Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Epidemiology Director, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Associate Center Director and Research Methodology Core Director,  Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research in Late Life  Mood Disorders Director, Quality of Life Research, Artificial Heart Program and Adult  Cardiothoracic Transplantation, UPMC Email: dewma@upmc.edu Phone: 412-624-3373 Fax: 412-383-4846 Assistant: Eileen Walsh, 412-624-3373, walshel@upmc.edu Research Program Dr. Dew’s work lies in three major areas.  First, she has focused on the identification of risk and protective factors for psychiatric disorder, medical nonadherence, and poor quality of life in the context of end-stage organ disease.  She studies these issues primarily in organ transplant candidates and recipients, as well as in their family caregivers.  She is also interested in mental and physical health outcomes in living organ and bone marrow donors.

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She is currently completing several projects focused on very long-term post-transplant mental health outcomes in heart and/or lung transplant recipients.  Her second major area of work concerns understanding the process and predictors of response to treatment in older adults experiencing depressive and anxiety-related disorders, and this work is carried out in the context of several clinical trials underway at the Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research for Late Life Mood Disorders.  Finally, her general interest and expertise in research methodology and biostatistics constitutes a third area of activity that cuts across all of her substantive research efforts. Leadership Positions and Honors Fellow, American Psychopathological Association & American Psychological Society Recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award from the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, the Dlin/Fischer Award for Significant Contributions to Clinical Research from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Nursing and Social Sciences Research Excellence Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Member, National Institute of Mental Health Task Force Member: “Breaking ground, breaking through:  Strategic plan for mood disorders” (Aging and Medical Comorbidity, 2000-2001 Co-chair, Psychosocial Outcomes White Paper Workgroup of the Nursing and Social Sciences Council of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, 2004-2005 Invited participant, Vancouver Forum, to formulate international living organ donor medical, psychosocial, ethical policy, The Transplantation Society. Invited participant, Canadian National Forum on Enhancing Living Donation, to formulate Canadian Ministry of Health policy, Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation, 2006 Member, Steering Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing Conference on the Psychosocial Evaluation of the “Nontraditional” Living Kidney Donor, 2006 Representative Publications  Dew MA, Myaskovsky L, Switzer GE, DiMartini AF, Schulberg HC, Kormos RL:  Profiles and predictors of the course of psychological distress across four years after heart transplantation. Psychol Med 35:1215-1227, 2005. Dew MA, Goycoolea JM, Harris RC, Lee A, Zomak R, Dunbar-Jacob J, Rotondi A, Griffith BP, Kormos RL:  An internet-based intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes in heart transplant recipients and family caregivers:  Development and evaluation.  J Heart Lung Transplantation 23:745-758, 2004. Dew MA, Reynolds CF III, Mulsant BH, Frank E, Houck PR, Mazumdar S, Begley AE, Kupfer DJ:  Initial recovery patterns may predict which maintenance therapies for depression will keep older adults well.  J Affect Disorders 65:155-166, 2001. Dew MA, Hoch CC, Buysse DJ, Monk T, Begley AE, Houck PR, Hall M, Kupfer DJ, Reynolds CF III:  Healthy older adults’ sleep predicts all-cause mortality at 4 to 19 years of follow-up.  Psychosom Med 65:63-73, 2003. Dew MA, Switzer GE, Myaskovsky L, DiMartini AF, Tovt-Korshynska MI: Rating scales for mood disorders.  In:  D Stein, DJ Kupfer, AF Schatzberg (eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders, pp. 69-97.  Washington, DC:  American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2005.

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