry, NJMS; Newark, NJ
1990-1994 Pre Doctoral Fellow Psychiatry, NJMS; Newark, NJ
Teaching Experience
1999 Statistics Yeshiva College, New York, NY
1999 Experimental Methods Yeshiva College, New York, NY
1998 Psychometrics Yeshiva College, New York, NY
1994-1997 Statistics UMDNJ-Biomedical Science; Newark, NJ
1992-1995 Sexual Minorities Cornell University; New York, NY(TA)
1990-1997 Statistics UMDNJ-NJMS, Psychiatry; Newark, NJ
1988-1989 Adolescence Cornell University; Ithaca, NY(TA)
1988 Infancy Cornell University; Ithaca, NY (TA)
1987 Aging Cornell University; Ithaca, NY (TA)
Appointments
Peer Review
1997-present book AIDS Education and Prevention
1997-present manuscript Journal of Adolescent Health
1996-present manuscript Journal of Sex Research
1995-present manuscript AIDS Education and Prevention
Research Grants Received
Principal Investigator
1988-1989 Cornell University College of Human Ecology $ 1,000 Development of Memory for Human Voices: implications for adolescents as earwitness
1988-1989 Cornell University College of Human Ecology $ 200 Development of Memory for Human Voices: implications for adolescents as earwitness
Investigator
Athena Neurosciences, Inc. n/a
Bioequivalence of Efficacy and Diffusion of Neurobloc
1998-2001 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $350,000
Urban American Indian Identity, Alcohol Use, and HIV Risk
1998-2003 National Institute of Aging $ 9,500,000
Einstein Aging Project
1994-1999 National Institute of Aging $ 2,500,000
Gynecologic Impact of the Menopausal Transition
1996-1997 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists $ 10,000
Hormones, Sleep Architecture and Sleep Disorders in Midlife Women
1995-1996 American Massage Association $ 10,000
Immunology of Massage
1994-1999 National Institute of Aging $ 150,000
Hormonal Changes of the Menopausal Transition
1994-1999 National Institute of Health $ 2,500,000
Center for Alternative Medicine
1994-1999 National Institute of Aging $ 250,000
Psychiatric History as Predictors of the Menopausal Transition
1994-1999 National Institute of Health (NIH) $ 350,000
Immunity and Health among Inner City Children
1993-1994 UMDNJ Foundation $ 25,000
Oral Pathology among Alcoholics and Addicts
1991-1994 NIH & Centers for Disease Control $ 4,900,000
Mental Health HIV/AIDS Training Grant
1991-1992 UMDNJ Foundation $ 25,000
Fire Setting Behaviors among Children
1990-1995 National Institute of Health $ 2,100,000
Immunity and Health among Inner City Alcoholics
1990-1991 American Dental Association $ 31,000
Development of Evaluation of Clinical Practice
1988-1992 National Institute of Health $ 2,100,000
Adolescent Immunology and Health
Professional Affiliation
1994-present American Statistical Association
1994-1998 American Psychological Society
1994-1995 Biometric Society
1994-1995 Society for Research on Adolescence
Publications
Manuscripts
Buschke, H., Kuslansky, G., Katz, M., Stewart, W., Sliwinski, M., Eckholdt, H., and Lipton, R. (in press). Screening for dementia with the Memory Impairment Screen (MIS). Neurology.
Eckholdt, H., Harris, C., and Gubiseh-Ayala, D. (in press). Developing and Evaluating HIV Education Workshops Among Native Americans in New York City. American Indian & Alaska Native Mental Health Research.
Miller, R., Klotz, D., and Eckholdt, H. (1998) HIV prevention with Male prostitutes: replication of an HIV preventive intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology, 26(1), 97-131.
Eckholdt, H., Chin, J., Manzon, J. and Kim, D. (1997). The needs of Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV in New York City. AIDS Education and Prevention, 9(6), 491-502.
Eckholdt, H. and Chin, J. (1997). Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in Asians and Pacific Islanders [brief report]. Clinical Infectious Disease, 24, 1265-1266.
