City-Wide Psychiatry Rounds - March 2025
Vivian Rakoff Memorial Lectureship - Managing clinical complexity in mental health services: the case of geriatric depression
Presenter: Dr. Eric Lenze
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Dr. Eric Lenze is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Healthy Mind Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Lenze earned his MD degree and completed psychiatry residency at WashU and a geriatric psychiatry fellowship and a research fellowship at University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Lenze is renowned for his research in depression, anxiety, and cognitive functioning in older adults. His research aims at reducing the negative outcomes of mental illness such as premature age-related morbidity. Among his more than 350 publications are studies published in JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet. He is a leader in cutting-edge treatment development projects for high-need areas. For example, in 2020, he conducted a fully-remote trial that showed the drug fluvoxamine could prevent deterioration in acute COVID illness. And, in 2021, he established the first-ever Center for Perioperative Mental Health, aimed at bringing high-quality treatment for depression, anxiety, and other illness, into the perioperative sector.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how, and why, clinical complexity has increased in mental health care.
- Clarify the relative benefits and risks of antidepressant strategies for treatment resistant depression in older adults.
- Know an evidence-based treatment algorithm for caring for older adults with depression.