“There is no question that eating disorders continue to affect women in their 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond,” said Evelyn Attia, MD, director of the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders.
An intergenerational Clinical Health Justice Forum in December 2022 focused on medical education and health equity and drew more than 60 people from the Columbia medical community.
The Center for Practice Innovations is New York’s secret asset quietly helping to make the state’s 38,000 public sector behavioral health workforce among the best trained in the country.
"The chronic stress of caregiving and inequity can have deleterious consequences," said Martin Picard, PhD, associate professor of behavioral medicine (in psychiatry and neurology) at Columbia.
Researchers are getting closer to figuring out who will respond best to ketamine therapy and why, said Dr. Joshua Berman, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia.
SAD fulfills the criteria for a major depressive disorder, said Michael Terman, PhD, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia. The difference is that SAD comes and goes with predictability.
Even professionals like doctors and lawyers are under pressure to see more patients or run up more billable hours, with their pay depending on how fast they hustle, Dr. Philip Muskin said.
Gaddy Noy, DO, a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, said that some days only a single inpatient psychiatric bed is available at hospitals nearby willing to admit someone from the ER.
