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Yeates Conwell, M.D.
Discipline: Psychiatry
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BiographyDr. Yeates Conwell is Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York. He also maintains a private practice (part time) in general and geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Conwell received his BA degree from Princeton University and his MD degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He completed his postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Board-certified by the National Board of Medical Examiners and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry, he is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of various other national and international academic and professional organizations, including the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Association of Suicidology, the International Psychogeriatric Association, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; he also is an elected member of the Academy for Suicide Research. He is recipient of the National Psychiatric Endowment Fund-Laughlin Award as the outstanding resident in psychiatry from Yale University School of Medicine (1984), the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award 91988-1993), and the American Association of Suicidology Edwin A. Shneidman Award for outstanding research contributions in the field of suicidology (1994). In addition, he was selected by his peers to be included in the 1994 and 1998 editions of The Best Doctors in America. Dr. Conwell has lectured extensively at major national and international professional meetings and has written numerous chapters and journal articles on suicide and depression in the elderly. In addition, he is consulting editor for Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior and a member of the editorial boardsof the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. He also serves as ad-hoc reviewer for a number of other professional journals. The National Institute of Mental Health has continuously funded Dr. Conwell's research on suicide in later life since 1987.
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