Prevention of Late-Life Depression (eBook)

Dr. Okereke is an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology-certified geriatric psychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). She is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Assistant Professor in Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale University School of Medicine, she completed a general psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/ McLean program and a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at McLean Hospital. She also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology degree at Harvard Chan as a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kirschstein-National Research Service Award recipient. At BWH, she holds appointments as an Associate Psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, where she provides continuity outpatient care in geriatric psychiatry, and also as an Associate Epidemiologist in the Department of Medicine. Additionally, she is a clinical affiliate psychiatrist in the MGH Gerontology Research Unit and Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Her programmatic goals are: (1) to employ epidemiologic research methods to identify modifiable risk factors involved in healthy mental aging and (2) to translate and apply knowledge gained into effective strategies for large-scale prevention of major adverse mental aging outcomes, such as late-life depression and cognitive decline. As a Principal Investigator, Dr. Okereke has obtained numerous independent research grants from the National Institutes of Health and private/non-profit foundations. Her peer-reviewed work has appeared in JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Neurology, JAMA Neurology, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and other scientific journals.

 1 Prevention of Major Depression: A Global PriorityCharles F. Reynolds III 2 The Framework for PreventionRobert A. Schoevers, Elisabeth Duursma 3 Social and Behavioral Risk Factors for Late-life DepressionOlivia I. Okereke, Ankura Singh 4 Prevention of Depression in Medical ConditionsLiming Dong, Joseph J. Gallo 5 Vascular Depression and the Role of Neuroimaging and BiomarkersSara L. Weisenbach, Nicolette M. Gabel, Emily M. Briceño 6 Measurement and Assessment in Late-life DepressionOlivia I. Okereke 7 Applications I: Indicated PreventionPim Cuijpers, Claudia Buntrock, David Daniel Ebert, Aartjan T.F. Beekman, Charles F. Reynolds III 8 Applications II: Selective and Universal Prevention of Late-life DepressionOlivia I. Okereke 9 Health Policy and Economic Aspects of Late-life Depression PreventionAnkura Singh, Olivia I. Okereke 10 Depression among Blacks during Late Life: Examining Within Group VariationsShanna Brewton-Tiayon, Daphne C. Watkins, Niki Matusko, James S. Jackson 11 Global Priorities and PossibilitiesSteven M. Albert, Offer E. Edelstein, Stewart Anderson, Mary Amanda Dew, Charles F. Reynolds III