Dr. Roberto Lewis-Fernandez is the Director of the Hispanic Treatment Program at the NYS Psychiatric Institute. His current projects include the development of a culturally congruent care program designed for Hispanic outpatients with major depressive disorder, and an assessment of the impact of two interventions on the utilization of primary care-based and specialty-care based mental health services by depressed, low-income Hispanics in Washington Heights. He is a Co-Investigator with CHPS.

Area of expertise
Hispanic and urban populations; cross-cultural psychiatry

Recent publications

Schneier FR, Blanco C, Campeas R, Lewis-Fernández R, Lin S-H, Marshall R, Schmidt AB, Sánchez-Lacay JA, Simpson HB, Liebowitz MR: Citalopram treatment of social anxiety disorder and comorbid major depression. Depression and Anxiety, 2003, 17:191-196 

Dohrenwend, BP, Neria Y, Turner JB, Turse N, Marshall R, Lewis-Fernández R.  Positive tertiary appraisals and posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans: The roles of positive affirmation, positive reformulation, and defensive denial, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004, 72:417-433.

Marshall RD, Turner JB, Lewis-Fernández R, Koenan K, Neria Y, Dohrenwend BP.  Symptom Patterns Associated with Chronic Combat-related PTSD.  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, in press.