Kimberleigh Cox

Kim hails from the East Coast where she did her undergraduate work in psychology and modern dance at Brown University. She worked in clinical psychiatric research at Brown, Harvard and Stanford Universities before graduating from the Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner program at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing in 1998. She has extensive experience in the evaluation and treatment of patients with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

For almost a decade, Kim worked as the Senior Nurse Practitioner for Baker Places, Inc. a San-Francisco-based non-profit agency serving a homeless mentally ill and chemically dependent adults. She continues to work part-time providing care for this population at Grove Street House. Kim is also an experienced practitioner working with an adult population general practice and urgent care as well as detoxification services. She is trained in the Evidence-Based Psychotherapeutic approach for chronic depressive disorders, CBASP, or Cognitive Behavioral Analysis Systems Psychotherapy.

Kim has been a part-time lecturer and instructor at University of San Francisco School of Nursing since 2003 and has recently accepted a full-time faculty appointment as an instructor in the undergraduate and graduate divisions of the University of San Francisco, School of Nursing. She is also attending the doctoral program at USF in Nursing Practice. She serves on a disaster preparedness taskforce, program evaluation committee and is the faculty advisor for the USF Nursing Student Association. Kim has enjoyed her part-time work at Gateway Psychiatric Services since 2005, doing medication management, psychotherapy, and most recently CBASP.

Advanced Practice Nursing Experience

Senior Nurse Practitioner
Baker Places, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
Residential Treatment Services for Adult Dual Diagnosis Clients
Providing mental health and substance abuse treatment and evaluations
Acute detoxification services
Urgent medical care
Individual and group psychoeducation and supportive psychotherapy
Administrative and management roles
August 1998-Present

Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist
Gateway Psychiatric Services, San Francisco, CA.
January 2006 – Present

Nurse Practitioner Instructor
University of San Francisco, School of Nursing
San Francisco, CA.
Instructor for undergraduate and graduate nursing students
Assessment of Human Responses
Additional lectures on Homelessness.
May 2003-Present

Research Associate/Nurse Psychiatric Consultant
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
Consultant to Mood Disorders Clinic
Worked on Psychiatric Evaluations for Clinical Research Studies
1992-1996 as RA, 1996-2000 Nurse Consultant/Researcher

Other Nursing Experience

Staff R.N., Medication Nurse
East Bay Hospital, Richmond, CA. 1996-1997
R.N. for inpatient, locked psychiatric facility

Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry. Palo Alto, CA
Consultant-Psychiatric Nurse & Research Associate; Research assistance and clinical interviews for the Mood Disorder’s Clinic protocols. 1992-1995; 1997-1998

Marin General Hospital, Psychiatric Emergency Services. Greenbrae, CA   1996
Volunteer RN, for County MHS; Provided emergent psychiatric evaluations and care.

6th Street Women’s Clinic. San Francisco, CA     1996-1998
RN, NP in Training; Provided primary & urgent care to homeless women at a free clinic.

UCSF Department of Community Health Systems.
Clinical and Research Psychiatric Nurse, San Francisco, CA 1997-1998

UCSF Department of Community Health Systems. San Francisco, CA    2001-2003
Nurse Practitioner Appointment & the UCSF Community Advisory Board-assisting in academic program development for school of nursing.

California Mental Health Planning Council, Nurse Practitioner Work Group Sacramento, CA, 2001-2003. Appointed to Sacramento Human Resources Project’s Nurse Practitioner work group to assess current status of California’s Nurse Practitioner scope of practice & academic training programs.

Licenses

		California R.N. License, active status
		California psychiatric CNS certification, active status
		California and national N.P. certification and furnishing number, active status
		ANCC certification, ANP certified, active
		DEA Controlled substance dispensing license
		American Heart Association, CPR and BLS for Healthcare Providers

Education

M.S., Nursing
University of California San Francisco, School of Nursing
Department of Community Health Systems
Psychiatric/Mental Health Adult Nurse Practitioner specialty
June 1998

Master’s Entry Program in Nursing (MEPN)
University of California San Francisco, School of Nursing
June 1996.

B.A., Psychology
Brown University, Providence, RI
Member of Repertory Modern Dance Company, Extension
1986-1990

Teaching

University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

2007-present, Full-time Term Faculty and Instructor in the School of Nursing; teaching courses and clinical methods to sophomore level students as well as Master’s Entry Option Nursing Students.

Faculty Advisor to the Nursing Student Association and Nursing Student Council Member of Disaster Preparedness Taskforce Member of Program Evaluation Committee

USF School of Nursing, Part-time Faculty Member
August 2003-2007, Instructor to undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

University of California, San Francisco.
2000-Present, Clinical Preceptor, Lecturer

Publications & Research

The Specificity of Substance Use in Anxiety Disordered Subjects, Comprehensive Psychiatry, Sept/Oct 1995, Volume 36, 5, 319-328.

Anxiety Outreach, Newsletters in collaboration with the President of the Anxiety Disorders Association of America in Washington, D. C. 1990-1992.

Acknowledgment for editorial assistance to Dr. Charles DeBattista, Stanford University, Professor of Psychiatry’s text Medical Management of Depression, DeBattista, 1997.

RESEARCH PROTOCOLS:
	1990-1998

Performed Clinical and Diagnostic, Psychiatric & Health Assessments:

		DSM IV field trials Brown University, Providence RI site 1990-1992.
		Harvard/Brown Anxiety Research Protocol (naturalistic prospective study)
		NIMH Collaborative Depression Study, (Study Coordinator)
		Eating Disorders Study at Butler Hospital, Providence, RI & Brown Psychiatry
		Department
		Primary Care Mental Health Study, Providence, RI
		Comparative treatment studies, Chronic & Double Depression, Stanford University,
		Palo Alto, CA
		Inpatient Psychotic Depression Study, Stanford University Hospital
		Health Behaviors of Persistently Mentally Ill clients in crisis, in SF ADU’s

Professional Affiliations

Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA)