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Alison C. Abreu, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Psychiatry and Family Medicine Director, Adult Outpatient Services

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Obstetrics
• Mental health conditions before, during, and after pregnancy
• Mental health treatment in primary care
• Consultation psychiatry
• Resident education

 


   


Arnold E. Andersen, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Cornell University Medical College, New York

Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Areas of Interest:
• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• Regulatory mechanisms of eating behavior
• Medical complications of eating disorders
• Males with eating disorders.

 


   


Nancy C. Andreasen, MD, PhD
The Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry
Mental Health Clinical Research Center

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

PhD: University of Nebraska

Areas of Interest:
• Brain imaging
• Schizophrenia
• Genetic and family studies
• Creativity


   


Stephan Arndt, PhD
Professor

Undergraduate: Loyola University of Los Angeles

PhD: Claremont Graduate School (CA)

Areas of Interest:
• Biobehavioral statistics
• Application of psychometric and measurement theory
• Substance abuse
• Implementing evidence-based practices


   


John D. Bayless, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Neuropsychologist

Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, College of Letters and Science

PhD: University of Iowa, College of Education

Areas of Interest:
• Clinical utility of neuropsychological measures
• Dichotic listening in Huntington’s Disease


   


James Beeghly, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: West Virginia University Medical School

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Correlates of aggression and hyperactivity in children
• Biologic and psychological correlates of alcoholism
• Infantile autism – treatment and biological markers



leigh beglinger
 


Leigh Beglinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Clinical Neuropsychologist

Undergraduate: University of Idaho

PhD: Washington State University

Areas of Interest:
• Clinical neuropsychology
• Practice effects on neuropsychological tests and assessment of cognitive change in pharmaceutical studies
• Visual memory in patient groups
• Huntington's disease
• Functional neuroimaging


   


Ole Behrendtsen, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Internal Medicine and Psychiatry Residency Program

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• >Bidirectional impact of medical and psychiatric problems
• Delirium
• Sickness behavior
• Somatoform disorders
• Cytokine involvement in psychiatric disorders
• Neuroactive steroids
• Evolving fields of psychoneuroendocrinology, and psychoneuroimmunology


   


Donald W. Black, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Director, Residency Training

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Antisocial personality disorder


   


Wayne Bowers, PhD
Clinical Professor
Clinical Psychiatrist

Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, WI

PhD: University of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• Cognitive therapy (use with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, inpatients)
• Cognitive change among depression, personality, and eating disorders
• Neuropsychological impairment in eating disorders
• Weight maintenance for anorexia nervosa after discharge


   


Chadi Calarge, MD
Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences – Dekwaneh, Lebanon

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Long-term safety of psychiatric medications (psychostimulants & antipsychotics) in children and adolescents
• Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to investigate the biological basis of neuropsychiatric diseases
• CNS effects of psychotropics


   


Brian L. Cook, DO
Professor
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs

Medical/Graduate School: College of Osteopathic Medicine (Des Moines)

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Alcoholism
• Outcome studies with an emphasis on affective and anxiety disorder


   


William H. Coryell, MD
The George Winokur Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Medical College of GA (Augusta)

Residency: Washington University at St. Louis

Areas of Interest:
• Affective Disorders – nosology, natural history, and epidemiology


   


Judith H.W. Crossett, MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Geriatric Fellowship program

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

PhD: University of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• Geriatric psychiatry
• Geriatric psychiatry fellowship program


   


Eric Epping, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics


   


Patricia Espe-Pfeifer, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Neuropsychologist

Residency: University of Virginia

Undergraduate: Jamestown College

PhD: Nova Southeastern University

Areas of Interest:
• Pediatric and adult clinical neuropsychology
• Mild to moderate traumatic brain injury
• Sport-related concussion
• ADHD
• Neuropsychological assessment of patients with general medical conditions (e.g., seizure disorders, sleep apnea, eating disorders, and chronic pain) Neuropsychological assessment of candidates for organ transplant
• Neuropsychological functioning of children and adolescents with psychiatric illness


Jess G. Fiedorowicz, MD  


Jess G. Fiedorowicz, MD
Assistant Professor in Psychiatry

Medical/Graduate School: Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee)

Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Areas of Interest:
• Vascular disease in affective disorders
• Suicide and suicide risk assessment
• Combined psychotherapy and medication management in affective disorders



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Michael A. Flaum, MD
Associate professor
Director, Iowa Consortium for Mental Health Services, training, and research
Co-Director, Mental Health Clinical Research Center

Medical/Graduate School: State University of New York, Health Science Center at Stony Brook College of Medicine

Residency: New York University Medical Center

Areas of Interest:
• Mental health services research
• Provision of psychiatric services in the state of Iowa
• Telemedicine applications in psychiatry
• Diagnostic and phenomenological assessment of methods in clinical and research settings


   


Gary R. Gaffney, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Brain imaging
• Tourette/tic disorder and self-abuse syndromes
• Psychopharmacology of anxiety disorders in children


   


Michael J. Garvey, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Stanford University

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Area of Interest:
• Mood disorders
• Psychopharmacology
• Neurotransmitters


