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,  17^th 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