AdamKetronMDPhD(He/Him)

Psycho-Oncology, Psychosomatic Medicine

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellow (Psycho-oncology Track), Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Dr. Adam Ketron is a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellow (Psycho-Oncology Track) at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He is a Staff Psychiatrist at Wyoming Behavioral Institute and provides attending coverage at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Main and Faulkner Campuses). His interests include psychosocial oncology and the relationships between medical and psychiatric disorders, as well as addiction, collaborative and integrated care models, ethics, and health behaviors. He has presented work at the 2023 and 2024 Annual Meetings of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry, where his team won a 2024 Top Trainee Poster award for work on the neural mechanisms of addiction. Dr. Ketron completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Washington (Montana Track), where he was awarded funding from the UW Clinician Scientist Training Program for qualitative research on contingency management. He earned his medical degree at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where he served as Student Vice President of Medical Education and conducted research in molecular oncology. Dr. Ketron holds a PhD in Chemical and Physical Biology from Vanderbilt University, where he focused on cancer biology.

Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2024 - 2025
Montana State University, Office of Rural HealthCertificate, Area Health Education Center Scholars Program, 2023 - 2024
University of WashingtonResidency, Psychiatry, 2020 - 2024
University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of MedicineClass of 2020, MD
Middle Tennessee State UniversityGraduate Studies, Education, 2014 - 2016
Vanderbilt UniversityPhD, Chemical and Physical Biology, 2007 - 2013
Northern Kentucky UniversityBS, Chemistry (Biochemistry track), magna cum laude, 2003 - 2007

Best Research Presentation, Resident Research and Quality Improvement Retreat University of Washington School of Medicine Psychiatry Residency Training Program, 2024
Clinician Scientist Training Program University of Washington, 2023-2024
Medical Student Research Fellowship University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2017
Vanderbilt Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Program Vanderbilt University, 2008-2013
Merck/AAAS Undergraduate Science Research Program, NKU Student Undergraduate Research Grant, and Procter and Gamble Special Grants Northern Kentucky University, 2005-2007
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PubMed

60 citations
Amsacrine as a topoisomerase II poison: importance of drug-DNA interactions.
Adam C. Ketron, William A. Denny, David E. Graves, Neil Osheroff
Biochemistry. 2012-02-28
41 citations
Phytochemicals as anticancer and chemopreventive topoisomerase II poisons
Adam C. Ketron, Neil Osheroff
Phytochemistry Reviews. 2014-03-01
50 citations
Oxidative metabolites of curcumin poison human type II topoisomerases.
Adam C. Ketron, Odaine N. Gordon, Claus Schneider, Neil Osheroff
Biochemistry. 2013-01-08

Books/Book Chapters

Encycl Mol Life Sci
Chapter: Topoisomerases and cancer
Ketron AC, Osheroff NEditors: Bell, E.Springer, New York2014
Encycl Mol Life Sci
Chapter: Gyrase and topoisomerase IV as targets for antibacterial drugs
Ketron A, Aldred K, Lindsey R, Osheroff NEditors: Bell, E.Springer, New York2014
Encycl Mol Life Sci
Chapter: DNA topology and topoisomerases
Ketron A, Osheroff NEditors: Bell, E.Springer, New York2014

Abstracts/Posters

Fully remote mHealth-delivered contingency management for the treatment of methamphetamine use disorder: a qualitative analysis of patient experiences
Ketron A, Chang Y, Cohn E, Duncan M, Iles-Shih M, Saxon A, Hallgren K, Annual AAAP Meeting, San Diego, CA, 12/9/2023
Smartphone-based contingency management for methamphetamine use disorder: a qualitative analysis of clinician perspectives
Chang Y, Ketron A, Cohn E, Saxon A, Iles-Shih M, Duncan M, Hallgren K, Annual AAAP Meeting, San Diego, CA, 12/9/2023
The role of MMP-9 knockdown in induction of p53 in human breast cancer
Ketron A, Pourmotabbed T, Annual UTHSC MSRF Presentations, Memphis, TN, 8/3/2017
Oxidative metabolism of curcumin: products, mechanisms, and biological activity
Gordon O, Ketron A, Osheroff N, Schneider C, Planta Med/Annual ASP Meeting, St Louis, 7/17/2013
Structure-activity relationship studies of the type II topoisomerase poison amsacrine
Ketron A, Graves D, Osheroff N, Cancer Res/Annual AACR Meeting, Orlando, 4/6/2011
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Lectures

Diagnosing bipolar disorder
Montana Family Medicine Residency Program - 2/14/2024
Medication-assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder
Project ECHO Billings Clinic - 6/21/2023
Trauma-informed care: an overview of the attachment, regulation, and competency framework
Project ECHO Billings Clinic - 5/10/2023
Misuse of gabapentin and related medications
Project ECHO Billings Clinic - 4/19/2023
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
Project ECHO Billings Clinic - 12/7/2022
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Other

Synthetic and natural products as poisons of human topoisomerase II
Ketron A, Dissertation
https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/bitstream/handle/1803/11309/Ketron.pdf
Vanderbilt University - 5/2013

Student Vice President of Medical Education, Medical Student Executive Council, University of Tennessee Health Science Center 2016 - 2020
Executive Board Member, Chemical Biology Association of Students, Vanderbilt University 2011 - 2012

Resident Co-Primary InvestigatorUniversity of Washington, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences2023 - 2024
Medical Student Research FellowUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center, Dept of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry2017 - 2017
Graduate Research AssistantVanderbilt University, Dept of Biochemistry2008 - 2013
Undergraduate Research AssistantNorthern Kentucky University, Dept of Chemistry2005 - 2007