Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, FAPM

Dr. Rebecca W. Brendel is a psychiatrist at the Law & Psychiatry Service and the Consultation Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is associate director of the Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship and an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Brendel is a graduate of Yale College, where she majored in Philosophy and earned distinction in the major. She is an honors graduate of both the University of Chicago Law School and Pritzker School of Medicine. In 2000, she was awarded the Janet Glasgow Award from the American Medical Women’s Association for graduating first in her medical school class. Dr. Brendel completed her medical internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and her adult psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General and McLean Hospitals. She completed a forensic psychiatry fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2004, and served as the Edmond J. Safra Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University during the 2006-2007 academic year. Dr. Brendel is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with added qualifications in Psychosomatic Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, and is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar.

Dr. Brendel is an active teacher about legal and ethical topics in psychiatry, medicine, human rights, and law and has published on these topics. She evaluates clients involved in a wide array of criminal and civil proceedings, maintains a clinical practice, and specializes in evaluation of individuals with comorbid medical and psychiatric issues. Dr. Brendel is a member of a specialized interdisciplinary medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital that provides treatment to patients with complex psychosocial problems, including dementia, mental illness, homelessness, substance abuse, decisional incapacity, lack of community support, and poverty. She is also responsible for oversight of the clinical assessment of patients’ decisional and functional capacity prior to initiation of guardianship proceedings for inpatients at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Brendel’s experience in psychiatry and law also includes participation in a working group to amend the Illinois Mental Health Code, six years of service as Chair of the Human Rights Committee at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and collaboration with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to develop an educational module on diminished capacity. Dr. Brendel’s participation in the Massachusetts Probate and Family Court’s recent implementation of new guardianship law resulted in the Massachusetts Guardianship Association’s granting her its Annual Isaac Ray Award in 2009. Dr. Brendel serves on the Ethics Committee of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and chairs the Standards and Ethics Subcommittee of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. From 2007 to 2010, she served as an elected Councilor of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society.

Kelly L. Cozza, MD, FAPM

Kelly L. Cozza, MD is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Uniformed Services University, Bethesda Maryland, and psychiatric consultant to the Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She is a Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow in the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. She is a senior author/editor of the Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry (Cohen et al, Oxford 2010), and the Clinical Manual of Drug-Drug Interaction Principles for Medical Practice (Wynn et al, APPI 2009). She has been a co-editor of the "Med-Psych Drug-Drug Interaction Update" column for Psychosomatics and has published numerous papers and chapters in the area of drug interactions and psychopharmacology. She has lectured extensively on many topics and has been co-director or director of full-day CME courses at the American Psychiatric Association Annual meetings (2001-2005, 2008). Dr. Cozza is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and is certified in Adult Psychiatry and in Psychosomatic Medicine.

Dr. Cozza is a training psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and mentor for the National Capital Area Consortium of Military Psychiatry Residency Training program. She has also received the APM Dorfman Journal Paper Award in 2007 and 2004, and the American Psychiatric Association and American Psychiatric Association Committee on Medical Student Education Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education. She has a private practice in general psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine in Washington D.C.

David R. DeMaso, MD

Dr. David DeMaso is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is Psychiatrist-in-Chief, Chairman of Psychiatry, and Leon Eisenberg Chair in Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB). He completed a pediatric internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, general psychiatry training at Duke University Medical Center, child psychiatry training at CHB, and a pediatric psychiatry consultation fellowship at CHB. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, the underlying essence of his work has been to understand what facilitates or hinders an individual's ability to cope with adversity. He has received from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry the 2002 Simon Wile Leadership in Consultation Award, for his work in the field of pediatric psychosomatic medicine, and the 2009 Catcher in the Rye Award, for his mental health advocacy work for children. He was honored with the 2006 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Award for Research in Depression or Suicide for the best article on depression and/or suicide published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Stacey S. Drury, MD, PhD

Dr. Drury is currently Co-Medical Director of Pediatric Consultation Liaison Services at Tulane Hospital for Children and also has a basic science research focus. Her research focus is centered on understanding the relation between early adverse experiences such as disasters, early severe social deprivation and medical illness, and genetic vulnerability and cognitive neuroscience. Through an increased understanding of the impact of negative early life events and the protective factors, such as good parenting, she seeks to design prevention and early intervention programs to decrease the long term impact of early life stress, including chronic and severe medical illness.

Dr. Drury began graduate training in human genetics in 1993 at the University of Michigan. After the completion of her masters degree in 1996, she transferred into the MD/PhD program at Louisiana State University School of Medicine and completed her Ph.D. under the guidance of Dr. Bronya Keats. During the completion of her Ph.D., she started a medical student buddy program for the pediatric oncology patients, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, which continues today. In addition she was the medical director and president of the Board of Directors for Camp Challenge, which provides a free week-long camp for children with cancer and their siblings through out the Gulf South.

She is currently a member of the AACAP Work Group on Research as well as the AACAP Committee on Physically Ill Children through which she is able to advance research in the psychological aspects of medically ill children. In 2004 she was awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIMH) Resident of the Year Award and the APA/Shire Child and Adolescent Fellowship in 2005, and a Junior Investigator Award from the ADAA and from the APA in 2009. In addition she has received grants from the APA, the AACAP, NARSAD, and Harvard University to study gene x environment interactions in early traumatic stress. She has over 15 peer reviewed publications related to her research interests. Most recently she has become the John F. McDermott Assistant Editor-in-residence, for the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at Tulane University. Her clinical focus is medically ill children and she spends greater than half her time involved in ongoing gene-environment studies.

Stephen J. Ferrando, MD, FAPM

Dr. Stephen Ferrando is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health and Vice Chair for Psychosomatic Medicine and Departmental operations at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College. He graduated from Northwestern University Medical School, did his psychiatry residency training at the University of California, San Francisco and subsequently did an NIMH-funded HIV/AIDS neuropsychiatry research training fellowship at Weill Cornell. Dr. Ferrando has focused his clinical work and research on the neuropsychiatric and quality of life aspects of chronic illnesses, particularly HIV/AIDS and neurological disorders. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and serves as a peer reviewer for both medical and psychiatric journals. Dr. Ferrando is editor-in-chief of Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal; "Psychiatry In-Review," a psychiatry board review guide; and he is co-editor of Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill, published by the American Psychiatric-Press, Inc. Dr. Ferrando is past president of the New York Area Society for Liaison Psychiatry, is a Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a member of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on AIDS.

Thomas W. Heinrich, MD, FAPM

Thomas Heinrich, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, completed his medical degree and a combined residency in psychiatry and family medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He then completed a fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in consultation psychiatry. He is board-certified in family medicine and general adult psychiatry, and subspecialty-certified in consultation psychiatry/psychosomatic medicine. Dr. Heinrich currently serves as Chief of Consultation Psychiatry at Froedtert Hospital and Director of the Division of Consultation Psychiatry within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Most recently, Dr. Heinrich was appointed Vice Chairman for Clinical Services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. In this newly created position, he will oversee development of the department’s academic specialty and subspecialty clinical programs.

David W. Kissane, MPM, MD, DObstRCOG, FRACGP, FRANZCP, FAChPM

David W. Kissane, MD is the Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psycho-oncology and Chairman of the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He is also Attending Psychiatrist at both Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, and is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kissane obtained his initial medical degree and later research doctorate from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Across his 35-year medical career, he has trained in family medicine, psychiatry of the medically ill and palliative medicine. His academic interests include group and family psychotherapy trials, communication skills training, studies of existential distress, and the ethics of end-of-life care. His research has been extensively published in these areas. Dr. Kissane’s work was recognized by IPOS in 2008 with their Arthur Sutherland Award. Dr. Kissane served as the President of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) from 2000 to 2003.

