Contact Information

University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry
300 Crittenden Boulevard
Rochester, New York 14642-8409
(585) 275-2835

Elizabeth_Santos@URMC.Rochester.edu

Education

POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING

6/00-9/04   State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Residency in Psychiatry

10/04-6/06  University of Rochester, Clinical Fellowship in Geriatric Psychiatry and Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Geriatrics

7/06-present  University of Rochester, Department of Psychiatry, National Research Service Award (NRSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship, T-32, P.I. Eric D. Caine

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

2007 - Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

2008 - Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Subspecialty of Geriatric Psychiatry

Professional Overview

Dr. Elizabeth J. Santos completed general psychiatry training at SUNY Buffalo and a combined Geriatric Psychiatry and HRSA Interdisciplinary Geriatric Fellowship at the University of Rochester.  Dr. Santos has always been committed to strengthening medical education at all levels and she joined the HRSA fellowship because they highlighted training clinician-educators with a focus on incorporating educational tools and models led by educators from the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester.  Her clinical work involves nursing home psychiatric consultation and she is also an attending in the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) at the University of Rochester Medical Center.  Dr. Santos is continuing her training as an NRSA postdoctoral research fellow and MPH candidate.  Elder mistreatment is the focus of her research, including development of screening tools, training evaluators, public policy, advocacy for older adults, education, and psychopathology of victims and perpetrators.        

Publications

1.     Books, Monographs, Chapters, and Review Articles

Santos EJ, Boyle LL, Lyness JM: The clinical approach to dysthymic disorder in older adults. Geriatrics & Aging 8:42-45, 2005.

Santos EJ, Conwell, Y: Suicide. In: Capezuti E, Siegler G, Mezey MD (Eds.).

The Encyclopedia of Elder Care (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Company, 755-758, 2008.

Santos EJ, Conwell Y: Prevention of Suicide in Older Adults. In: Shrivstava A (Ed.) (in progress). International Handbook of Suicide Prevention. London: Gaskell Publications.  

Santos EJ, Goldstein MZ: Elder Mistreatment and Self-Neglect. In: Sadock BJ, Sadock VA, Ruiz P (Eds.) (in progress). Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (9th ed.). New York: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins.

2.      Abstracts

Santos EJ, Xu J, Saldana AM. The Use of Screening Tools in the Management of Poststroke Depression Among Veterans.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2005, 53(4), S58.

Boyle LL, Santos EJ, Fudge JL.  Rules of engagement: Crisis intervention for an older African-American woman following overdose.  Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2005, 53(4), S124.

Santos EJ, Boyle LL, Horwitz G, Lyness JM. Iatrogenesis in Extremis: The Dangers of Fractured Care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2006, 54(4), S21-2.

Santos EJ, Friedman B, Russ AJ, Delavan RL, Conwell Y. Factors Associated with Elder Abuse in a Group of Medicare Patients with Disabilities. The Gerontologist, 2007, 47(S1), p247.

Santos EJ, Cerulli C, Johnson KA, Lu N, Tu X, Conwell Y. Elder Mistreatment: A Community Survey. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2008,16:3 (S1) A82-83.