New Research in Low-Tech Solutions to a Significant Public Health Problem: Assessment of Depression in the Elderly

Dr. McDonald reports that he serves on the Executive Board of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association and is the Director of the Fuqua Center for Late-Life Depression that advocates for geriatric psychiatry. Dr. McDonald is also the Chair of the APA Committee on Electroconvulsive Therapy and Other Electromagnetic Therapies and a member of the APA Council on Research. He reports Consultant/Speaker Honorarium from Myriad, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Janssen. He has received grant support from Boehinger Ingelheim and Neuronetics and was an investigator in a trial sponsored by Janssen. He is presently PI on an NIMH study that uses Neuronetics' transcranial magnetic stimulators. Dr. McDonald works for Emory University that holds a patent for the transcranial magnetic stimulator that is used in the NIMH trial. He is also in an NINDS trial that is evaluating medication donated by Smith Kline (Paxil CR) and Wyeth (Effexor XR).