Depression Center Collaborative Team
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Duane DiFranco, MD is Medical Director, the Michigan Center for Diagnosis and Referral. He completed his M.D. at University of Michigan. Dr. DiFranco's research interests focus on behavioral health services. Clinical interests include general adult psychiatry and brief dynamic psychotherapy. |
Psychiatry
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Kevin Kerber, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He completed both his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Michigan. He served as chief resident during his residency training and joined the faculty in 1984. He served as Medical Director of the Managed Care Program prior to his work in the Ambulatory Division and Depression Center. He was honored with the title of Teacher of the Year in 2000 for his outstanding teaching of residents in Psychiatry. His principle interest within psychiatry is in the area of men's psychology and depression outreach and collaborative care. |
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Ziad Kronfol, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. He earned his MD from the American University of Beirut. He then completed his residency training in psychiatry at the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1986 and has since been active in teaching, research and clinical care. His clinical interests include the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorders and treatment-resistant depression. His research interests include the relation between the brain and the immune system and the effects of stress and depression on the course of medical illness. |
Nursing
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Charlotte Allport, MS, RN, NP has worked in psychiatry since 1989, starting on the adult inpatient psychiatric unit at the University of Michigan. Prior to working in psychiatry, she worked in both medical-surgical nursing and in home care/hospice. Currently, she is a Care Navigator with the Depression Center's M-DOCC program and co-facilitator with the outpatient dialectical behavioral therapy group. Charlotte is also enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Nursing Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. |
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Julie Kuebler, MS, RN, NP has worked in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan on Adult Inpatient and Child/Adolescent Inpatient Units since 1984. She is currently a staff nurse in Adult Outpatient Ambulatory Psychiatry. Julie is a Care Navigator for the Depression Center's M-DOCC program and coordinates the Meds Plus Clinic. Julie is enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Nursing Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. |
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Sharon Mudd, MS, RN, CS, NP is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatry and a licensed Nurse Practitioner. While pursuing her master's degree from the University of Michigan, she received a trainee award from the National Institute of Mental Health and was named in Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Sharon has worked in the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry for over ten years serving clinical, research, and administrative roles. She has published and conducted research in the areas of behavior change, depression in women over the reproductive life cycle, and substance abuse treatment and currently works in the area of mood disorders in women, with special interest in the area of fertility. |
Social Work
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Vivien Hsu, MSW received her training at Smith College School of Social Work. Since 1971, she has worked in various mental health and family counseling settings providing therapy to children and adults, couples and families. Ms. Hsu currently delivers a range of services to the adult population. Her therapy skills include expertise in grief and loss, interpersonal conflicts, occupational stressors, child abuse and parenting concerns. She came to the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry in 1993. |
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Vanessa Korn, MSW has been active within the University of Michigan Health Center Department of Social Work for the past two decades. Her clinical areas of interest include the treatment of mood disorders, with special emphasis on individuals impacted by trauma or abuse. She has provided couples counseling, and couples communication groups both within psychiatric and primary care settings. Vanessa has also been active administratively within Psychiatric Social work, and involved in numerous projects having to do with clinical redesign within Ambulatory Services and the Depression Center. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work. |
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Claire Weiner, MSW received her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois and master's degree at the University of Chicago. Her range of experience and interests include older adults, grief and loss, cognitive behavioral therapy for depression, and individuals and couples. She is currently involved in an initiative which will broaden the mental health services to the Cancer Center providing group therapy. She has been a social work field instructor for thirteen years at the University of Michigan. |