Elisabeth J.S. Kunkel, MD
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs & Professor, Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Program Director Emeritus,
Fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine
Division Director,
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Contact Dr. Kunkel

1020 Sansom Street
Thompson Building, Suite 1652
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-6685
(215) 955-8473 (fax)

Medical School
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1983)

Residency
New York University Medical Center, New York, NY (1987)

Fellowship
Psycho-Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (1989)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Geriatric Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Addiction Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Psychosomatic Medicine

University Appointment
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Hospital Appointment
Director, Consultation-Liaison Services

Research and Clinical Interests
Psychosomatic medicine, mood and anxiety disorders in the medically ill, consultation-liaison psychiatry, prostate cancer

Publications

1. Changes in cerebral blood flow and anxiety associated with an 8-week mindfulness programme in women with breast cancer
2. Measuring informed decision making about prostate cancer screening in primary care
3. Mediated decision support in prostate cancer screening: A randomized controlled trial of decision counseling
4. Physician staffing for the practice of psychosomatic medicine in general hospitals: A pilot study
5. Women at a Dangerous Intersection: Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression and Related Disorders in Patients with Breast Cancer
6. Prostate cancer: Issues in psychosomatic medicine
7. Helping men decide about scheduling a prostate cancer screening exam
8. Psychiatrists for medically complex patients: bringing value at the physical health and mental health/substance-use disorder interface
9. Psychotropic medications and breastfeeding
10. Hematologic Problems in Psychosomatic Medicine
11. Recurrent priapism associated with use of aripiprazole [2]
12. Anxiety in medically ill patients
13. Psycho-oncology: Review and update
14. A randomized, controlled trial of mindfulness-based art therapy (MBAT) for women with cancer
15. Zonisamide-induced suicidal ideation
16. Depression, cognition, and anxiety among postmenopausal women with breast cancer
17. Preparing African-American men in community primary care practices to decide whether or not to have prostate cancer screening
18. Psychosocial oncology: Supportive care for the cancer patient
19. Behaviors Used by Men to Protect Themselves against Prostate Cancer
20. Psychiatric aspects of women with breast cancer.

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