Editor's Note: Terry McGovern, the author of this opinion piece, is chair of the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.
When Army veteran Gilberto Rivera arrived for his Columbia dental appointment, he didn’t expect he and his provider would share such a close military connection.
For people with major depressive disorder who are not helped by standard treatments, Columbia Psychiatry offers transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine, and other interventional therapies.
“We found that people who inject drugs comprise a bigger percentage of the deaths from infective endocarditis, compared to 20 years ago,” said senior researcher Dr. Polydoros Kampaktsis.
Dr. David Hellerstein, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, said the question comes in many iterations but boils down to: Do antidepressants work?
Dean Chou, MD, a renowned neurosurgeon who specializes in minimally invasive and complex spine surgery, has been named chief of the spine division in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
