Jason I. Chen, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
  • Associate Faculty, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, School of Medicine

Biography

Jason I. Chen, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Faculty in the Clinical Psychology PhD Program at OHSU. Dr. Chen also serves as a Core Investigator at the VA HSR Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC). Dr. Chen’s research lab, the Connecting Communities for Suicide Prevention Lab (CCSP), studies suicide prevention for high-risk populations with a focus on military veterans, community-based approaches, and help-seeking processes. Clinically, Dr. Chen provides supervision on suicide-specific interventions and adapting evidence-based psychotherapies to acute care and non-traditional settings.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.A., 2007, Vassar College
    • M.A., 2013, University of South Florida
    • Ph.D., 2016, University of South Florida

  • Internship

    • Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver VA Medical Center

  • Fellowship

    • VA Health Systems Research Advanced Research Fellowship, VA HSR Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC), VA Portland Health Care System

Areas of interest

  • Suicide Risk Assessment and Management
  • Intervention and Prevention Programming Development
  • Treatment-Seeking Behaviors and Mental Health Promotion

Publications

Publications

  • Adapting the Zero Suicide framework to the adult emergency department setting

    Archives of psychiatric nursing
    1. Brandon Roth
    2. Jason I. Chen
    3. David R. Nagarkatti-Gude
    4. Paul N. Pfeiffer
    5. Craig D. Newgard
    6. Denise M. Hynes
    7. Edwin D. Boudreaux

  • County Characteristics and Veteran Suicide in the United States, 2011–2018

    American journal of preventive medicine
    1. Lauren M. Denneson
    2. Mary J. Bollinger
    3. Rachel Phillips
    4. Jason I. Chen
    5. Kathleen F. Carlson

  • Psychotherapist perceptions of engagement-building behaviours with youth clients across developmental levels

    Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
    1. Edmund W. Orlowski
    2. Jason I. Chen
    3. Lindsey H. Breznik
    4. La Donna L. Gleason
    5. Marc S. Karver

  • Risk of Suicide-Related Outcomes After SARS-COV-2 Infection

    Journal of general internal medicine
    1. Denise M. Hynes
    2. Meike Niederhausen
    3. Jason I. Chen
    4. Troy A. Shahoumian
    5. Mazhgan Rowneki
    6. Alex Hickok
    7. Megan Shepherd-Banigan
    8. Eric J. Hawkins
    9. Jennifer Naylor
    10. Alan Teo
    11. Diana J. Govier
    12. Kristin Berry
    13. Holly McCready
    14. Thomas F. Osborne
    15. Edwin Wong
    16. Paul L. Hebert
    17. Valerie A. Smith
    18. C. Barrett Bowling
    19. Edward J. Boyko
    20. George N. Ioannou
    21. Theodore J. Iwashyna
    22. Matthew L. Maciejewski
    23. Ann M. O’Hare
    24. Elizabeth M. Viglianti
    25. Amy S.B. Bohnert

  • Suicide risk profiles among service members and veterans exposed to suicide

    Journal of clinical psychology
    1. Amanda Peterson
    2. Jason Chen
    3. Melanie Bozzay
    4. Ansley Bender
    5. Carol Chu

  • Factors associated with a lack of health care utilization among Veterans after a positive suicide screen in the emergency department

    Academic Emergency Medicine
    1. Avery Z. Laliberte
    2. Apoorva Salvi
    3. Elizabeth Hooker
    4. Brandon Roth
    5. Robert Handley
    6. Kathleen Carlson
    7. Denise Hynes
    8. Anaïs Tuepker
    9. Jason I. Chen

  • Inactivation of High-Risk Flags for Suicide in the Veterans Health Administration

    Psychological Services
    1. Lauren M. Denneson
    2. Sara A. Hannon
    3. Katie L. McDonald
    4. Jason I. Chen
    5. Maya E. O’Neil

  • Research and policy recommendations from the SOTA XVI

    Academic Emergency Medicine
    1. Michael J. Ward
    2. Ula Hwang
    3. S. Nicole Hastings
    4. Christine Timko
    5. Jason I. Chen
    6. Anita A. Vashi
    7. Kristin Mattocks
    8. Erica A. Abel
    9. Dawn M. Bravata

  • Self-Directed Violence Surveillance in the Veterans Health Administration

    Community mental health journal
    1. Lauren M. Denneson
    2. David C. Cameron
    3. Elizabeth R. Hooker
    4. Avery Z. Laliberte
    5. Jason I. Chen

  • Veteran suicide and associated community characteristics in Oregon

    Preventive medicine
    1. Lauren M. Denneson
    2. Mary J. Bollinger
    3. Claire C. Meunier
    4. Jason I. Chen
    5. Teresa J. Hudson
    6. Corey S. Sparks
    7. Kathleen F. Carlson