Hymowitz, N. and Eckholdt, H. (1996). Effects of a 2.5 mg Silver Acetate Lozenge on Initial and Long-Term Smoking Cessation. Preventive Medicine, 25, 537-546.
Schleifer, S.J., Keller, S.E., Bartlett, J.A., Eckholdt, H.M. and Delaney, B.R. (1996). Immunity in young adults with major depressive disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153, 477-482.
Hymowitz, N., Jackson, J., Carter, R., and Eckholdt, H. (1996). Past quit smoking assistance and Doctors' advice for white and African-American smokers. Journal of the National Medical Association, 88(3), 1-4.
Schleifer, S.J., Keller, S.E., LaFarge, S., Dhaibar, Y.R., Shiflett, S.C., Eckholdt, H.M. (1996). HIV-1 infection in an inner city alcohol treatment program. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 20(1), 75-80.
Hymowitz, N., Mouton, C. and Eckholdt, H. (1995). Menthol cigarette smoking in African Americans and Whites [letter]. Tobacco Control, 4(2), 194-195.
Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J., Cohen, J., Keller, S.E. (1994). Controlling for Day to Day Laboratory Variance [letter]. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 8(4), 372-373.
Saporito, R.A., Feldman, C.A., Stewart, D.C.L., Buchanan, R.N., and Eckholdt, H. (1994) Impact of Quality Assurance Program Providing Practice Assessment. Journal of the American Dental Association, 125, 622-633.
Schleifer, S.J., Eckholdt, H.M., Cohen, J., & Keller, S.E. (1993). Controlling for Day to Day Laboratory Variance in Repeated Measures Psychoimmunologic Studies. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity, 7, 243-252.
Eckholdt, H.M., & Lenzenweger, M.F. (1990). Premorbid adult social competence, socioeconomic status, and psychopathology [brief report]. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 178(2), 139-140.
Monographs, Chapters, and Reviews
Eckholdt, H. (1998). Hidden in the Blood: A personal investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan, by Carter Wilson. [book review] AIDS Education and Prevention, 10(2), 197-198.
Kennedy, C.A. and Eckholdt, H.M. (1998). AIDS Diagnoses in US Adolescents (1981-1993): The future arrives. In Lorraine Sherr (Ed.). AIDS and Adolescents. Harwood Academic Publishers: Reading, UK. chap. 4.
Bartlett, J.A., Keller, S.E., Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J. (1995). AIDS relevant issues for heterosexual adolescents. In N. Boyd-Franklin, G.R. Stein, M. Boland (Eds.). Children, Familiy & AIDS. Guilford Press: New York. chap. 5.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1994). Ecological prediction of hiv sex risk behaviors among African American and Latino adolescents in an aids epicenter. Dissertation Abstracts International, 55-04B, (UnM) AAI9422844.
Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J., Cohen, J., & Keller, S.E. (1992). Controlling for Day to Day Laboratory Variance in Repeated Measures Psychoimmunologic Studies. Statistics in Medicine, 11(14/15), 2035-2036.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1990). Age differences in earwitness memory. Master's Thesis. Cornell University: Ithaca, New York.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1990). Defining the lesbian and gay family: identities and communities as resources. In C. Rinne (Ed.) Proceedings of the 1990 Edward F. Kelly Evaluation Conference. Cornell University: Ithaca, New York, 133-142.
Conference Papers
Eckholdt, H., Brown, L., Smith, D. and Feldman, S. (1998). Revealing Structure-Function patterns in the Basal Ganglia: Animating autoradiographic maps. Society for Neuroscience. November 1998: Los Angeles, California.
Eckholdt, H., Harris, C., & Gubiseh-Ayala, D. (1995). Developing and Evaluating HIV Education Workshops Among Native Americans in New York City. HIV-Care Models for American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians: Community and Provider Perspectives. Berkeley, California.
Motta-Moraes, A. & Eckholdt, H. (1994). Relationships with peers and partners and HIV risk-taking behaviors among male young adults. American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.
Eckholdt, H. (1994). Analysis of partial variance: a powerful technique to reduce error variance in immunological assays. Research Society on Alcoholism. Maui, Hawaii.
