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| Leadership: |
Principal Investigator | ||||||||||||
| Leadership Administrative Staff: | Co-director, Attention, Impulsivity & Regulation (AIR) Lab | ||||||||||||
| Primary Activity Coordinators: |
Clinical Services |
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| Discipline Coordinators: |
Psychiatry: Developmental |
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| Discipline(s): |
Psychology |
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| Research: | ADHD Programs | ||||||||||||
| Education: | B.A., College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, 1976
M.A., American University, Washington, DC, 1987 Ph.D., American University, Washington, DC, 1989 | ||||||||||||
Vita/Bio
Dr. Dixon is a licensed clinical psychologist with 35 years of experience in clinical work and research in child psychopathology, specifically the areas of depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD and learning differences in children. Dr. Dixon joined Dr. Julie Schweitzer's ADHD Program at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in 2008. Currently, she serves as co-director for AIR Lab.
In addition Dr. Dixon is the assoicate director of the Mentoring Academy for Reserch Excellence (MARE). She is a Professor in the UC Davis Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She also has spent many years educating and training psychology graduate students, interns, and post-doctoral fellows as well as medical students, residents and child psychiatry fellows.