- Director of Education, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
- Associate Dean, Continuing Medical Education
- Founding Director, UC Irvine Train New Trainers (TNT) Primary Care Fellowships
- Director, Health Education to Advance Leaders in Integrative Medicine (HEAL-IM)
Research Interests
- Integrated care
- Integrative Medicine
- Medical education
- Pain Medicine
Publications
- Opioid prescriptions following behavioral health training among primary care providers. BMC Med Educ. 2024 Nov 26; 24(1):1374. Huo S, A Bruckner T, Das A, L Xiong G, Marcovitz D, B Neikrug A, McCarron R. PMID: 39592999.
- Improving Behavioral Healthcare Access Disparities by Training Providers in Disadvantaged Communities – Evidence of Strategy Effectiveness. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Jan; 40(1):102-112. Neikrug AB, Cho SS, Nguyen ES, Stehli A, Huo S, Garcia C, Au S, Masoumirad M, Cant W, Le-Bucklin KV, Gagliardi JP, Xiong GL, McCarron RM. PMID: 39482475.
- Patient and Provider Satisfaction with Asynchronous Versus Synchronous Telepsychiatry in Primary Care: A Secondary Mixed-Methods Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial. Telemed J E Health. 2024 Apr; 30(4):e1049-e1063. Yellowlees PM, Burke MM, Gonzalez AD, Fisher A, Chan SR, Hilty DM, McCarron RM, Scher LM, Sciolla AF, Shore J, Xiong G, Fine J, Bannister J, Iosif AM. PMID: 38011623.
- Mental Health Is Heart Health: Adjusting Clinical Guidelines for Depression After Myocardial Infarction. Harv Rev Psychiatry. 2023 Nov-Dec 01; 31(6):287-292. Hardoy CR, Shipley JH, Kramer EN, McCarron RM. PMID: 37870219.
- Antidepressant Prescription Behavior Among Primary Care Clinician Providers After an Interprofessional Primary Care Psychiatric Training Program. Adm Policy Ment Health. 2023 11; 50(6):926-935. Huo S, Bruckner TA, Xiong GL, Cooper E, Wade A, Neikrug AB, Gagliardi JP, McCarron R. PMID: 37598371.
- Train New Trainers Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship-Optimizing Delivery of Behavioral Health Care Through Training for Primary Care Providers. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2022 04 01; 42(2):105-114. Neikrug AB, Stehli A, Xiong GL, Suo S, Le-Bucklin KV, Cant W, McCarron RM. PMID: 35439771.
- Utilizing Big Data From Google Trends to Map Population Depression in the United States: Exploratory Infodemiology Study. JMIR Ment Health. 2022 Mar 31; 9(3):e35253. Wang A, McCarron R, Azzam D, Stehli A, Xiong G, DeMartini J. PMID: 35357320.
- Primary Care Physician Adherence to Telepsychiatry Recommendations: Intermediate Outcomes from a Randomized Clinical Trial. Telemed J E Health. 2022 06; 28(6):838-846. Lieng MK, Aurora MS, Kang Y, Kim JM, Marcin JP, Chan SR, Mouzoon JL, Tancredi DJ, Parish M, Gonzalez AD, Scher L, Xiong G, McCarron RM, Yellowlees P. PMID: 34726542.
- Clinical Outcomes of Asynchronous Versus Synchronous Telepsychiatry in Primary Care: Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2021 07 20; 23(7):e24047. Yellowlees PM, Parish MB, Gonzalez AD, Chan SR, Hilty DM, Yoo BK, Leigh JP, McCarron RM, Scher LM, Sciolla AF, Shore J, Xiong G, Soltero KM, Fisher A, Fine JR, Bannister J, Iosif AM. PMID: 33993104.
- Depression. Ann Intern Med. 2021 05; 174(5):ITC65-ITC80. McCarron RM, Shapiro B, Rawles J, Luo J. PMID: 33971098.
- Asynchronous Telepsychiatry Interviewer Training Recommendations: A Model for Interdisciplinary, Integrated Behavioral Health Care. Telemed J E Health. 2021 09; 27(9):982-988. Parish MB, Gonzalez A, Hilty D, Chan S, Xiong G, Scher L, Liu D, Sciolla A, Shore J, McCarron R, Kahn D, Iosif AM, Yellowlees P. PMID: 33434453.
- Telepsychiatry and other technologies for integrated care: evidence base, best practice models and competencies. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2018 12; 30(6):292-309. Hilty DM, Sunderji N, Suo S, Chan S, McCarron RM. PMID: 30821540.
- Epidemiology and Economic Burden of Serotonin Syndrome With Concomitant Use of Serotonergic Agents: A Retrospective Study Utilizing Two Large US Claims Databases. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2017 Dec 28; 19(6). Nguyen CT, Xie L, Alley S, McCarron RM, Baser O, Wang Z. PMID: 29286588.
- An Update on Telepsychiatry and How It Can Leverage Collaborative, Stepped, and Integrated Services to Primary Care. Psychosomatics. 2018 May – Jun; 59(3):227-250. Hilty DM, Rabinowitz T, McCarron RM, Katzelnick DJ, Chang T, Bauer AM, Fortney J. PMID: 29544663.
