About me
- Chair, Department of Psychiatry
- Ruth Meltzer Professor of Psychiatry
Education and training
- Medical School: Columbia University
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
My Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: On the medical staff, but does not have privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry, 1989
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, National
- American Psychiatric Association, National
- American Society of Hispanic Psychiatry, National
- Association of Women Psychiatrists, National
- Bipartisan Policy Center, National
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, National
- College of International Neuropsychopharmacology, International
- Elsevier-The Lancet Regional Health Americas, International
- Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain, International
- International Academy of Suicide Research, International
- International Association for Suicide Prevention, International
- International Covid-19 Suicide Prevention Research Collaboration, International
- Military Suicide Research Consortium, National
- Movement for Global Mental Health, International
- National Institute of Mental Health, Scientific Review Groups, National
- National Scientific Advisory Council, Suicide Prevention Action Network, National
- Pardes Humanism Award, National
- Saint George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, International
- Society for Biological Psychiatry, National
- Tufts University Board of Trustees, National
- World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, International
- World Suicidology Net, International
Treatments and Conditions
My research
Tran, JT; Webster, JL; Wolfe, JR; Ben Nathan, J; Mayinja, L; Kautz, M; Oquendo, MA; Brown, GK; Mandell, D; Mowery, D; Bauermeister, JA; Brown, LA Experiences of Peer Mentoring Sexual and Gender Diverse Emerging Adults Who are at Risk for Suicide: A Mixed Methods Study , JMIR Formative Research: 2025
Connolly Gibbons, MB; Tyler, J; Crits-Christopher, P; Cristancho, M; Galbraith, J; Chiu, RY; Duong, LA; Oquendo, MA A Multifaceted Outpatient Treatment Model for Mood and Anxiety Disorders Designed to Optimize Both Treatment Outcomes and Access to Care , Psychotherapy: 2025
Mucavele, J; Nhancupe, N; Monteiro, GER; Miambo, RD; Gouveia, L; Pondja, A; Sousa, IM; Bickler, SW; Benson, CA; Schooley, RT; Schmidt, V; Ruether, C; Stelzle, D; Prazeres da Costa, C; Suade, L; Wainberg, ML; Oquendo, MA; Winkler, AS; Noormahomed, EV; Zambézia Cysticercosis Working Group Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis in people from Mocuba district, Zambézia province: A Mozambican community-based study , PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: 2025
Na, PJ; Shin, J; Kwak, HR; Lee, J; Jester, D; Bandara, P; Kim, JY; Moutier, C; Pietrzak, RH; Oquendo, MA; Jeste, DV Social Determinants of Health and Suicide-Related Outcomes – A Review of Meta-Analyses , JAMA Psychiatry: 2025
Tran, JT; Webster, J; Wolfe, JR; Ben Nathan, J; Mayinja, L; Kautz, M; Oquendo, MA; Brown, GK; Mandell, D; Mowery, D; Bauermeister, JA; Brown, L Experiences of Peer Mentoring Sexual and Gender Minority Emerging Adults Who Are at Risk for Suicide: Mixed Methods Study , JMIR Formative Research: 2025
Sosa, MZP; de la Vega-Sánchez, D; Sanz-Gómez, S; Giner, L; Melvin, G; Sánchez-Gómez, A; Guija, JA; Oquendo, MA Suicide Risk Among Cannabis, Heroin and Cocaine Users , International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction: 2025
Massinga, LJ; Greene, MC; Duarte, CS; Mandlate, F; Santos, PF; Gouveia, L; Oquendo, MA; Mello, MF; Wainberg, ML Screening for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Mozambique: Validation of the Primary Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screen for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Fifth Edition (PC-PTSD-5) , Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy : 2025
Smith, A; Artese, A; Oquendo, MA; Bhugra, D; Moura, HF; Liebrenz, M “Sleepy Joe”, “el loco”, and evolving debates about mental health and democratic leadership in the Americas , Lancet Regional Health - Americas: 2025
Donnelly, HK; Brown, GK; Green, KL; Vurgun, U; Hwang, S; Schriver, E; Steinberg, M; Reilly, M; Mehta, H; Labouliere, C; Oquendo, MA; Mandell, M; Mowery, DL Exploring the potential of large language models for automated safety plan scoring in outpatient mental health settings , medRxiv: 2025
Moran, P; Chandler, A; Dudgeon, P; Kirtley, OJ; Knipe, D; Pirkis, J; Sinyor, M; Allister, R; Ansloos, J; Ball, MA; Chan, LF; Darwin, L; Derry, KL; Heney, V; Hetrick, S; Li, A; Machado, DB; McAllister, E; McDaid, D; Mehra, I; Niederkrotenthaler, T; Nock, MK; O’Keefe, VM; Oquendo, MA; Osafo, J; Patel, V; Pathare, S; Peltier, S; Roberts, T; Robinson, J; Shand, F; Stirling, F; Stoor, JPA; Swingler, N; Turecki, G; Venkatesh, S; Waitoki, W; Wright, M; Yip, PSF; Spoelma, MJ; Kapur, N; O’Connor, RC; Christensen, H The Lancet Commission on Self-Harm , The Lancet: 2024