Francine Cournos, MD

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Overview

Francine Cournos, MD is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology) at Columbia University. She is the Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project. Dr. Cournos has worked in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness since 1983, and has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy development projects.
She has edited two books and written numerous articles and book chapters on the interface of HIV/AIDS and mental health issues with a particular concentration on people with severe mental illness. Internationally, she has worked on approaches to treating mental health disorders in the context of the antiretroviral rollout. Dr. Cournos has served on the boards of many professional organizations as well as many not-for-profit programs that serve disadvantaged populations. In 1999 Dr. Cournos published an autobiography, City of One, which describes her own experiences as an orphan and foster child, and has spoken and published about disclosure, permanency planning, and childhood bereavement. She is involved in many projects that address the mental health needs of foster children.
Dr. Cournos also conducts a private practice at the medical center focused on individual and couples therapy. She has received a number of awards including the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from NAMI.

Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated

Couples/Relationship Therapy
Couples Therapy
Individual Psychotherapy

Academic Appointments

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Epidemiology)

Hospital Affiliations

NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Gender

Female

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CUIMC/Neurological Institute of New York
710 West 168th Street

New York, NY 10032

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

New York University
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship: New York State Psychiatric Institute

Board Certifications

Psychiatry

Research

Dr. Cournos' research has focused on people with severe mental illness in two areas: consent to treatment and refusal of treatment; and the epidemiology of HIV infection and HIV-related risk behaviors.

Selected Publications

Cournos F: City of One, Authors Choice Press, New York, NY, USA, 2006
Cournos F, Forstein M: What Mental Health Practitioners Need to Know About HIV and AIDS. New Directions for Mental Health Services 87, Jossey Bass Inc Publishers, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2000
Cournos F, Wainberg M, Horwath E: Psychiatric Care in Anti-retroviral (ARV) Therapy (for Second Level Care) Fieldtest Version, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005
Cournos F, Empfield M, Horwath E, McKinnon K, Meyer I, Schrage H, Currie C, Agosin B: HIV seroprevalence among patients admitted to two psychiatric hospitals. American Journal of Psychiatry 1991;148: 1225 - 1230
McKinnon K, Carey MP, Cournos F: Research on HIV, AIDS, and severe mental illness: Recommendations from the NIMH national conference. Clinical Psychology Review 1997;17: 327-331


For a complete list of publications, please visit PubMed.gov