Faculty and Staff News

Gino Aisenberg Receives Grant for Intervention with Rural Latino Population

Congratulations to Dr. Gino Aisenberg who has received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to introduce a manualized telephone cognitive behavioral treatment (CBT) intervention for depressed low-income Latino primary care patients served by the Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic in rural Eastern Washington. Megan Dwight Johnson, from the School of Medicine, is co-principal investigator. The study's ultimate objective is to develop a culturally appropriate, sustainable, and cost-effective depression treatment program that can be incorporated into routine primary care practices serving low-income rural Latinos and that can be tested in a full-scale randomized controlled trial. As the first study to examine the effectiveness of telephone-based CBT for a rural Latino population in the United States, this two-year study is groundbreaking.