Clinical Convergence: Patient and Provider Perspectives on Optimal Care in Bipolar Depression

Deborah V. Thomas, EdD, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, PMHNP-BC, CMP, is a board certified master psychopharmacologist, a child and adolescent psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, and a professor in and director of the Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Specialty at the University of Louisville School of Nursing. Dr. Thomas is also the owner of Here and Now Psychiatric Services, Center for Pharmacogenomic Studies, and The Parenting Institute. She completed her master’s degree in psychiatric nursing from Indiana University and her doctorate in education leadership with a minor in ethics from Spalding University.

 

Dr. Thomas focuses her research on a variety of psychiatric topics. She has been published in multiple publications and serves as an active presenter for several international nursing and medicine conferences. She is an active member in the leadership of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses (ISPN). She presents on a variety of psychiatric and mental health topics annually at the national and/or international level. Dr. Thomas is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Psychiatric Nursing. She was awarded the Susan McCabe Lectureship for 2015 by the ISPN Psychopharmacology Institute and the International Psychiatric Educator of the Year for 2012 by ISPN. Dr. Thomas is a recognized professional speaker and leader in cutting-edge psychiatric nursing practice and education.

Joseph F. Goldberg, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and director of the Affective Disorders Research Program at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT. Dr. Goldberg attended college at the University of Chicago, graduate school in neuroscience at the University of Illinois, and medical school at Northwestern University. He completed his residency and chief residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Payne Whitney Clinic, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he later served on the faculty and was site principal investigator at Weill-Cornell Medical Center for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Systematic Treatment Enhancement Program for Bipolar Disorder (STEP-BD) program.

 

Dr. Goldberg has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers on topics related mainly to the treatment and clinical features of bipolar disorder. He also published three books on bipolar disorder and psychopharmacology, most recently Managing the Side Effects of Psychotropic Medications, published in 2012 by American Psychiatric Association Publishing.

 

Dr. Goldberg serves on the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology board of directors and is on the editorial boards for a number of peer reviewed journals. His research has been awarded funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (formerly NARSAD), NIMH, the Stanley Foundation, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Goldberg is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been listed for many years in Best Doctors in America and Castle Connolly’s “America's Top Doctors.”