- Asynchronous Telepsychiatry: A Component of Stepped Integrated Care. Telemed J E Health. 2018 05; 24(5):375-378. Yellowlees P, Burke Parish M, González Á, Chan S, Hilty D, Iosif AM, McCarron R, Odor A, Scher L, Sciolla A, Shore J, Xiong G. PMID: 29024612.
- Use of Preventive Health Services in People With Serious Mental Illness: Consumer Perspectives on Barriers and Solutions. Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2017 Jan 05; 19(1). Xiong GL, Iosif AM, Culpepper NH, McCarron RM. PMID: 28102976.
- Depression. Ann Intern Med. 2016 Oct 04; 165(7):ITC49-ITC64. McCarron RM, Vanderlip ER, Rado J. PMID: 27699401.
- Integrated Care at the Interface of Psychiatry and Primary Care: Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2015 Sep; 38(3):463-74. McCarron RM. PMID: 26300033.
- Integrated Medicine and Psychiatry Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency Training: a Model Designed to Meet Growing Mental Health Workforce Needs. Acad Psychiatry. 2015 Aug; 39(4):461-5. McCarron RM, Bourgeois JA, Chwastiak LA, Folsom D, Hales RE, Han J, Rado J, Rivelli S, Scher L, Yu A. PMID: 26015164.
- Clinical management of comorbid diabetes and psychotic disorders. Lancet Psychiatry. 2015 May; 2(5):465-476. Chwastiak LA, Freudenreich O, Tek C, McKibbin C, Han J, McCarron R, Wisse B. PMID: 26360289.
- General and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Resident Training in Integrated Care: a Survey of Program Directors. Acad Psychiatry. 2015 Aug; 39(4):442-7. Reardon CL, Bentman A, Cowley DS, Dunaway K, Forstein M, Girgis C, Han J, Hung E, Jones J, Keeble T, McCarron RM, Varley CK. PMID: 25778670.
- Understanding preventive health screening services use in persons with serious mental illness: how does integrated behavioral health primary care compare? Int J Psychiatry Med. 2015; 48(4):279-98. Xiong GL, Iosif AM, Suo S, Mccarron RM, Koike A, Onate J, Carter CS. PMID: 25817524.
- Integrated care: nonfasting screening for cardiovascular risk among individuals taking second-generation antipsychotics. Psychiatr Serv. 2014 May 01; 65(5):573-6. Vanderlip ER, Chwastiak LA, McCarron RM. PMID: 24788735.
- Teaching psychiatry residents to work at the interface of mental health and primary care. Acad Psychiatry. 2014 Aug; 38(4):398-404. Cowley D, Dunaway K, Forstein M, Frosch E, Han J, Joseph R, McCarron RM, Ratzliff A, Solomon B, Unutzer J. PMID: 24733538.
- The medical-psychiatric coordinating physician-led model: team-based treatment for complex patients. Psychosomatics. 2014 Jul-Aug; 55(4):333-342. Frankel SA, Bourgeois JA, Xiong G, McCarron R, Han J, Erdberg P. PMID: 24833116.
- The DSM-5 and the art of medicine: certainly uncertain. Ann Intern Med. 2013 Sep 03; 159(5):360-1. McCarron RM. PMID: 23877282.
- An academic-community partnership to improve care for the underserved. Acad Med. 2011 Feb; 86(2):252-8. Fancher TL, Keenan C, Meltvedt C, Stocker T, Harris T, Morfín J, McCarron R, Kulkarni-Date M, Henderson MC. PMID: 21169777.
- General-medical hospital admissions from a public inpatient psychiatric health facility: a review of medical complications over 30 months. Psychosomatics. 2010 Nov-Dec; 51(6):498-502. Leung MW, Xiong GL, Leamon MH, McCarron RM, Hales RE. PMID: 21051681.
- Preventive medical services use among community mental health patients with severe mental illness:the influence of gender and insurance coverage. Prim Care Companion J Clin Psychiatry. 2010; 12(5). Xiong GL, Iosif AM, Bermudes RA, McCarron RM, Hales RE. PMID: 21274355.
- Psychiatrists for medically complex patients: bringing value at the physical health and mental health/substance-use disorder interface. Psychosomatics. 2009 Mar-Apr; 50(2):93-107. Kathol RG, Kunkel EJ, Weiner JS, McCarron RM, Worley LL, Yates WR, Summergrad P, Huyse FJ. PMID: 19377017.
- A novel approach to medicine training for psychiatry residents. Acad Psychiatry. 2008 Nov-Dec; 32(6):518-20. Onate J, Hales R, McCarron R, Han J, Pitman D. PMID: 19190300.
- Managing somatization disorder. Virtual Mentor. 2008 Jul 01; 10(7):447-52. McCarron R. PMID: 23212087.
- Management of mental illness in patients with diabetes. Prim Care. 2007 Dec; 34(4):713-30, v. Hilty DM, McCarron RM, Ton H. PMID: 18061815.