Jennifer M. Knight, MD

Jennifer M. Knight, MD is currently a Senior Instructor and a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellow at the Rochester Center for Mind Body Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center. Clinical appointments include attending as an Internist on the Behavioral Medical and Surgical Unit and as a Psychiatrist on the Consultation-Liaison Service. Research interests include psychoneuroimmunology as it relates to Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction outcomes in older adults and psychosocially mediated clinical and immunological outcomes in bone marrow transplant patients. She is also honored to have been a 2009-2010 APM Webb Fellow.

James L. Levenson, MD, FAPM

Dr. Levenson is Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, and Surgery at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where he is also Chair, Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and Vice-chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Psychiatry. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters, and five books, including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine, Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill, and  Psychiatry Essentials for Primary Care. His scholarly interests include psychiatric disorders and their treatment in the medically ill, psychological factors’ effects on health care utilization, and medical ethics.

He is past president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. He currently serves as chair of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s Committee for Subspecialization in Psychosomatic Medicine. He is a member of the DSM-V Work Group on Somatic Distress Disorders. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Psychosomatics, Psychological Medicine, and General Hospital Psychiatry. He has served on the National Board of Medical Examiners’ USMLE 3 Committee. In his university’s health system, he has chaired the Ethics Committee for the past 20 years, and has served on the boards of the Clinical Practice Plan, the Malpractice Plan, and the university’s Medicaid HMO. He has received his Medical School and his University’s highest teaching awards, as well as his Health System’s highest award as a clinician. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Liaison Psychiatry. Dr. Levenson is also a member of the Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome Information Service Advisory Council.

Dr. Levenson attended medical school at the University of Michigan, followed by internal medicine internship at the University of Oregon, psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado, and consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at Westchester County Medical Center. He is board-certified in Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, and Geriatric Psychiatry.

José R. Maldonado, M.D., FAPM, FACFE

Dr. José Maldonado received his bachelor's degree in biology and education at Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He received his medical degree at Ponce School of Medicine and his psychiatric training at Temple University in Philadelphia. This was followed by additional training in Forensic Psychiatry at Temple University and a fellowship in Consultation-Liaison/Neuropsychiatry at the New England Medical Center/Tufts University, in Boston.

Dr. Maldonado is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and, by courtesy, of Medicine and Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. He serves as the Chief of the Medical and Forensic Psychiatry Section, and Medical Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Service.  Dr. Maldonado is also the psychiatric consultant to all six tranplant teams at Stanford University Medical Center. In September 2003 Dr Maldonado joined the faculty of Stanford’s Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Dr. Maldonado’s areas of clinical and research interest include: the neurobiology and management of delirium; the neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury; factitious disorder & Munchausen's syndrome; cultural diversity in medical care; pychosocial assessment of organ transplant recipients; psychiatric complications of solid organ and bone marrow transplantation; pathophysiology and treatment of conversion disorder; depression in the medically ill; neuropsychiatric consequences of medical illness and its treatment; application of hypnosis in psychiatry and medicine; and diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders.

Among his many accomplishments Dr. Maldonado received the Charles Shagass MD Award, for meritorious scholarly work during residency training. He is a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Psychiatry and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition, The Psychiatric Times recognized Dr. Maldonado with the Teacher of the Year Award in November 2001. In June 2003, Dr. Maldonado was awarded the Henry J. Kaiser Award at the Stanford University Scool of Medicine Commencement Ceremony for excellence in clinical teaching. He received the Researcher of the Year Award at the World Congress in Psychosomatic Medicine in August 2003. In 2004 and 2009 the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, awarded the Teacher of the Year Award. The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine honored Dr. Maldonado with the DLIN/Fischer Award,for significant achievement in clinical research in November 2004, and with the Dorfman Award for the best case report published in Psychosomatics in the year 2006. Again in 2009 the Academy honored him with the Dorfman Award, this time for Best Original Research for his work on delirium research.

