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Francine Cournos, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Washington Heights Community Service,
New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Francine Cournos, MD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University. She is the Director of the Washington Heights Community Service at New York State Psychiatric Institute, a bilingual and bicultural program funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health to serve people suffering from severe mental illness who reside in northern Manhattan. She is also the Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Program. Dr. Cournos has worked in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness since 1983, and has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy development projects.
She has edited two books and written numerous articles and book chapters on the interface of HIV/AIDS and mental health issues with a particular concentration on people with severe mental illness. Internationally, she works on approaches to treating mental health disorders in the context of the antiretroviral rollout, and recently co-authored the WHO booklet, Psychiatric Care in Anti-retroviral (ARV) Therapy (for Second Level Care).
Dr. Cournos has served on the boards of many professional organizations as well as many not-for-profit programs that serve disadvantaged populations. In 1999 Dr. Cournos published an autobiography, City of One, which describes her own experiences as an orphan and foster child, and has spoken and published about disclosure, permanency planning, and childhood bereavement. She is involved in many projects that address the mental health needs of foster children.
Dr. Cournos also conducts a private practice at the medical center focused on individual and couples therapy. She has received a number of awards including the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from NAMI.
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Undergraduate: C.U.N.Y., City College, B.S., 1967
Medical School: New York University School of Medicine, M.D., 1971
Internship: Montefiore Hospital, Medical, 1971 - 1972
Residency: Montefiore Hospital, Medical, 1972 - 1973
Residency: New York State Psychiatric Institute, Psychiatry, 1973 - 1976
Board Certifications: American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology
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• Psychiatry - Administration
Public Mental Health
• HIV/AIDS Psychiatry
• Individual and Couples Therapy
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Address:
NYS Psychiatric Institute
Room 4813 Unit/Box:Box 112
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032
Phone: 212-543-5412
Fax: 212-543-5962
fc15@Columbia.edu
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| Dr. Cournos' research has focused on people with severe mental illness in two areas: consent to treatment and refusal of treatment; and the epidemiology of HIV infection and HIV-related risk behaviors.
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1. Cournos F: City of One, Authors Choice Press, New York, NY, USA, 2006
1. Cournos F and Forstein M: What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know About HIV and AIDS. New Directions for Mental Health Services 87, Jossey Bass Inc Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000
1. Cournos F Wainberg M Horwath E: Psychiatric Care in Anti-retroviral (ARV) Therapy (for Second Level Care) Fieldtest Version, World Health Organization, Geneva, , Switzerland, 2005
1. Cournos F Empfield M Horwath E McKinnon K Meyer I Schrage H Currie C Agosin B: HIV seroprevalence among patients admitted to two psychiatric hospitals. American Journal of Psychiatry 1991;148: 1225 - 1230
1. McKinnon K Carey MP Cournos F: Research on HIV, AIDS, and severe mental illness: Recommendations from the NIMH national conference. Clinical Psychology Review 1997;17: 327-331
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