Wayne Katon, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the
Division of Health Services and Epidemiology, and Vice Chair of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University
of Washington Medical School. He is Director of a NIMH-funded
National Research Service Award Primary Care-Psychiatry Fellowship
that has successfully trained psychiatrists and primary care
physicians for academic leadership positions. Dr. Katon is
internationally renowned for his research on the prevalence of
anxiety and depressive disorders in primary care, the relationship
of psychiatric disorders to medically unexplained symptoms such as
headache and fatigue, and the impact of depression and anxiety on
patients with chronic medical illness. In recent years, his
research has focused on developing innovative models of integrating
mental health professionals and other allied health personnel into
primary care to improve the care of patients with major depression
and panic disorder.
Dr. Katon has been awarded the American for Excellence in Teaching
in Primary Care numerous times. He also has been awarded the
Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Research Award (1993) and the
American Psychiatric Association Senior Scholar Health Services
Research Award (1999) and the Depression and Bipolar Support
Alliance Gerald L. Klerman Senior Investigator Award (2003). He is
Editor-in-Chief of General Hospital Psychiatry and is
honored by being one of the Web of Science Highly Cited
Authors.
Dr. Katon has written over 400 peer-reviewed journal articles and
chapters, as well as Panic Disorder in the Medical Setting,
a book for primary care physicians. In addition, Dr. Katon and his
research team have written a self-help book for depressed patients
titled Depression: Self-Care Companion for Better Living.
Mario Maj is Professor of Psychiatry and Chairman at the
University of Naples, Italy. He is President of the World
Psychiatric Association and former President of the European
Psychiatric Association. He is the Italian psychiatrist with the
highest number of citations in indexed journals in the period
1981-2008.
Norman Sartorius served as Director of the Division
of Mental Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) and was the
principal investigator of several major international studies on
schizophrenia, on depression and on health service delivery. He has
published more than 330 articles in scientific journals, authored
or co-authored several books and edited a number of others.
He was the President of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) and
President of the Association of European Psychiatrists (AEP).
Currently he is the President of the Association for the
Improvement of Mental Health Programmes and holds professorial
appointments at the Universities of London, Prague and Zagreb and
at several other universities in the USA and China.
Professor Sartorius is a corresponding member of the Croatian
Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Spanish Royal Academy of
Medicine, member of the Medical Academies of Croatia, Peru and
Mexico. He has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Umea,
Prague and Bath and is an Honorary Fellow or honorary member of
numerous psychiatric associations. He is also the editor of three
journals and a member of the editorial board of many more.
5 Ebooks von Wayne Katon
Wayne Katon & Mario Maj: Depression and Diabetes
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. The WPA is providing an update of currently available evidence …
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€42.99
Anna Ratzliff & Jurgen Unutzer: Integrated Care
An integrated, collaborative model for more comprehensive patient care Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams provides the practical information, skills, and clinical approaches need …
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€44.99
Anna Ratzliff & Jurgen Unutzer: Integrated Care
An integrated, collaborative model for more comprehensive patient care Creating Effective Mental and Primary Health Care Teams provides the practical information, skills, and clinical approaches need …
PDF
Englisch
DRM
€44.99
Wayne Katon & Mario Maj: Depression and Diabetes
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the multiple interrelationships between depression and various physical diseases. The WPA is providing an update of currently available evidence …
EPUB
Englisch
DRM
€42.99
Wayne Katon & Evette Ludman: Depression Helpbook
Recognizing that all depression is different-from how severe it is and what the symptoms are to how long it lasts-this book explains what causes depression, how to recognize depression, and how to ma …
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€19.20