Dr. Sidney Zisook reviews medical content for
Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better
health decisions. Dr. Zisook is a professor of psychiatry at the University of
California, San Diego. Dr. Zisook is an associate editor for the
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry and serves on the board
for Family Practice Recertification. He actively reviews for a multitude of
journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry
and the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Zisook is
actively involved in a variety of research projects related to mood and anxiety
disorders and a variety of psychopharmacologic agents.
Board Certifications
American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology-1975
Healthwise Knowledgebase Topics Reviewed
Grief
Education
MD: Stritch-Loyola, Chicago, IL, 1969
Internship: Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, IL,
1970
Residency: Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,
MA, 1973
Fellowship: Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
MA, 1973
Academic Appointments
Academic/Professional Appointments Board
Examiner, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology,
1980-present
University of California, San Diego Medical Center
Hospital, San Diego, CA
Director, Residency Training Program,
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA,
1995-present
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of
California, San Diego, CA, 1987-present
Professional Affiliations
American Academy of Clinical
Psychiatry
American College of Psychiatry
American
Psychiatric Association
American Society of Clinical
Psychopharmacology
San Diego Psychiatric Society
Selected Publications
Zisook S, Shuchter SR, Dunn LB (2004).
Comprehensive review of geriatric psychiatry. In Grief and Bereavement, 3rd edition, pp. 579-608. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and
Company
Dutton SC, Zisook S (2005). Adaptation to bereavement.
Death Studies, 29(10): 877-903.
Zisook, S,
Kendler K. (2007). Is bereavement related depression different than
non-bereavement related depressions? Psychological Medicine, 37(6): 779-794.
Zisook S, Shear K, Kendler KS
(2007). Validity of the bereavement exclusion criterion for the diagnosis of
major depressive episode. World Psychiatry, 6(2):
102-107.
Zisook S, Shear K, Irwin S (in press). Death, dying, and
bereavement. In BJ Sadock, et al., eds., Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th ed. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott,
Williams, and Wilkins.
