Robert Constantine, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor
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E-mail: | rconstantine@fmhi.usf.edu |
| Phone: | 813-974-9018 | |
| Office: | MHC 2731D |
Education
B.A. Iona College
MPH, University of Connecticut
Ph.D., Florida State University
Research Interests
Pharmacoeconomics
Continuous improvement of psychotherapeutic prescribing practices
The formulation and implementation of state mental health policy particularly in the areas of organization and financing
Research Projects
- AHCA - Evaluation of Florida’s Medicaid Managed Mental Health Plans: Administrative Data Sub-study
- AHCA Administrative Data Component
- Costs of Persons with Serious Mental Illness that Become Involved in the Criminal Justice System
- Data Services-Behavioral Health Partnership
- Florida Behavioral Pharmacy Management Program
- Healthcare Resources Among Individuals Receiving Different Anti-Psychotic Medications
- Impact of Consta Related Preferred Drug List Changes on Patient Outcomes and Costs to the Healthcare System
- Impact of Restricted Drug List Policy on Health Outcomes and Cost
- Medicaid Drug Therapy Management System for Behavioral Health
- Pilot Study on Baker Act Evaluations and Associated C5U and Hospital Discharges Receiving RLAI
Trainings
Biography
Robert J. Constantine is an Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Florida State University and more recently a Masters in Public Health from the University of Connecticut. During his more than 30 years in the mental health field, Constantine managed behavioral health care services at a variety of levels serving as CEO of hospitals and of regions of services and facilities in both the public and private sectors. On two different occasions he served as mental health and substance abuse director for the state of Florida and more recently he served as the CEO of the Florida Council for Community Mental Health.
Dr. Constantine took a position as a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy in the spring of 2004. During the last 4 years he has served as PI for a large multi-year behavioral pharmacy management program that includes interventions designed to improve the quality of psychotherapeutic prescribing practices as well as research on the use of antipsychotic medications with children and antipsychotic polypharmacy with children and adults. In the last two years he has secured contracts to conduct research on the impacts of various antipsychotic medications on health care utilization and expenditures and on the effects of policy changes on these important health care dimensions. He currently serves as PI for these projects as well as for a major study of the costs of persons with serious mental illness that became involved with the criminal justice system. He also continues to serve as PI for the administrative data component of the evaluation of Florida’s managed mental health program. Although his four years at FMHI have involved a shift from a focus on state policy to research, Dr. Constantine continues to be involved in state mental health system issues. He recently served as chairman of a workgroup of the Florida Supreme Court Sub-Committee on Mental Health and Criminal Justice Project and helped draft the report that was resented to the Court in January of 2008.
Recent Publications
Constantine, Robert (2007) Reducing variation in the pharmacologic treatment of schizophrenia: Defining acceptable standards of treatment. Current Psychiatry Reports 9 (4)
Constantine, R, Tandon, R. (2007) Antipsychotic equivalent? CUtLASS renews the debate. Current Psychiatry (2007) 6 (2)
Constantine, R, Larsen. B. (2007) The use of antipsychotic medications with children: A current view. Tampa, Florida. The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute.
Constantine, R, Murrin, M., Robst, J. (2007) Evaluation of Florida’s Medicaid mental health plans year 10 Report: Administrative data component. Tampa, Florida. The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute.