| Dr. Alison Heru 
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Program Director
Associate Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
Development of family-centered treatment in psychiatry, teaching trainees how to work with families and the role of relational factors in medical and psychiatric illness. |
Psychiatry
Psychosomatic medicine |
| Dr. Frederick Wamboldt
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Associate Program Director Professor of Psychiatry
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Patient- and family-centered clinical efforts with persons suffering from chronic respiratory, allergic, and immune illness, and research interests in the area of psychosocial factors influencing treatment adherence and outcome in patients and families dealing with chronic medical illness, as well as systems change within healthcare practice and public health policy. |
Psychiatry
Psychosomatic medicine |
| Dr. Philippe Weintraub
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Associate Program Director Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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The relationship between family factors and adherence to medical treatment in adult and pediatric populations and the impact of co-morbid psychiatric illness, particularly depression, on clinical course and outcome in diabetes. The prevalence of depression in adult pulmonary hypertension as well as the impact of depression on the clinical course of the disorder. The assessment of decisional capacity in complex clinical circumstances and is part of a multi-site group studying clinical and ethical considerations in cases involving requests for withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment by young adults with recent-onset high quadriplegia. |
Psychiatry
Child psychiatry
Psychosomatic medicine |
| Dr. David Bekelman |
Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine |
Innovative ways of using palliative care practices with patients suffering from various severe, chronic medical illnesses. Research on measuring and improving quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure |
Internal medicine
Palliative care Medicine
Psychiatry
Psychosomatic medicine |
| Dr. Thomas Beresford
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Professor of Psychiatry |
Clinical research in liver transplant and alcoholism. Identifying and addressing the prognostic factors that support continued abstinence post-transplant, the neuropsychiatric complications following transplant, including specific forms of delirium related to the immunosuppressant agents, and clinical issues in the evaluation of living donors, especially psychiatric contraindications. The prognostic aspects of psychological adaptive mechanisms in respect to cancer treatment and survival. |
Psychiatry
Addiction psychiatry
Psychosomatic medicine |
| Dr. Robert House
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Associate Professor
Vice-chairman representing Denver Health for the Department of Psychiatry
Director of Service for Behavioral Health, Denver Health Medical Center |
Solid organ transplantation programs, trauma surgery services, and correctional care programs. Consultation-liaison education and consultation in a Public Hospital setting. |
Psychiatry |