  • A Peer-to-Peer Suicide Prevention Workshop for Medical Students

    MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources
    1. Alyssa Hjelvik
    2. Alyssa Eldridge
    3. Megan Furnari
    4. Hannah Hoeflich
    5. Jason I. Chen
    6. Brandon Roth
    7. Whitney Black

  • Hospital Readmissions Among Veterans Within 90 Days of Discharge Following Initial Hospitalization for COVID-19

    Preventing Chronic Disease
    1. Frances M. Weaver
    2. Meike Niederhausen
    3. Alex Hickok
    4. Allison C. O’Neill
    5. Howard S. Gordon
    6. Samuel T. Edwards
    7. Diana J. Govier
    8. Jason I. Chen
    9. Rebecca Young
    10. Mary Whooley
    11. Denise M. Hynes

  • Psychiatric disorders newly diagnosed among veterans subsequent to hospitalization for COVID-19

    Psychiatry Research
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. Alex Hickok
    3. Allison C. O'Neill
    4. Meike Niederhausen
    5. Avery Z. Laliberte
    6. Diana J. Govier
    7. Samuel T. Edwards
    8. Howard S. Gordon
    9. Christopher G. Slatore
    10. Francis M. Weaver
    11. Rebecca Young
    12. Denise M. Hynes

  • Those left behind

    Death Studies
    1. Amanda Peterson
    2. Melanie Bozzay
    3. Ansley Bender
    4. Maureen Monahan
    5. Jason Chen

  • Under the Surface

    School Mental Health
    1. La Donna L. Gleason
    2. Ansley M. Bender
    3. Jason I. Chen
    4. Melanie Bozzay
    5. Renee Hangartner
    6. Gabriela Romero
    7. Christa D. Labouliere
    8. Meredith Elzy
    9. Kimberley Gryglewicz
    10. Marc S. Karver

  • Veteran Community Engagement and Social Connection Needs Following Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization

    Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. Sarah S. Ono
    3. Avery Z. Laliberte
    4. Brandon Roth
    5. Steven K. Dobscha

  • Assessment of Suicidal Intent in Self-directed Violence and Subsequent Care Received among Military Veterans

    Medical care
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. David C. Cameron
    3. Avery Z. Laliberte
    4. Elizabeth R. Hooker
    5. Meike Niederhausen
    6. Lauren M. Denneson

  • Deaths of Despair

    Cognitive and Behavioral Practice
    1. Kristoffer Rehder
    2. Jaimie Lusk
    3. Jason I. Chen

  • From Screening to Interventions

    Academic Psychiatry
    1. Maria Chuop
    2. Zack Michel
    3. Riva Shah
    4. Jason I. Chen
    5. Whitney Black

  • Risk of Suicidal Self-directed Violence among US Veteran Survivors of Head and Neck Cancer

    JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
    1. Shannon M. Nugent
    2. Benjamin J. Morasco
    3. Robert Handley
    4. Daniel Clayburgh
    5. Elizabeth R. Hooker
    6. Linda Ganzini
    7. Sara J. Knight
    8. Jason Chen
    9. Donald R. Sullivan
    10. Christopher Slatore

  • Suicide Screening and Risk Assessment in the Emergency Department

    Journal of Emergency Nursing
    1. Avery Z. Laliberte
    2. Brandon Roth
    3. Beau Edwards
    4. Jason I. Chen

  • An Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the Reasons for Living Inventory within a Male Veteran Clinical Sample

    Archives of Suicide Research
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. Augustine Osman
    3. Stacey L. Freedenthal
    4. Peter M. Gutierrez

  • Examining the effects of role play practice in enhancing clinical skills to assess and manage suicide risk

    Journal of Mental Health
    1. Kim Gryglewicz
    2. Maureen M. Monahan
    3. Jason I. Chen
    4. Melanie Bozzay
    5. Ansley Bender
    6. La Donna L. Gleason
    7. Melissa Witmeier
    8. Marc S. Karver

  • Social connectedness, depression symptoms, and health service utilization

    Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. Elizabeth R. Hooker
    3. Meike Niederhausen
    4. Heather E. Marsh
    5. Somnath Saha
    6. Steven K. Dobscha
    7. Alan R. Teo

  • Evaluation of the Safety and Design of Community Internet Resources for Veteran Suicide Prevention

    Crisis
    1. Jason I. Chen
    2. Ginnifer L. Mastarone
    3. Santisia A. Ambrosino
    4. Nicole Anzalone
    5. Kathleen F. Carlson
    6. Steven K. Dobscha
    7. Alan R. Teo

  • Frustration with feeling

    Psychiatry Research
    1. Amanda L. Peterson
    2. Jason I. Chen
    3. Marc S. Karver
    4. Christa D. Labouliere