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Brought to you by the Depression Is Real Coalition, The Down & Up Show is dedicated to the reality of depression. Our hosts will talk with some of the world's top experts on depression, as well as people who have been impacted by this illness. The reality of depression is that it is a debilitating and potentially deadly medical condition that affects more than 15 million Americans every year. The other reality of depression is that there is hope. Thomas L. Schwenk
Dr. Schwenk has served since 1992 as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Faculty Scholar Program, was a member of the Board of Directors of the ABFM (Vice President 2004-2005), has been an Associate Editor for Journal Watch since 1993, and was elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2002. |
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Thomas L. Schwenk has served as Chair of the Department of Family
Medicine since 1986. His teaching and research address psychiatric
and psychosocial issues in primary care practice, with an emphasis
on depression. He is the Associate Director of the Comprehensive
Depression Center at the University of Michigan. He has co-authored
over 120 research and clinical articles, book chapters and books.
Associated translation and dissemination work includes serving as
team leader for the University of Michigan Clinical Practice Guideline
on Depression which has had wide national dissemination, and serving
as team leader for a sophisticated computer-based learning module
on depression used by the ABFM for its Maintenance of Certification
program. He is also a co-editor of the textbook Primary Care
Psychiatry. Dr. Schwenk is the co-author of a set of monographs
on teaching skills for physicians, all of which are in their second
or third edition and have been distributed to over 70,000 physicians
in the past fifteen years. He is board-certified in sports medicine
and has clinical interests in nutritional supplements, ergogenic
aids in sports, and mental illness and burnout in athletes.