Dr. Maldonado has over 110 publications to his name. Most recently he authored chapters in the American Psychiatric Association Textbook of Psychiatry and Psychiatry on Dissociative Disorders and Hypnosis, and recently published articles on Conversion Disorder, Factitious Disorders and Munchausen’s-by-Proxy; Neurobiology, Prevention and Treatment of Delirium;  and Transplantation. In addition he has delivered over 120 peer-reviewed and over 180 invited presentations and courses at national and international meetings.

Robert M. McCarron, DO

Robert McCarron, DO completed a dual residency in internal medicine and psychiatry at Rush University and is now board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine and internal medicine.  While on faculty as Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, he serves as the founding Training Director of the only California based combined internal medicine/psychiatry residency program.  In this role, he was recently awarded a $1.4 million grant from the California Department of Mental Health to create, replicate, and implement a med/psych curriculum that can be used by other primary care practitioner training programs. Dr. McCarron also oversees the UC Davis Med/Psych clinic where he serves as a primary care psychiatry consultant for the UC Davis Department of Internal Medicine. 

Dr. McCarron has numerous publications in the areas of unexplained physical complaints, depression and anxiety in the primary care setting, metabolic syndrome, and medical education.  He recently edited a textbook, Lippincott’s Primary Care Psychiatry, with a companion web site at psychiatryforpcp.com, and he spends much of his time training primary care practitioners in this area.  He is currently the President of the Central California Psychiatric Society and he sits on the American Psychiatric Association Assembly.  He serves as President of the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, a national organization with the mission of promoting general medical and psychiatric care in the areas of clinical research, patient care and medical education.  Dr. McCarron is the Section Medicine/Psychiatry Editor for Current Psychiatry and the Associate Editor for The Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

James Owen, PhD

Dr. James Owen is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and Pharmacology and Toxicology at Queen's University and Director of the Psychopharmacology Laboratory at Providence Care - Mental Health Services in Kingston, Ontario. He has authored numerous scientific publications and most recently co-edited the book Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill and authored the Psychopharmacology chapter of the American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychosomatic Medicine, Second Edition, edited by James Levenson.

Maryland Pao, MD, FAPM

Dr. Pao is the Clinical Director of the National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health. She serves as Chief of the Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service in the Hatfield Clinical Research Center. A native of Bethesda, she attended Wellesley College before completing a BA/MD program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She completed Pediatric and Psychiatric Residency training as well as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is board certified in Pediatrics, General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine. Her core research interests are in the complex interactions between somatic and psychiatric illnesses including pediatric oncology, pediatric HIV and other primary immunodeficiencies. She studies distress and its correlates in medically ill children. She has published more than 60 research articles and chapters, and co-edited the Quick Reference for Pediatric Oncology Clinicians: The Psychiatric and Psychological Dimensions of Pediatric Cancer symptom Management (2009). She is on the Clinical Faculty at Georgetown University, George Washington University and at Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine. Dr. Pao has been a member of APM since 1993 and became a Fellow in 2004. She has co-chaired the Pediatric SIG since 2005 and has been a Councilor since 2008 after serving as the Scientific Program Chair for APM in 2008.

Peter M. Shapiro, MD, FAPM

Dr. Peter Shapiro is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, and Director of Fellowship Training in Psychosomatic Medicine and Associate Director of the Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center. He graduated from Princeton University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, interned in Medicine at Jacobi Hospital, and was a resident and fellow in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Presbyterian Hospital.
Dr. Shapiro’s primary research focus has been in the area of psychiatric aspects of heart disease and transplantation. He was a co-investigator for the landmark SADHART and REMATCH trials, and collaborated in studies investigating hemodynamic, autonomic, and inflammatory responses associated with mental stress, depression, hostility, and exercise training. He is currently a co-investigator for three federally-funded studies. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed original papers and 20 book chapters.

Dr. Shapiro is a past president of the Society for Liaison Psychiatry, the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the American Psychosomatic Society. He has been a member of the Risk Prevention and Health Behavior-3 study section at NIH, a Boards examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a founding member of the ABPN Psychosomatic Medicine certification committee. He is the recipient of the Dlin-Fischer Prize for Clinical Research from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Bakken Prize for contributions to Heart-Brain Medicine.

