Professional Activities:

CURRENT AND PAST INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERCENT EFFORT:

Course Director:
Psychopathology II: A series of lectures to M3 medical students
American University of Beirut Medical School 		1977-79
Instructor:
PGY-II Core Curriculum (Neuroscience: Cerebral laterality)
University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry 		1980-82
Instructor:
Introduction of Clinical Psychiatry
University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry 		1982-85
Supervisor:
Clinical Teaching of Residents and Students
University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry 		1982-85  
Supervision of M4 Elective and Honor Students
  • Jeffrey Wall (psych research)
  • John Moranville (psych research)
Elizabeth Ann Emme (senior elective in inpatient psychiatry) 		1985
Lecturer:
Neural and Behavioral Sciences 600 (lecture on psychoimmunology) M2
University of Michigan Medical School 		1986-88
Instructor:
PGY-II Core Curriculum (Neuroscience: Psychoimmunology
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry 		1986-88
Instructor:
Introduction to Clinical Skills ICS 511 (Coordinator of the Psychiatry portion) M1, M2
University of Michigan Medical School 		1986-92
Instructor:
Senior Pharmacology and Therapeutics: “Practical Issues in Psychopharmacology” M4
University of Michigan, Department of Pharmacology 		1988-92

 

Instructor:
Advanced Psychopharmacology Core Seminar: “Treatment Resistant Depression”
University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry

1991-92

Instructor:
Lectures and Seminars in General Psychiatry (M3, M4)
American University of Beirut, Department of Internal Medicine

1991

Research Mentor:
Post Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Minority Fellowship Program
University of Michigan Medical School

  • Tyra Despenza

1992-93

Supervision of Medical Students (M1 and M2) summer research:

  • Curtis Sturos (1989)
  • Myles Spar (1990)
  • Christopher Vallorosi (1990)
  • David Yue (1991)
  • Mark Shwartz (1991)
  • Eric Neal (1994)

1989-94

Coordinator, M3 Student Component III Seminar “Disorders of Mood” University of Michigan Medical School

1993-94

Tutor, Independent Study, LSA Student (Biology Major)
University of Michigan, Literature, Science and the Arts

1994-95

Coordinator, Medical Student Education
Department of Psychiatry, Ambulatory Division
University of Michigan Medical School

1997-99

Clinical Teaching, Supervision of Residents and Students
University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry

1986-2006

Instructor:
Department of Psychiatry, Clerkship Core Seminar
University of Michigan Medical School

1986-2006

 

PGY II, III & IV Core Seminars, Lectures on affective disorders, psychopharmacology and psychoimmunology
University of Michigan, Department of Psychiatry

 

1989-2006

Coordinator, M4 Elective, Ambulatory Division, Department of Psychiatry
University of Michigan Medical School

  • Amer Tfaili (1999)
  • Ken Takekoshi (2000)
  • Asra Hamzavi (2002)

1997-2003

Course Co-director “Brain & Mind” Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (M2)

2007- present

Clerkship Director – Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
(M3-M4)

2007- present

Sponsor, Fourth Year Elective, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

2008- present

Sponsor, Fourth Year Elective, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Advanced Studies in the Psychoses

2008- present

Clinical Care

Dates

Inpatient Psychiatry : team leader on an acute inpatient psychiatric unit:
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
University of Michigan Health System
University of Michigan Health System

 

1982-1985
1986-1994
2003-2006

Outpatient psychiatry: initial evaluation and/or follow up care of psychiatric patients in an outpatient setting
American University of Beirut Hospital
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
University of Michigan Health System
Hamad Medical Corporation

1977-1979
1982-1985
1986-2006
2009-Present

 

Consultation/Liaison: psychiatric consultations in a general medical setting and Psychiatric Emergency Services (mostly part-time)
American University of Beirut Hospital:
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics:
Iowa City VAMC (chief C/L service)
University of Michigan Health System (while on-call)

 

1977-1979
1982-1985
1984-1985
1986-2006

 

Research Mentor, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

  • Marwa Saleh (2012)
  • Maha Al-Ghafri (2012)
  • Ameen Al-Ajhel (2013)

 

 

2012-2013
Administrative duties
Iowa City VAMC (chief C/L service) 		Dates
1984-1985
Member, Search Committee, Inpatient Director, Clinical Studies Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1986
Member, Search Committee, Clinical Psychologist, VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 1986-1987
Member, Ad Hoc Committee, Appointments and Promotions Committee, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1986-1987
Member, Search Committee, Staff Psychiatrist, Adult Inpatient Psychiatry (9C), Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1986-1987
Director, Psychoimmunology Program,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 		1986-2006
Member, Search Committee, Director, Eating Disorder Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1987
Member, Research Assay Support Laboratory Committee (RASL), Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1987-1997
Research Director, Adult Inpatient Program,
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 		1988-91
Member, Task Force to review psychotherapeutic agents on Hospital Formulary, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1990
  Member, Ad Hoc Committee, Appointments and Promotions, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan   1992
Chairperson, Search Committee, Psycho immunology Laboratory Director, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1992-1993
Member, Search Committee, Director, Depression Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1992-94
Member, Adverse Event Review (previously Continuous Quality Improvement) Committee, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan 1995-2006

 

 

Ziad Kronfol

Professor

 

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