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National Ranking
1231

Overview

Dennis K. Watson is affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and medicine, with particular attention to public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and general health professions.

Their work has contributed to several topics related to health and well-being studies, telemedicine and telehealth implementation, digital mental health interventions, mobile health and mHealth applications, and opioid use disorder treatment.

Watson has published research in the following venues:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Population Medicine

Frequent coauthors include Peter Phalen, Sarah Messmer, Alan B. McGuire, James A. Swartz, and Spencer Medcalf. These collaborations have supported research efforts in addressing substance use disorder treatment and telehealth services.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Factors affecting successful post-discharge engagement of emergency department patients with opioid use history who received telehealth recovery coaching services, 2023, Population Medicine
  • IDENTIFYING LATENT CLASSES OF EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT PATIENTS RECEIVING TELEHEALTH PEER RECOVERY COACH SERVICES FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND ASSESSING CLASS PREDICTORS AND OUTCOMES, 2024, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Syringe Exchange-Based Telemedicine Linkage to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Results From a Mixed Method Randomized Trial of the STAMINA Intervention, 2025, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Their research explores various aspects of telehealth interventions, especially focusing on substance use disorder and recovery coaching. These studies include assessment of engagement post-discharge, classification of patient subgroups receiving telehealth services, and evaluation of telemedicine linkage to opioid use disorder treatments.

Best Publications

  • Amplification of AKT2 in human pancreatic cells and inhibition of AKT2 expression and tumorigenicity by antisense RNA

    Jin Quan Cheng;Bruce Ruggeri;Walter M. Klein;Gonosuke Sonoda

  • ETS transcription factors and their emerging roles in human cancer.

    Arun Seth;Arun Seth;Dennis K. Watson

  • Ets target genes: past, present and future

    Victor I Sementchenko;Dennis K Watson

  • Hemorrhage, impaired hematopoiesis, and lethality in mouse embryos carrying a targeted disruption of the Fli1 transcription factor.

    Demetri D. Spyropoulos;Pamela N. Pharr;Kim R. Lavenburg;Pascale Jackers

  • Ets proteins in biological control and cancer

    Tien Hsu;Maria Trojanowska;Dennis K. Watson

  • Mammalian ets-1 and ets-2 genes encode highly conserved proteins.

    Dennis K. Watson;Mary J. McWilliams;Peter Lapis;James A. Lautenberger

  • Regulation of Ets function by protein - protein interactions.

    Runzhao Li;Huiping Pei;Dennis K Watson

  • EAP1/Daxx interacts with ETS1 and represses transcriptional activation of ETS1 target genes.

    Runzhao Li;Huiping Pei;Dennis K Watson;Takis S Papas

  • Hu-ets-1 and Hu-ets-2 genes are transposed in acute leukemias with (4;11) and 8;21) translocations

    N. Sacchi;D. K. Watson;A. H. M. Guerts Van Kessel;A. Hagemeijer

  • The ets sequence from the transforming gene of avian erythroblastosis virus, E26, has unique domains on human chromosomes 11 and 21: both loci are transcriptionally active.

    Dennis K. Watson;Mary J. McWilliams-Smith;M. F. Nunn;Peter Duesberg

  • Nucleotide sequence analysis of the chicken c-myc gene reveals homologous and unique coding regions by comparison with the transforming gene of avian myelocytomatosis virus MC29, delta gag-myc

    D K Watson;E P Reddy;P H Duesberg;T S Papas

  • Endothelial Fli1 Deficiency Impairs Vascular Homeostasis : A Role in Scleroderma Vasculopathy

    Yoshihide Asano;Lukasz Stawski;Faye Hant;Kristin Highland

  • Fli-1 inhibits collagen type I production in dermal fibroblasts via an Sp1-dependent pathway.

    Joanna Czuwara-Ladykowska;Fumiaki Shirasaki;Pascale Jackers;Dennis K. Watson

  • Real-time DNA binding measurements of the ETS1 recombinant oncoproteins reveal significant kinetic differences between the p42 and p51 isoforms.

    Robert J. Fisher;Matthew Fivash;Jose Casas-Finet;John W. Erickson

  • Persistent Down-Regulation of Fli1, a Suppressor of Collagen Transcription, in Fibrotic Scleroderma Skin

    Masahide Kubo;Joanna Czuwara-Ladykowska;Omar Moussa;Margaret Markiewicz

  • Defects of DNA mismatch repair in human prostate cancer.

    Yian Chen;Jiansong Wang;Mostafa M. Fraig;John Metcalf

  • Ets1 Is an Effector of the Transforming Growth Factor β (TGF-β) Signaling Pathway and an Antagonist of the Profibrotic Effects of TGF-β

    Joanna Czuwara-Ladykowska;Victor I. Sementchenko;Dennis K. Watson;Maria Trojanowska

  • The Role of Hsp90N, a New Member of the Hsp90 Family, in Signal Transduction and Neoplastic Transformation

    Nicholas Grammatikakis;Adina M. Vultur;Chilakamarti V. Ramana;Aliki Siganou

  • FLI1 and EWS-FLI1 function as ternary complex factors and ELK1 and SAP1a function as ternary and quaternary complex factors on the Egr1 promoter serum response elements.

    Dennis K Watson;Lois Robinson;David R Hodge;Ismail Kola

  • Pdef Expression in Human Breast Cancer Is Correlated with Invasive Potential and Altered Gene Expression

    Ron J. Feldman;Victor I. Sementchenko;Maged Gayed;Mostafa M. Fraig

Frequent Co-Authors

Takis S. Papas
Takis S. Papas National Institutes of Health
Makio Ogawa
Makio Ogawa Medical University of South Carolina
Maria Trojanowska
Maria Trojanowska Boston University
Perry V. Halushka
Perry V. Halushka Medical University of South Carolina
Arun Seth
Arun Seth Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
Robert J. Fisher
Robert J. Fisher Science Applications International Corporation (United States)
Peter H. Duesberg
Peter H. Duesberg University of California, Berkeley
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
Yoshihide Asano
Yoshihide Asano University of Tokyo
Douglas R. Spitz
Douglas R. Spitz University of Iowa

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