Hymowitz, N. Jackson, J., & Eckholdt, H. (1994). Physician and programmatic assistance for stopping smoking in the past in White and African American male and female smokers. National Conference on Psychosocial and Behavioral Factors in Women's Health. Washington, D.C.
Chin, J., Eckholdt, H., & Lee, Y. (1994). Assessing the Needs of Asians and Pacific Islanders Living with HIV. Eleventh national Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Eckholdt, H., & Miller, R.L. (1993). Expanding evaluation methodologies: A community based HIV risk reduction intervention with male prostitutes. American Evaluation Association. Dallas, Texas.
Kaplan, G., Serrano, M., & Eckholdt, H. (1993). Fire setting behavior in Hispanic children. 8th Hispanic Medical Congress. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Eckholdt, H. (1993). Epidemiology of AIDS among Asians and Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and Unknowns: The CDC's efforts to distribute data. National Asian/Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Leadership Forum: A Question of Parity. Los Angeles, California.
Schleifer, S.J., Keller, S.E., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1993). Immunity in Inner City Alcoholics. Winter Conference on Brain Research. Vancouver, Canada.
Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., Bartlett, J.A., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1992). Health Consequences of Affective Processes and Immune Dysfunction. International Congress of Immunology. Budapest, Hungary.
Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., Bartlett, J.A., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1992). Affective Processes and Immune Dysfunction Have Health Consequences. Quality of Life and HIV Infection. Amsterdam, Holland.
Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J., Keller, S.E., & Bartlett, J.A. (1991). Sex Risk Among Inner City Adolescents as a Function of Information About AIDS. American College of Epidemiology. Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1990). Defining the lesbian and gay family: identities and communities as resources. Edward F. Kelly Evaluation Conference. Ithaca, New York.
Conference Posters
Eckholdt, H., Harris, C., and Elm, C. HIV Education in Native North American Communities: Assessing geographic and cultural distances. 12th World AIDS Conference. Summer 1998: Geneva, Switzerland.
Hymowitz, N, Schwab, J., and Eckholdt, H. Pediatric Residency Training on Tobacco. Fifth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine. August 1998: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eckholdt, H., Harris, C., and Elm, C. Evaluating HIV Education Efforts in Four Native American Community Settings. Fifth International Congress of Behavioral Medicine. August 1998: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Eckholdt, H., Chin, J., Harris, C., and Kim, D. Total AIDS Indicator Infections in the United States, 1981-1994: Focusing Health Care and Needs for People with AIDS. (1998) 12th World AIDS Conference. Geneva, Switzerland.
Eckholdt, H., Shiflett, S., Shleifer, S., Bartlett, J., and Keller, S. (1997). Immune effects of sex behavior. 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. San Francisco, California.
Eckholdt, H. and Harris, C. (1996). Trends in HIV services for Native Americans in urban settings. XI International Conference on AIDS. Vancouver, Canada.
Eckholdt, H.M., Chin, J.J., and Manzon, J. (1994). Challenges of addressing needs of Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV in New York City. Tenth International Conference on AIDS. Yokohama, Japan.
Feldman, C.A., Stewart, D.C.L., Saporito, R.A., & Eckholdt, H. (1994). Structure and process correlations in a self-assessment quality assurance instrument. International Association of Dental Research. Seattle, Washington.
Miller, R., Klotz, D., Bratholt, K.W., Eckholdt, H., Fredrick, R., Grogan, A., Johnson, B., Lunievicz, J., Manalansan, M. (1993). The Hustler Project: A community level HIV prevention intervention. Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association. Toronto, Canada.
Miller, R., Klotz, D., Bratholt, K., Eckholdt, H., Fredrick, R., Grogan, A., Johnson, B., Kosciw, J., Lunievicz, J., & Manalansan, M. (1993a). Comparison of the effect of an educational intervention on male prostitutes, their customers and their peers in New York City. International Conference on AIDS. Berlin, Germany.
