Stephanie V. Cavanaugh

Biography

Stephanie Cavanaugh, MD, has spent her career at the interface between psychiatry and medicine, neurology, and obstetrics and gynecology. She has had a number of positions at Rush University Medical Center including director of emergency services for psychiatry, founder and director of the internal medical/psychiatry program, director of the Section of Psychiatry and Medicine and the Psychiatric Consultation Service, director of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology, and director of the fellowship in psychosomatic medicine. She was a primary care physician at Illinois Hospital and Cook County Hospital for 15 years. She has educated fellows, residents, medical students in psychiatry, neurology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology. Other activities have included coordinator of the Mental Health Team Commission of Experts of the United Nations Security Counsel Investigating Sexual Assaults in the Former Yugoslavia. She has been on several editorial boards and has been in leadership positions in the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. She was the representative from Rush Medical College to the AAMC Women's Task Force, was a member of the medical affairs management committee for Rush. She has been actively involved in research, specifically in the diagnosis and treatment of depression and other conditions in obstetrics and gynecology and the medically ill. Throughout she has maintained a private practice for patients with psychiatric and other nonpsychiatric medical issues.

Research Interest

Research Areas are Use of antidepressants in patients with cardiocascular disease and other medical illnesses, prevalence of anxiety and depression in medical populations