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Adult Psychiatry | Child Psychiatry | Forensic Psychiatry
Psychology | Joint Appointments | Emeriti

DEPARTMENT HEAD:

  • Robert G. Robinson, MD
    The Paul W. Penningroth Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mood disorders associated with stroke and traumatic brain injury; Current studies include treatment protocols, imaging and magnetic brain stimulation.

    Phone: 319-356-1144
    E-mail: robert-robinson@uiowa.edu


ADULT PSYCHIATRY

  • Alison C. Abreu, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Family Medicine
    Director, Adult Outpatient Services

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Obstetrics; mental health conditions before, during and after pregnancy; mental health treatment in primary care; consultation psychiatry; resident education.

    Phone: 319-384-6289
    Email: alison-abreu@uiowa.edu

  • Arnold E. Andersen, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Anorexia nervosa; bulimia nervosa; regulatory mechanisms of eating behavior; medical complications of eating disorders; males with eating disorders.

    Phone: 319-356-1354
    E-mail: arnold-andersen@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Brain imaging; schizophrenia; genetic and family studies; creativity

    Phone: 319-356-1553
    E-mail: nancy-andreasen@uiowa.edu

  • James Amos, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Many areas of Psychosomatic Medicine including somatoform disorders, transplantation psychiatry, combined psychiatric and medical illness, multidisciplinary approaches to quality improvement in mental health care delivery processes in the medically ill, integrating medical and psychiatric treatment and educating trainees in this approach.

    Phone: 319-384-6738
    E-mail: james-amos@uiowa.edu

  • Stephan Arndt, PhD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Biobehavioral statistics; applications of psychometric and measurement theory; substance abuse, implementing evidence based practices.

    Phone: 319-353-4852
    E-mail: stephan-arndt@uiowa.edu

  • James Beeghly, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Correlates of aggression and hyperactivity in children; biologic and psychological correlates of alcoholism; Infantile Autism — treatment and biologic markers

    Phone: 319-354-6285
    E-mail: james-beeghly@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-384-6047
    E-mail: ole-behrendtsen@uiowa.edu

  • Stephanie Berg, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Assistant Clerkship Director

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Women's Mental Health, including personality disorders, chronic pelvic pain, eating disorders, psychiatric illness in female veterans; Scholarship in education.

    Phone: 319-353-6834
    E-mail: stephanie-berg@uiowa.edu

  • Donald W. Black, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Obsessive-compulsive disorder; antisocial personality disorder

    Phone: 319-353-4431
    E-mail: donald-black@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Alcoholism and outcome studies with an emphasis on affective and anxiety disorder

    Phone: 319-338-0581, ext. 5400
    E-mail: brian-cook@uiowa.edu

  • William H. Coryell, MD
    The George Winokur Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Affective disorders--nosology, natural history, and epidemiology

    Phone: 319-353-4434
    E-mail: william-coryell@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Geriatric psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry fellowship program

    Phone: 319-384-8211
    E-mail: judith-crossett@uiowa.edu

  • Jess G. Fiedorowicz, MD
    Associate in Psychiatry

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Cardiovascular risk and lipid metabolism in affective disorders; combined psychotherapy and medication management for affective disorders.

    Phone: 319-353-4333
    E-mail: jess-fiedorowicz@uiowa.edu

  • Michael A. Flaum, MD
    Associate Professor
    Director, Iowa Consortium for Mental Health Services, Training, and Research
    Co-Director, Mental Health Clinical Research Center

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mental health services research; provision of psychiatric services in the state of Iowa; telemedicine applications in psychiatry; diagnostic and phenomenological assessment methods in clinical and research settings

    Phone: 319-353-4340
    E-mail: michael-flaum@uiowa.edu

  • Michael J. Garvey, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mood disorders; psychopharmacology; neurotransmitters

    Phone: 319-338-0581, ext 5400
    E-mail: michael-garvey@uiowa.edu

  • Beng Choon Ho, MD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Genetic variability associated with neurocognitive and brain morphometric endophenotypes of schizophrenia, Early detection, Long-term outcome of schizophrenia

    Phone: 319-354-8447
    E-mail: beng-ho@uiowa.edu

  • Hans Johnson, PhD
    Associate
    System Administrator, Neuroimaging Lab

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Accelerating brain research through software engineering best practices; Inverse consistent high dimensional non-linear warping; Neuro-informatics; collaborative tools for facilitating geographically distributed projects

    Phone: 319-353-8587
    E-mail: hans-johnson@uiowa.edu

  • Ricardo E. Jorge, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-353-4238
    E-mail: ricardo-jorge@uiowa.edu

  • Vicki Kijewski, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Psychiatry and Internal Medicine

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Geriatric psychiatry, the interfaces between medicine and psychiatry, medical symptomatology and comorbidity among the elderly with psychiatric disease

    Phone 319-353-8647
    E-mail: vicki-kijewski@uiowa.edu

  • Robin Cook Kopelman, MD
    Associate in Psychiatry

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Women's mental health - perinatal psychiatric disorders; community mental health services; family mental health; prevalence of post-partum depression in the male partner.

    Phone: 319-353-3976
    Email: robin-cook@uiowa.edu

  • Douglas R. Langbehn, MD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Biostatistical applications in psychiatry, Huntington's Disease; the epidemiology and etiology of substance abuse and antisocial personality; screening exams for personality disorder, classification and artificial intelligence.

    Phone: 319-384-4455
    E-mail: douglas-langbehn@uiowa.edu

  • Jerry L. Lewis, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor
    Director of Electroconculsive Therapy Services.

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mood disorders, ECT, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorders, switch effect of certin psychotropic medications

    Phone: 319-354-5630
    E-mail: jerry-lewis@uiowa.edu
    Personal Web pagehttp://www.jlewis4rivers.yourmd.com

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

    Phone: 319-384-9364
    E-mail: jill-liesveld@uiowa.edu

  • Linda K. Madson, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Treatment of psychiatric disorders in adults

    Phone: 319-353-6314

  • Laurie McCormick, MD
    Associate
    Co-Director of Electroconvulsive Therapy Services

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Neuroimaging--Positron Emission Tomography, Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and Electroencephalography with quantitative and low-resolution electromagnetic tomography analysis.

    Areas of Interest - Anorexia Nervosa and Eating Disorders; Estrogen Effects on Women's Mental health; Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy and Abnormal Brain Circuitry in Psychotic Depression; Mirror Neuron Dysfunction in Schizophrenia; Brain Stimulation Methods

    Phone: 319-384-7136
    E-mail: laurie-mccormick@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Psychopharmacology and neurobiology of schizophrenia

    Phone: 319-353-6072
    E-mail: del-miller@uiowa.edu

  • Angeles Morcuende, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Cultural competence in psychiatry, public and community psychiatry, treatment of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and personality disorders.

    Phone: 319-353-5438
    E-mail: angeles-morcuende@uiowa.edu

  • Peggy C. Nopoulos, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Brain structure and function in Oralfacial Clefting disorders; schizophrenia

    Phone: 319-353-4233
    E-mail: peggy-nopoulos@uiowa.edu

  • Daniel O'Leary, PhD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Neuroimaging -- PET, fMRI, MRI; neuropsychology and neurobiology of schizophrenia; drug effects on brain function; brain maturation and cognitive development; neurobiology of cognition

    Phone: 319-356-3897
    E-mail: daniel-oleary@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Behavioral and emotional disorders in brain injury, emotion and cognitive neuroscience research using positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial magnetic stimulation; cerebellar involvement in cognition and emotion; neuropsychology, behavioral, and psychiatric disorders of epilepsy; drug plasma level monitoring in psychiatry; neurophysiology of sleep

    Phone: 319-353-4885
    E-mail: sergio-paradiso@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-356-1350
    E-mail: bruce-pfohl@uiowa.edu

  • Marcus Pressler, MD
    Associate

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Schizophrenia and neuro-imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS).

    Phone: 319-353-8509
    E-mail: marcus-pressler@uiowa.edu

  • Robert Philibert, MD, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Developmental neuroscience; bipolar affective disorder; schizophrenia

    Phone: 319-353-4986
    E-mail: robert-philibert@uiowa.edu

  • Susan K. Schultz, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Geriatric issues in psychiatry - Aging, dementia, psychosis in late life; antipsychotic use in the elderly, cognitive enhancers, mild cognitive impairment.

    Phone: 319-355-6956
    E-mail: susan-schultz@uiowa.edu

  • Robert Smith, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Resident education; psychopharmacology

    Phone: 319-338-0581, Ext. 5445
    Email:robert.smith29e29c@med.va.gov

  • Scott P. Stuart, MD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Psychotherapy; antenatal and post partum psychiatric disorders; personality disorder; affective disorders; somatoform disorders

    Phone: 319-353-4230
    E-mail: scott-stuart@uiowa.edu

  • Debra Suda, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Driving in teens and those with ADHD; Bipolar Disorder in children and adolescents; ADHD through the lifespan; Pervasive developmental Disorders through teh lifespan; Tourette's Syndrome; Minority and Disabled Student concerns in elementary through graduate schools.

    Phone: 319-626-5680
    E-mail: debra-suda@uiowa.edu

  • Victor W. Swayze, II, MD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Brain imaging; neuropsychiatric disorders

    Phone: 319-338-0581, ext 5400
    E-mail: victor-swayze@uiowa.edu

  • Janeta F. Tansey, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Philospohical and religious topics in psychiatry; medical and psychiatric ethics; student and residen education.

    Phone: 319-353-6310
    E-mail: janeta-tansey@uiowa.edu

  • Jodi Tate, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Treatment of psychiatric disorders in adults

    Phone: 319-345-5715
    E-mail: jodi-tate@uiowa.edu

  • Thomas A. Wassink, MD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Genetics of schizophrenia and genetics of autism

    Phone: 319-355-7743
    E-mail: thomas-wassink@uiowa.edu

  • Michelle Weckmann, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Palliative medicine; End of Life care

    Phone: 319-356-8114
    E-mail: michelle-weckmann@uiowa.edu

  • Christopher Welsh, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Community Psychiatry

    Phone: 319-356-4870
    E-mail: christopher-welsh@uiowa.edu

  • John Wemmie, MD, PhD
    Associate in Psychiatry

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-338-0581, ext 5400
    E-mail: john-wemmie@uiowa.edu

  • Allison Williams, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Co-Director, Residency Training

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Psychosomatic psychiatry

    Phone: 319-384-6821
    E-mail: allison-williams@uiowa.edu

  • Nancy A. Williams, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Improving the quality and efficiency in psychiatric service delivery to the seriously mentally ill; mental health care in the community setting

    Phone: 319-356-3869
    E-mail: nancy-williams@uiowa.edu

  • Catherine Woodman, MD
    Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Family Medicine
    Director, Residency Training

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Anxiety disorders; somatoform disorders

    Phone: 319-338-0581, ext 5400
    E-mail: catherine-woodman@uiowa.edu


CHILD PSYCHIATRY

  • James Beeghly, MD
    Clinical Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Correlates of aggression and hyperactivity in children; biologic and psychological correlates of alcoholism; Infantile Autism — treatment and biologic markers

    Phone: 319- 354-6285
    E-mail: james-beeghly@uiowa.edu

  • Sarah F. Brown, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mood disorders in children; ADHD

    Phone: 319-356-4651
    E-mail: sarah-f-brown@uiowa.edu

  • Chadi Calarge, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    The long-term safety of psychiatric medications (psychostimulants & antipsychotics) in children and adolescents and the use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to investigate the biological basis of neuropsychiatric diseases and the CNS effects of psychotropics.

    Phone: 319-335-8771
    E-mail: chadi-calarge@uiowa.edu

  • Gary R. Gaffney, MD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Brain imaging; Tourette/tic disorder and self-abuse syndromes; psychopharmacology of anxiety disorders in children

    Phone: 319-353-6695
    E-mail: gary-gaffney@uiowa.edu

  • Anne F. Kolar, MD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Director, Child Residency Training

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Substance abuse treatment and prevention in adolescents, mental health assessment and care in adolescent substance abuse treatment centers

    Phone: 319-356-0472
    E-mail: anne-kolar@uiowa.edu

  • Samuel Kuperman, MD
    Professor
    Director, Division of Child Psychiatry
    Assistant Director, Child Residency Training

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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

    Phone: 319-356-1482
    E-mail: samuel-kuperman@uiowa.edu


FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

  • Tracy D. Gunter, MD
    Assistant Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Pretrial evaluations (civil and criminal), correctional psychiatry (special intrest gender issues), telepsychiatry, adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and co-occurring disorders.

    Phone: 319-353-4444
    E-mail: tracy-gunter@uiowa.edu


PSYCHOLOGY

  • John D. Bayless, PhD
    Clinical Associate Professor
    Clinical Neuropsychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Clinical utility of neuropsychological measures; dichotic listening in Huntington’s Disease

    Phone: 319-356-2063
    E-mail: john-bayless@uoiwa.edu

  • Leigh Beglinger, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Clinical Neuropsychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-335-8765
    E-mail: leigh-beglinger@uiowa.edu

  • Wayne A. Bowers, PhD
    Clinical Professor
    Clinical Psychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-353-6301
    E-mail: wayne-bowers@uiowa.edu

  • Kevin Duff, PhD
    Assistant Professor
    Clinical Neuropsychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Clinical neuropsychology, aging and dementia, assessing cognitive change across time, Huntington's disease, serious and persistent mental illness, electrical and lightning injuries, psychometric issues in assessment

    Phone: 319-335-6640
    E-mail: kevin-duff@uiowa.edu

  • Patricia Espe-Pfeifer, PhD
    Clinical Assistant Professor
    Neuropsychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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; and neuropsychological functioning of children and adolescents with psychiatric illness.

    Phone: 319-356-1353
    E-mail: EspePfeiferP@mail.medicine.uiowa.edu

  • David J. Moser, PhD
    Associate Professor
    Clinical Neuropsychologist

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Vascular disease and cognition in the elderly; Cognitive funtioning 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.

    Phone: 319-353-4360
    E-mail: david-moser@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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, and adolescents/young adults with cardiac conditions

    Phone: 319-353-6040
    E-mail: karen-nelson@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Huntington’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, dementia, psychoses, tardive dyskinesia, neuropsychological features and correlates of the above.

    Phone: 319-353-4551
    E-mail: jane-paulsen@uiowa.edu

  • Scott Temple, PhD
    Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    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.

    Phone: 319-353-8385
    E-mail: scott-temple@uiowa.edu

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

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Mother-child interactions and child behavior problems in children of depressed mothers; childhood anxiety disorders, attachment disorders, foster care, psychotherapy for children

    Phone: 319-356-1193
    E-mail: beth-troutman@uiowa.edu

  • Carolyn Turvey, PhD
    Associate Professor

    Research Interests and Treatment Specialties
    Major depression and suicide in late-life, psychiatric epidemiology, bipolar disorder Phone: 319-353-5312
    E-mail: carolyn-turvey@uiowa.edu


JOINT APPOINTMENTS

  • Bruce Alexander, PharmD
    Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Psychiatry

  • George R. Bergus, MD
    Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

  • Kathleen C. Buckwalter, PhD
    Professor of Nursing and Psychiatry

  • David M. Rosenthal, PhD
    Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry

  • Veronica J. Vieland, PhD
    Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Psychiatry


EMERITI

  • Arthur Canter, PhD
  • Raymond R. Crowe, MD
  • Harold A. Mulford, PhD
  • Herbert L. Nelson, MD
  • Russell Noyes, Jr., MD
  • Rafiq Waziri, MD

 

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