Miller, R., Klotz, D., Bratholt, K., Eckholdt, H., Fredrick, R., Grogan, A., Johnson, B., Kosciw, J., Lunievicz, J., & Manalansan, M. (1993b). HIV prevention with Latino male hustlers. Society for Community Research and Action. Williamsburg, Virginia.
Schleifer, S.J., LaFarge, S., Eckholdt, H.M. & Keller, S.E. (1993). Substance Abuse and Immunity: Alcohol and Cocaine Effects. Research Perspectives in Psychoneuroimmunology IV. Boulder, Colorado.
Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., Bartlett, J.A., & Eckholdt, H. (1993). Affective Processes and Immune Dysfunction Have Health Consequences. International Society of Neuro Immuno Modulation. Salerno, Italy.
Stewart, D.C.L., Feldman, C.A., Saporito, R.A., Eckholdt, H., & Buchanan, R.N. (1992). In-Office Quality Assessment: Practitioner and Evaluator Agreement. International Association of Dental Research. Chicago, Illinois.
Bartlett, J.A., Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1992). Clinical Implications of PNI findings in Adolescents. International Congress of Psychosocial Oncology. Bordeaux, France.
Putcha, V., Kahn, M., Litimver, E., Alter, C., Maher, J., & Eckholdt, H. (1992). Psychological Distress of IVDU's with HIV Disease. Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association. Washington, D.C.
Eckholdt, H.M., Bartlett, J.A., DaSilva, J.M., Schleifer, S.J., & Keller, S.E. (1992). Risky Sex Predicted by Past Pregnancy and STD's. Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association. Washington, D.C.
Bartlett, J., Schleifer, S., Eckholdt, H., Demetrikopoulos, M., Keller, S. (1992). Stress and Immunity in Adolescents. Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association. Washington, D.C.
Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., Bartlett, J.A., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1992). Affective Processes, Immune Dysfunction & Health. American Psychiatric Association. Washington, D.C.
Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., Bartlett, J.A., & Eckholdt, H.M. (1992). Affective Processes and Immune Dysfunction Have Health Consequences. Society of Biological Psychiatry. Washington, D.C.
Kaplan, G., Serrano, M., Brodzinsky, D., & Eckholdt, H. (1991). Coping Styles of Children Who Attend a Community Mental Health Center. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. San Francisco, California.
Eckholdt, H.M., Bartlett, J.A., Schleifer, S.J., & Keller, S.E. (1991). Urban Adolescent Experiences With AIDS as Predictors of Sex Behaviors. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. San Francisco, California.
Shiflett, S.C., Eckholdt, H.M., Keller, S.E., Schleifer, S.J., & Bartlett, J.A. (1991). Relationship of Loneliness to Mood and Behavior Among Minority Adolescents. American Psychological Association. San Francisco, California.
Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J., Cohen, J., & Keller, S.E. (1991). Controlling for Day to Day Laboratory Variance in Repeated Measures Psychoimmunologic Studies. In Statistics in Medicine, Proceedings from the 1991 Symposium on Longitudinal Data Analysis of the American Statistical Association.
Delany, B., Bartlett, J.A., Eckholdt, H.M., Schleifer, S.J., & Keller, S.E. (1991). Adolescent Suicidality in an Inner-City Population. American Psychiatric Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Schleifer, S.J., Keller, S.E., Eckholdt, H.M., & Stein, M. (1991). Life Threatening Spousal Illness and Immunity. Biological Psychiatry. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Delany, B., Eckholdt, H.M., Bartlett, J.A., Schleifer, S.J., & Keller, S.E. (1991). Suicidal Ideation and Death of a Friend among Urban Black and Hispanic Adolescents. NIH Medical Fellows. Washington, D.C.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1990). Age Differences in Voice Memory: Implications for Adolescents as "Ear-Witnesses". Society for Research on Adolescence. Atlanta, Georgia.
Eckholdt, H.M. (1990). Age Differences in Voice Memory: Developmental Shifts or Stimulus Artifacts? Conference on Human Development. Richmond, Virginia.
Pane, A., Eckholdt, H., & Savin-Williams, R.C. (1988). Community Mental Health Needs of Lesbians and Gays. American Psychological Association. Atlanta, Georgia.