Jan Fawcett
The University of New Mexico, USA
Biography
Jan Fawcett has served as the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical Center in Chicago while maintaining a private practice for 30 years and then has taught residents for 15 years at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a Professor of Psychiatry, where he supervises a TRD clinic and teaches residents. He has won many awards for his research in depression and suicide prevention and has been the Principal Investigator of 9 NUMH funded grants. He has been the Medical Editor of Psychiatric Annals for 25 years and recently served as Chair of the Mood Disorders Workgroup for DSM-5. He currently continues to practice outpatient psychiatry and runs a Treatment Resistant Depression Clinic at the University of New Mexico and has recently published his first novel, Living Forever.
Abstract
Abstract : When Electro Convulsive Therapy Fails