Douglas Tucker, MD
Volunteer Clinical Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Dr. Tucker is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Faculty Member of the UCSF Psychiatry and the Law Program. He received his MD degree from the University of Michigan, completed his internship and residency in Psychiatry at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and completed subsequent fellowships in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at UCLA, and Forensic Psychiatry at the Rush University College of Medicine.

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He is Board Certified in Psychiatry, Addiction Psychiatry, and Forensic Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and in Addiction Medicine by the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Education & Training

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• Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry Rush University Medical College 1998
• Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry University of California, Los Angeles 1988
• Internship and Psychiatric Residency University of California, Los Angeles 1987
• M.D. Doctor of Medicine University of Michigan 1983
• B.S. Biomedical Science University of Michigan 1979

Publications (12)

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• Capital sentencing and neuropsychiatry.
  Behavioral sciences & the law 2024 Brakel SJ, Tucker DE
• The pharmacologic treatment of problematic sexual interests, paraphilic disorders, and sexual preoccupation in adult men who have committed a sexual offence.
  International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England) 2019 Winder B, Fedoroff JP, Grubin D, Klapilová K, Kamenskov M, Tucker D, Basinskaya IA, Vvedensky GE
• Risk Assessment of Online Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2019 Hirschtritt ME, Tucker D, Binder RL
• Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, 3rd Edition
  Sexually Violent Predator Laws 2016 Douglas E. Tucker and Samuel Jan Brakel
• Commentary: Craving diagnostic validity in DSM-5 Substance Use Disorders.
  The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2014 Beckson M, Tucker D

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• Androgen deprivation treatment of sexual behavior.
  Advances in psychosomatic medicine 2011 Houts FW, Taller I, Tucker DE, Berlin FS
• Drug testing in the workplace: integrating medical review officer duties into occupational medicine.
  Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2002 Smith DE, Glatt W, Tucker DE, Deutsch R, Seymour RB
• Sources of diagnostic uncertainty for chronically psychotic cocaine abusers.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1998 Shaner A, Roberts LJ, Eckman TA, Racenstein JM, Tucker DE, Tsuang JW, Mintz J
• Monetary reinforcement of abstinence from cocaine among mentally ill patients with cocaine dependence.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 1997 Shaner A, Roberts LJ, Eckman TA, Tucker DE, Tsuang JW, Wilkins JN, Mintz J
• Immigrant families coping with schizophrenia. Behavioral family intervention v. case management with a low-income Spanish-speaking population.
  The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 1995 Telles C, Karno M, Mintz J, Paz G, Arias M, Tucker D, Lopez S
• Disability income, cocaine use, and repeated hospitalization among schizophrenic cocaine abusers--a government-sponsored revolving door?
  The New England journal of medicine 1995 Shaner A, Eckman TA, Roberts LJ, Wilkins JN, Tucker DE, Tsuang JW, Mintz J
• Effectively treating stimulant-abusing schizophrenics: mission impossible?
  New directions for mental health services 1992 Roberts LJ, Shaner A, Eckman TA, Tucker DE, Vaccaro JV