William Apfeldorf, M.D., Ph.D.
Current Position(s):
Training Director for the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Medical Director, University Psychiatry Center Inpatient Services
· Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Program
Associate Professor
Educational Background:
Geriatric Psychiatry Research Fellowship, Cornell University and New York Hospital, White Plains, NY
· Psychiatry Residency, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Internship, General Medicine – St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, NY
MD, Yale University, New Haven CT
PhD, Cell Biology – Yale University, New Haven CT
M Phil, 1985, Cell Biology, Yale University, New Haven CT
MS, 1985, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven CT
BS, 1976 - 1980, Yale University, New Haven CT
Areas of Specialization:
Geriatric psychiatry, emergency and inpatient psychiatry
Selected Publications:
Apfeldorf WJ, Alexopoulos GS. Approaches to the treatment of chronic late life (geriatric) depression. In: Handbook of Chronic Depression. Edited by Alpert J, Fava M. New York, Marcel Dekker, 2001.
Apfeldorf WJ, Alexopoulos GS. Approaches to the treatment of chronic late life (geriatric) depression. In: Handbook of Chronic Depression. Edited by Alpert J, Fava M. New York, Marcel Dekker, 2003.
Apfeldorf WJ, Alexopoulos GS. Late Life Mood Disorders. In: Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, fifth edition. Edited by Hazzard WR, Blass JP, Ettinger WH Jr., Halter JB, Ouslander JG. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2003.
Alexopoulos GS, Apfeldorf WJ. Unipolar Depression. In: Late Life Depression. Edited by Rosse, SP, Sackeim HA. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Current Grant and Contract Funding:
Comprehensive Programs to Strengthen Physicians’ Training in Geriatrics
Donald W Reynolds Foundation Award
The aims of this research are: 1) incorporation of a comprehensive geriatrics curriculum into the medical school, 2) expansion of geriatric training an competency in the three community-based family medicine residency programs to assure excellence in geriatric graduate medical training statewide, and 3) strengthen geriatric training for community-based primary care physicians throughout New Mexico, first through the vast network clinical preceptors affiliated with the University of New Mexico, and then through the network of physicians served by the Indian Health Service (IHS), Area Health Education Centers and state primary care associations.
Co-Investigator
New Mexico Geriatric Education Center
HRSA Bureau of Health Professionals
The New Mexico Geriatric Education Center educates and trains health care professionals in geriatrics with an emphasis on those providers who work with American Indian elders.
Consultant
New Mexico Mentorship and Education Program (MEP)
NIH
The MEP program provides education and support to minority junior faculty members to develop academically.
Co-investigator
Selected Invited Lectures:
September, 2005 Strategies for the Treatment of Geriatric Affective
Disorders, 17th Annual Southwest Psychiatric Symposium, Albuquerque, NM
October, 2005 Late Life Depression, Crownpoint Indian Health Services Grand Rounds, Crownpoint, NM
November, 2005 Geriatric Depression Update 2005, UNM Geriatric Education Center Grand Rounds, Albuquerque, NM
December, 2005 Prescribing Psychotropics to Vulnerable Populations: Atypical Antipsychotics and the Elderly with Dementia,
UNM Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Albuquerque, NM
March, 2006 Mental Health Services Research in Geriatric Minority Populations, 2006 NIMH/UNM Mental Health Mentorship & Education Program Training Institute, Albuquerque, NM
April, 2006 Treatment of Aggression and Agitation in the Elderly, Psychiatric Centers of San Diego, San Diego, CA