James Megna, MD, PhD
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Medicine
Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Director of Inpatient Psychiatry
SPECIALTIES
Psychiatry
LANGUAGES
English
PATIENT TYPE
Adults
RESEARCH PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATIONS
Public Health and Preventive Medicine
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Epidemiology/pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia; Ego strength among inpatients & its relation to engagement in treatment; cardiovascular risk factors in patients with serious mental illness; changes in cognition in response to depression treatment
EDUCATION INTERESTS
Biostatistical/epidemiologic principles and their application in evaluating the scientific literature; personality disorders
ASSOCIATIONS / MEMBERSHIPS
Alpha Omega Alpha Honour Society
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
EDUCATION
Residency: SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1998, Psychiatry
MD: SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine, 1988
PhD: SUNY Upstate Medical Center, 1984, Pharmacology
BA: University of Rochester, 1979
PUBLICATIONS
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