Michael Sharpe, MD, FAPM

Michael Sharpe, MD is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has researched and written about somatoform disorders for more than 20 years. He currently leads a joint psychiatry/neurology research programme on the nature epidemiology and treatment of somatoform and conversion disorders. He is currently a member of the Somatoform Disorders Workgroup for DSM-V. He was the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists' Academic Psychiatrist of the Year in 2009.

Brian Tilow

Mr. Tilow is the Senior Vice President of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, Center for Behavioral Health. The Center for Behavioral Health is the largest inpatient provider in the midwest and continues to focus on consultation-liaison services, outpatient, and IOP services.

Mr. Tilow has led two other healthcare organizations: Health Alliance of Cincinnati and TriHealth in Cincinnati, Ohio in Inpatient and Outpatient Psychiatric Care, Long Term Psychiatric and Medical Care, and Hospice and Managed Medicare and Medicaid for the geriatric population. Mr. Tilow continues to focus on development, centralization, integration, and local and regional market growth.

Jürgen Unützer, MD, MA, MPH

Dr. Unützer is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based behavioral health interventions into effective clinical and public health practice. He has over 200 scientific publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.

Dr. Unützer is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington and Chief of Psychiatric Services at the UW Medical Center. He also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor of Health Services at the UW School of Public Health and Affiliate Investigator at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Unützer directs the AIMS Center (uwaims.org) dedicated to "Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions" and the IMPACT Program (impact-uw.org) which has supported national and international testing and implementation of an evidence based program for depression care. IMPACT has been shown in randomized controlled trials to double the effectiveness of usual care for depression while lowering long-term health care costs. In recent years, Dr. Unützer’s work has focused on developing and supporting local, regional, and state-wide partnerships that improve access to evidence-based care through workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care (integratedcare-nw.org).

Dr. Unützer has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations dedicated to improving behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award in Aging Research from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Oken Fellowship from the American Psychosomatic Society.

Dr. Unützer trained in Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University) and Public Health (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry/Health Services Research at the University of Washington.

Christopher White, MD, JD, FCLM

Chris White, MD, JD, FCLM, is currently serving as an assistant professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is the medical director of the psychiatric consultation service at University Hospital in Cincinnati. As a recent graduate of the combined residency in Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, he was additionally tapped to serve as associate training director. He demonstrated his predilection for combined training (and vocational indecisiveness) by earning his MD/JD degree from Southern Illinois University’s dual Law and Medicine program. Prior to seeing snow for the first time, his undergraduate training was in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Despite being a busy clinician, he still finds time to root for the Trojans and whoever is playing Notre Dame and UCLA.

Linda L.M. Worley, MD, FAPM

Dr. Linda Worley is an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine serving as the M.D. faculty member in the (quarterly) Center for Professional Health, Distressed Physicians’ Course. She has been on academic faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock since 1992, and continues there part-time as a Professor of Psychiatry with a secondary appointment in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Dr. Worley has special expertise in health care provider wellness, non-verbal communication, women’s mental health and psychosomatic medicine. Dr. Worley is currently the Secretary of the APM and the 2010 Annual Meeting Committee Chair. She is an ABPN Board Examiner and a Past President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry. In 2010, she has been a professional speaker for the State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company (a physicians’ owned and operated medical malpractice company) teaching more than 8,000 physicians to recognize non-verbal communications and to better care for various types of difficult patients.

Lawson Wulsin, MD, FAPM

Lawson Wulsin is Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. He is the Program Director for the Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program and Director of the Cincinnati VA Medical Center’s Priamry Care Mental Health Integration Program. His subspecialty is Psychosomatic Medicine, and his research interests have focused on the relationship between depression and heart disease. In 2007 he published a book titled Treating the Aching Heart: A Guide to Depression, Stress, and Heart Disease.