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1700 W Van Buren St
Chicago, IL 60612Phone+1 708-494-9927Fax+1 847-446-5580- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Stephanie Cavanaugh, MD, has spent her career at the interface between psychiatry and medicine, neurology, and obstetrics and gynecology. She has had a number of positions at Rush University Medical Center including director of emergency services for psychiatry, founder and director of the internal medical/psychiatry program, director of the Section of Psychiatry and Medicine and the Psychiatric Consultation Service, director of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology, and director of the fellowship in psychosomatic medicine. She was a primary care physician at Illinois Hospital and Cook County Hospital for 15 years. She has educated fellows, residents, medical students in psychiatry, neurology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology. Other activities have included coordinator of the Mental Health Team Commission of Experts of the United Nations Security Counsel Investigating Sexual Assaults in the Former Yugoslavia. She has been on several editorial boards and has been in leadership positions in the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. She was the representative from Rush Medical College to the AAMC Women's Task Force, was a member of the medical affairs management committee for Rush. She has been actively involved in research, specifically in the diagnosis and treatment of depression and other conditions in obstetrics and gynecology and the medically ill. Throughout she has maintained a private practice for patients with psychiatric and other nonpsychiatric medical issues.
Education & Training
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemResidency, Psychiatry, 1969 - 1972
Cook County Health and Hospitals SystemInternship, Transitional Year, 1967 - 1968
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of MedicineClass of 1967
Certifications & Licensure
IL State Medical License 1974 - 2026- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Lifetime Achievement Award in Medicine and Psychiatry Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, 2011
Clinical Trials
- Metformin for the Prevention of the Metabolic Side-effects of Zyprexa Start of enrollment: 2007 Aug 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 15 citationsA Naturalistic Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Extended-Release Metformin to Prevent Weight Gain Associated With Olanzapine in a US Community-Dwelling Population.Jeffrey T. Rado, Stephanie von Ammon Cavanaugh> ;Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. 2016 Apr 1
- 56 citationsMedical illness, past depression, and present depression: a predictive triad for in-hospital mortality.Stephanie von Ammon Cavanaugh, Leticia M. Furlanetto, Steven D. Creech, Lynda H. Powell> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2001 Jan 1
- 25 citationsAssociation between depressive symptoms and mortality in medical inpatients.Leticia M. Furlanetto, Stephanie von Ammon Cavanaugh, Joao Romildo Bueno, Steven D. Creech, Lynda H. Powell> ;Psychosomatics. 2000 Sep 1
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Grant Support
- 3 NIH grants, 2 indeprendant investigator awards from Lilly and Pfizer, 1 grant from the American Cancer Society, and one from the MacArthur FoundationNIMH, Lilly, Pfizer, Macarthur foundation,Present
Hospital Affiliations
Rush University Medical CenterChicago, Illinois
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