Daniel Dickerson

About Daniel Dickerson

Dr. Daniel Dickerson is an Inupiaq, a double board-certified psychiatrist and an addiction psychiatrist and is Assistant Research Psychiatrist at UCLA, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs. He focuses his research on substance abuse among American Indians/Alaska Natives and on the development of culturally relevant substance abuse treatments for American Indians/Alaska Natives. He is the principal Investigator on an R-21 NIH/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine-funded research grant which focuses on the development and initial evaluation of "Drum-Assisted Recovery Therapy for Native Americans (DARTNA)."