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Ellen Tuchman MSW, PHD

Assistant Professor of Social Work
BSW, MSW, PhD New York University
ellen.tuchman@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5915

bio

Dr. Ellen Tuchman teaches Social Work Research I and II (BSW and MSW level) and Mental Health Evidence-Based Practice for Social Workers. She has also taught Integrative Practice and is developing a Social and Behavioral Intervention Research doctoral course for fall, 2008. Dr. Tuchman is currently the NYU coordinator for the NY State Office of Mental Health/Dean’s Consortium of Schools of Social Work Evidence-based Practice in Mental Health project. She served on the planning committee for Healthy Women: A Mandate for Affordable Health Care for All, a symposium on Women's Health across the Life Span, sponsored by Rekindling Reform and the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. She also consults on research to Samaritan Village Inc., with a focus on implementation evaluation of evidence-based practices for homeless mentally ill substance abusers.

Before joining the SSW in 2005, she practiced in hospital-based mental health and chemical dependency settings with diverse populations for more than fifteen years. As the program manager for the NY State Department of Health, Primary Care Initiative she established a cooperative partnership to enhance the availability, accessibility, and coordination of primary medical services to the substance abuse population of lower Manhattan. Dr. Tuchman was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she served as a co-investigator and project director for the NIH/NIDA Office-Based Methadone Prescribing study. Her research and scholarly interests include substance abuse and mental health treatment, and the complex intersection of menopause, substance use, and HIV risk behaviors, social work education, evidence-based practice, and intervention research and methods.

recent publications

  • Tuchman, E. (in press). Methadone maintenance treatment. In G. Fisher & N. Roget (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.
  • Tuchman, E. (in press). A model-guided process evaluation: Office-based prescribing and pharmacy dispensing of methadone. Evaluation and Program Planning.
  • Tuchman, E. & Drucker, E. (in press). Lessons learned in OBOT: Three case studies of women who did not succeed in pharmacy-based methadone treatment. Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment.
  • Tuchman, E. (2007). Exploring the prevalence of menopause symptoms in midlife women in methadone maintenance treatment. Social Work in Health Care, 45(4), 43-62.
  • Drucker, E., Rice, S., Ganse, G., Bonuck, K. & Tuchman, E. (in press). The Lancaster office based opiate treatment program: A case study and prototype for community physicians and pharmacists providing methadone maintenance treatment in the US. Journal of Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment.
  • Tuchman, E., Gregory, C., Simson, J., & Drucker, E. (2006). Safety, efficacy, and feasibility of office based prescribing and community pharmacy dispensing of methadone: results of a pilot study in New Mexico. Journal of Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 4:11-19.
  • Tuchman, E., Gregory, C., Simson, J., & Drucker, E. (2005). Office-based opioid treatment (OBOT) - practitioner's knowledge, attitudes and expectations in New Mexico. Journal of Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 4:11-19.
  • Tuchman, E., Bonuck, K., Tommasello, A., & Drucker, E. (2003). Office-based methadone treatment: A role for community pharmacists. Journal of Addictive Disorders and Their Treatment, 2(3), 91-96.
  • Tuchman, E. (2003). Methadone and menopause: The aging population of women in drug treatment. Journal of Social Work and the Addictions, 3(2), 14-26.
  • Bonuck, K., Drucker, E., Tuchman, E., & Hartel, D. (2003). Initiating office-based prescribing of methadone: Experience of primary care providers in New York. Journal of Maintenance in the Addictions, 2(3), 19-34.
  • Tuchman, E. (2001). Different strokes for different folks: The works of Marsha Rosenbaum. International Journal of Drug Policy, 12, 119-120.
  • McNeely, J., Drucker, E., Hartel, D., & Tuchman, E. (2000). Office-based methadone: The experience of primary care providers in New York. Journal of Urban Health, 77(1), 96-102.

presentations

  • Tuchman, E. (2006, June). Confounding Factors in the Care of Perimenopausal Drug Dependent Women. Invited National presentation at the Women Healing, sponsored by the Hazelden Foundation, in New York, NY.
  • Tuchman, E. (2006, December). Methadone and Menopause: Prevalence and Impact of Physical and Psychological Symptoms in Midlife Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment. Juried paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health, Hong Kong,
  • Shipe, S.L., Siddiqui, N.Q., &Tuchman, E. (2007, February). Progress and Pitfalls: Implementing the Modified Therapeutic Community for the Dually Diagnosed. Juried poster session presented at the SAMHSA/CSAT/CMHS Treatment for Homeless Programs Technical Assistance Workshop, Baltimore, MD.