UPMC Synergies Fall 2014

Presenters

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  David J. Kupfer, MD

  Dr. David J. Kupfer is the Thomas Detre professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and chaired the American Psychiatric Association Task Force for DSM-5.

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  Ellen Frank, PhD

  Dr. Ellen Frank is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Depression and Manic Depression Prevention program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Frank and her colleagues developed a new psychotherapy?interpersonal and social rhythm therapy?for the treatment of manic depressive illness under a MERIT award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She recently completed an NIMH-sponsored study of women with recurrent depression in which she examined how psychobiology, life stress, and different ?doses? of psychotherapy interact to increase or decrease vulnerability to new episodes of depression. In addition, Frank is completing a joint project with researchers at the University of Pisa, Italy, aimed at achieving a better understanding of the clinical importance of subsyndromal mood, anxiety and eating disorders?that is, when the symptoms are not severe enough for diagnosis as a clinically recognized syndrome. An expert in mood disorders and their treatment, Frank was Chair of the Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Panel. She also is a former member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council. She currently serves on the Mood Disorders Workgroup of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on DSM-V. Frank is an honorary fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In 1999 Dr. Frank was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. A graduate of Vassar College, Frank earned a master?s degree in English at Carnegie Mellon University and a doctorate in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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  Charles F. Reynolds III, MD

  Charles F. Reynolds III, MD, is distinguished professor of psychiatry, neurology, behavioral and community Sciences, and clinical and translational science, and UPMC endowed professor in geriatric psychiatry. He is director of the Aging Institute of UPMC Senior Services and University of Pittsburgh, and the NIMH-sponsored Center of Excellence in the Prevention and Treatment of Late Life Mood Disorders, and the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry. Dr. Reynolds is internationally renowned in the field of geriatric psychiatry. His primary research interests focus on mood, grief, and sleep disorders of later life, with a particular focus on mental health services in primary care, improving treatment strategies, depression prevention, and promotion of brain health in older adults. He has served the Corbett administration as a member of the Pennsylvania Long-term Care Commission and the Pennsylvania Alzheimer?s Disease State Planning Committee. He also served on Governor Wolfe?s transition team for Aging. Dr. Reynolds? bibliography contains more than 700 publications in peer-reviewed journals with an H-Index of 81 (June 2016), which he has written over the past three decades. Dr. Reynolds is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and has also served on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychiatry and JAMA Psychiatry. He has published his work in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Archives of General Psychiatry. Dr. Reynolds graduated magna cum laude from the University of Virginia before earning his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine in 1973. He then completed a straight medical internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal Neurological Hospital and continued on to post-graduate work in adult and geriatric psychiatry and sleep disorders at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

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