Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, M.D.

Center Investigator

Research Psychiatrist II, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University
Director, New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence, NYSPI

Selected Publications

Markowitz JC, Patel SR, Balán I, McNamara M, Blanco C, Brave Heart MYH, Sosa S, Lewis-Fernández R. Toward an adaptation of interpersonal psychotherapy for depressed Hispanic patients. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, in press.

Lewis-Fernández R, Horvitz-Lennon M, Blanco C, Guarnaccia PJ, Cao Z, Alegria M. Significance of endorsement of psychotic symptoms by US Latinos. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, in press.

Guarnaccia PJ, Lewis-Fernández R, Martínez Pincay I, Shrout P, Guo J, Torres M, Canino G, Alegría M. Ataque de nervios as a marker of social and psychiatric vulnerability: Results from the NLAAS. International J of Social Psychiatry, in press.

Alegría M, Shrout PE, Torres M, Canino G, Lewis-Fernández R, Abelson J, Powell M, Lin J, Interian A, Woo M, Duan N. Lessons learned from the clinical reappraisal study of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview with Latinos. International J Methods Psychiatric Research, in press.

Olfson M, Cherry D, Lewis-Fernández R. 2009. Racial differences in visit duration of outpatient psychiatric visits. Archives of General Psychiatry 66:214-221.