Improving Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in General Health Care Settings: A Gedenkschrift in Honor of Wayne Katon, MD (1950 – 2015)

This special article pays tribute to Wayne Katon, MD (1950 – 2015) with a Gedenkschrift, or review, of his prolific academic career. Abstracts of all of Dr. Katon’s Medline citations were reviewed to develop a narrative of his seminal epidemiological and interventional research findings. Specifically, we describe: 1) how Dr. Katon’s clinical work and observational epidemiology and health services research informed and guided interventional studies; 2) the evolution of multi-disciplinary interventional trials from primary care-based psychiatric consultation to primary care-based collaborative care for depression to multi-condition collaborative care; and 3) how Dr.

Source: General Hospital Psychiatry - July 21, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Dimitry S. Davydow, Jodie G. Katon, Bruce L. Rollman, Jürgen Unützer Source Type: research