   


Beng Choon Ho, MD
Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: National University of Singapore, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore

Residency: U of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• Genetic variability associated with neurocognitive and brain morphometric endophenotypes of schizophrenia,
• Early detection
• Long-term outcome of schizophrenia


Hans Johnson, PhD  


Hans Johnson, PhD
Associate System Administrator
Neuroimaging Lab

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Accelerating brain research through software engineering best practices
• Inverse consistent high dimensional non-linear warping
• Neuro-informatics; collaborative tools for facilitating geographically distributed projects


   


Ricardo E. Jorge, MD
Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Buenos Aires University, Argentina

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Mood disorder following traumatic brain injury
• Treatment of post-stroke depression with transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Vascular depression and magnetic stimulation therapy
• Treatment strategies - prevention of post-stroke depression


   


Vicki Kijewski, MD

Clinical Associate Professor;
Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

Medical/Graduate School: University of Missouri – Columbia, College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Geriatric psychiatry
• The interfaces between medicine and psychiatry
• Medical symptomatology
• Comorbidity among the elderly with psychiatric disease


   


Anne F. Kolar, MD
Clinical Associate Professor;
Director, Child Residency Training

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Pittsburgh (PA)

Areas of Interest:
• Substance abuse treatment and prevention in adolescents
• Mental health assessment and care in adolescent substance abuse treatment centers


   


Robin Cook Kopelman, MD
Associate in Psychiatry

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Women's mental health - perinatal psychiatric disorders
• Community mental health services
• Family mental health
• Prevalence of post-partum depression in the male partner


   


Samuel Kuperman, MD
Professor
Ida P. Haller Chair of Child Psychiatry
Director, Division of Child Psychiatry
Assistant Director, Child Residency Training

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Psychopathology of children with alcoholic parents
• EEG/ERP markers in probands and family members of probands with alcoholism
• Biological differences in hyperactives and controls
• Genetics of ADHD


   


Douglas R. Langbehn, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

PhD: University of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• Biostatistical applications in psychiatry
• Huntington's Disease
• Epidemiology and etiology of substance abuse and antisocial personality
• Screening exams for personality disorder, classification, and artificial intelligence


   


Jerry L. Lewis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor;
Director of Electroconvulsive Therapy

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Mood disorders
• ECT
• Anxiety disorders
• Attention deficit disorders
• Switch effect of certain psychotropic medications


   


Jill L. Liesveld, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Chemical Dependency Service

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

 


   


Linda K. Madson, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: Maine Medical Center (Portland)

Areas of Interest:
• Treatment of psychiatric disorders in adults



laurie mccormick
 


Laurie McCormick, MD
Associate
Co-director of Electroconvulsive Therapy Services

Medical/Graduate School: American University of the Caribbean – Montserrat, British West Indies

Residency: University of Oklahoma Health Services Center

Areas of Interest:
• Neuroimaging--Positron Emission Tomography
• Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Electroencephalography with quantitative and low-resolution electromagnetic tomography analysis
• Anorexia Nervosa and Eating Disorders
• Estrogen Effects on Women's Mental Health
• Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Abnormal Brain Circuitry in Psychotic Depression
• Brain Stimulation Methods


   


Jennifer McWilliams, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Nebraska

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics


   


Delwyn (Del) D. Miller, PharmD, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Pharmacology and neurobiology of schizophrenia


   


Angeles Morcuende, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Cultural competence in psychiatry
• Public and community psychiatry
• Treatment of complex post-traumatic stress disorder
• Personality disorders



david moser
 


David J. Moser, PhD
Associate Professor
Clinical Neuropsychologist

Medical/Graduate School: Colby College

Residency: University of Florida

Areas of Interest:
• Vascular disease and cognition in the elderly
• Cognitive functioning in schizophrenia
• >Eating disorders and other psychiatric conditions
• Neuropsychological effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Decision making and capacity for informed consent in psychiatric patients and other potentially vulnerable populations


   


Karen Nelson, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Psychologist (Child)

Medical/Graduate School: University of Texas – Austin

Residency: Northwestern University

Areas of Interest:
• Cognitive behavioral therapy,
• Anxiety in adults and children
• OCD in adults and children
• Eating disorders
• Oppositional/conduct disorders
• Psychological testing
• Group and family therapy with adolescents
• Adolescents/young adults with cardiac conditions


   


Peggy C. Nopoulos, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Brain structure and function in oral-facial clefting disorders
• Schizophrenia


   


Daniel O’Leary, PhD
Professor

Undergraduate: Bellarmine College (Louisville, KY)

PhD: University of Louisville

Areas of Interest:
• Neuroimaging -- PET, fMRI, MRI
• Neuropsychology and neurobiology of schizophrenia
• Drug effects on brain function
• Brain maturation and cognitive development
• Neurobiology of cognition



sergio paradios
 


Sergio Paradiso, MD
Associate Professor; Recipient 41st Mallinckrodt Scholar

Medical/Graduate School: University of Catania Medical School (Italy)

Residency: University of Catania (Italy)

Areas of Interest:
• Behavioral and emotional disorders in brain injury
• Emotion and cognitive neuroscience research using positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging
• Transcranial magnetic stimulationc
• Cerebellar involvement in cognition and emotion
• Neuropsychology, behavioral, and psychiatric disorders of epilepsy; drug plasma level monitoring in psychiatry; neurophysiology of sleep


   


Jane S. Paulsen, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry, Neurology, and Psychology
Chief, Psychology Service
Director, Huntington’s Disease Center of Excellence

Undergraduate: Simpson College (Indianola, IA)

PhD: U of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• >Huntington’s disease
• Alzheimer’s disease
• >Schizophrenia
• Dementia
• Psychoses
• Tardive dyskinesia
• Ceuropsychological features and correlates of the above



bruce pfohl
 


Bruce M. Pfohl, MD
Professor, Psychiatry, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Personality disorders - diagnosis, assessment, and treatment
• Effectiveness of psychotherapy and medications for the treatment of borderline personality disorder
• Implications of comorbidity of personality disorder with Axis I disorders


   


Robert Philibert, MD, PhD
Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• >Developmental neuroscience
• Bipolar affective disorder
• Schizophrenia


   


Susan Pike, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics



robert robinson
 


Robert G. Robinson, MD
Department Head
The Paul W. Penningroth Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Cornell University Medical Center

Residency: Cornell University Medical Center
Maudsley Exchange Resident, Johns Hopkins Hospital

Areas of Interest:
• Mood disorder associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury
• Current studies include treatment protocols
• Imaging
• Magnetic brain stimulation


   


Megan Smith, PhD
Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Pennsylvania State University


   


Robert Smith, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Resident education
• Psychopharmacology


   


Scott P. Stuart, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of KS School of Medicine

Residency: University of Pittsburgh, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Areas of Interest:
• Psychotherapy
• Antenatal and post partum psychiatric disorders
• Personality disorder
• Affective disorders
• Somatoform disorders


   


Debra Suda, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Driving in teens and those with ADHD
• Bipolar Disorder in children and adolescents
• ADHD through the lifespan
• Pervasive developmental disorders through the lifespan
• Tourette's syndrome
• Minority and Disabled Student concerns in elementary through graduate schools


   


Susan K. Schultz, MD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Geriatric issues in psychiatry – aging, dementia, psychosis in late life
• Antipsychotic use in the elderly
• Cognitive enhancers
• Mild cognitive impairment


   

 

Afshin Shirani, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Vienna, Australia

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics



   


Victor W. Swayze, II, MD
Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Loma Linda University, CA

Residency: Loma Linda University and J.L. Pettis Memorial VA Hospital

Areas of Interest:
• Brain imaging
• Neuropsychiatric disorders


   


Jodi Tate, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of North Dakota

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Treatment of psychiatric disorders in adults


   


Scott Temple, PhD
Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Oregon

Residency: Temple University (Philadelphia)

Areas of Interest:
• Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment (CBT) of anxiety, mood, and psychotic disorders in young people and adults
• Newer models of CBT, including Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Mechanisms of change in Cognitive-Behavior therapies


   


Beth R. Troutman, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor
Clinical Psychologist (Child)

Undergraduate: Creighton University

PhD: University of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• Mother-child interactions and child behavior problems in children of depressed mothers
• Childhood anxiety disorders
• Attachment disorders
• Foster care
• Psychotherapy for children


   


Carolyn Turvey, PhD
Associate Professor

Medical School; University of Connecticut

Residency: Yale University

Areas of Interest:
• Major depression and suicide in late-life
• Psychiatric epidemiology
• Bipolar disorder


   


Thomas A. Wassink, MD
Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Illinois – Chicago

Residency: Evanston Hospital (Northwestern University)

Area of Interest:
• Genetics of schizophrenia and genetics of autism


   


Michelle Weckmann, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: Medical College of Wisconsin

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Palliative medicine
• End of life care


   


Christopher Welsh, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Community psychiatry


   


John Wemmie, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in Psychiatry

Undergraduate: University of Iowa

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

PhD: University of Iowa

Areas of Interest:
• ASIC, acid sensing ion channel: Phenotypic analysis in mice and protein-protein interacts using yeast two-hybrid and biochemical approaches
• Ycflp, a yeast homologue of human CFTR: Cloning, characterization, localization, mutagenesis, transcriptional regulation
• Insulin Receptor and IFG-1 Receptor subunit characterization



alison williams
 


Allison Williams, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor;
Co-director, Residency Training

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Psychosomatic psychiatry


   


Nancy A. Williams, MD
Clinical Associate Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Areas of Interest:
• Improving the quality and efficiency in psychiatric service delivery to the seriously mentally ill
• Mental health care in the community setting


   

 

Jessica Wood, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor

Medical/Graduate School: University of Iowa Roy J.and Lucille A.Carver College of Medicine

Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

 


   


Catherine Woodman, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Family Medicine

Medical/Graduate School: Brown University (Providence, RI)

Residency: University of California – San Francisco – Fresno

Areas of Interest:
• Anxiety disorders
• Somatoform disorders

 

 

 

 

 

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