Director, Psychiatry and Psychosocial Services, Moores Cancer Center Director, Palliative Care Psychiatry Associate Clinical Professor, Psychiatry UC San Diego Health Sciences
Psychiatry
Dr. Scott A. Irwin, MD
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Scott A. Irwin is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. He studied medicine at University of Illinois College of Medicine. He over the years received 18 awards: "Scholar", "Visiting Professorship Program Award", "Honoree, Health Care Champion Awards for Innovation and Research", "Service Award", "Health Hero Award", "Physicians of Exceptional Excellence in the Field of Psychiatry, 2014 Top Doctor", "Gold Achievement Award", "Finalist, Health Care Champion Award", "Competitive Renewal Awardee", "Research Scholar", "Competitive Awardee", "APA/Lilly Chief Residents Executive Leadership Program Awardee", "NIMH Outstanding Resident in Psychiatry Award", "PRITE Fellowship", "David Mortimer Olkon Scholarship for Outstanding Senior in Psychiatry", "Raymond Zbick Memorial Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology", "Neuroscience Program Annual Travel Award" and "Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students". Scott Irwin has written publications. He has 28 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Ketamine for the Treatment of Depression in Patients Receiving Hospice Care: A Retrospective Medical Record Review of Thirty-One Cases.'
Publications
- Meaning-centered psychotherapy: a form of psychotherapy for patients with cancer.
- Ketamine for the Treatment of Depression in Patients Receiving Hospice Care: A Retrospective Medical Record Review of Thirty-One Cases.
- Association between Hospice Care and Psychological Outcomes in Alzheimer's Spousal Caregivers.
- Hospice Staff Perspectives on Dignity Therapy.
- Daily Oral Ketamine for the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Patients Receiving Hospice Care: A 28-Day Open-Label Proof-of-Concept Trial.
- Clarifying Delirium Management: Practical, Evidenced-Based, Expert Recommendations for Clinical Practice.
- Palliative care, geriatric psychiatry, and you.
- The role of glutamate in my professional life: From molecular neuroplasticity to the relief of suffering.
- Dignity therapy implementation in a community-based hospice setting.
- The Hospice Caregiver Support Project: Providing Support to Reduce Caregiver Stress.
- Ease of screening for depression and delirium in patients enrolled in inpatient hospice care.
- Oral ketamine for the rapid treatment of depression and Anxiety in patients receiving hospice care.
- Psychiatric issues in palliative care: recognition of depression in patients enrolled in hospice care.
- Fragile X mental retardation protein levels increase following complex environment exposure in rat brain regions undergoing active synaptogenesis.
- Dendritic spine and dendritic field characteristics of layer V pyramidal neurons in the visual cortex of fragile-X knockout mice.
- A converging-methods approach to fragile X syndrome.
- Valproic acid-associated hyperammonemic encephalopathy: a case report from the psychiatric setting.
- Psychiatry resident education in palliative care: opportunities, desired training, and outcomes of a targeted educational intervention.
- The opportunity for psychiatry in palliative care.
- A call for simple and rational palliative medicine psychotropic prescribing guidelines: Response to Barnhorst et al. (Palliative & Supportive Care, Volume 6, Number 1,...
- Psychiatric issues in palliative care: recognition of delirium in patients enrolled in hospice care.
- Evidence for altered Fragile-X mental retardation protein expression in response to behavioral stimulation.
- Dendritic spine structural anomalies in fragile-X mental retardation syndrome.
- Synaptic regulation of protein synthesis and the fragile X protein.
- Abnormal dendritic spine characteristics in the temporal and visual cortices of patients with fragile-X syndrome: a quantitative examination.
- Unrecognised cognitive impairment in hospice patients: a pilot study.
- Conserving dignity.
Schools
University of Illinois At Chicago College of Medicine
Procedures Preformed
- Psychiatric Evaluation
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Anxiety
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Doctors Specialties
- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Scholar
- Visiting Professorship Program Award
- Honoree, Health Care Champion Awards for Innovation and Research
- Service Award
- Health Hero Award
- Physicians of Exceptional Excellence in the Field of Psychiatry, 2014 Top Doctor
- Gold Achievement Award
- Finalist, Health Care Champion Award
- Competitive Renewal Awardee
- Research Scholar
- Competitive Awardee
- APA/Lilly Chief Residents Executive Leadership Program Awardee
- NIMH Outstanding Resident in Psychiatry Award
- PRITE Fellowship
- David Mortimer Olkon Scholarship for Outstanding Senior in Psychiatry
- Raymond Zbick Memorial Award for Excellence in Anesthesiology
- Neuroscience Program Annual Travel Award
- Teachers Rated as Excellent by Their Students
Education
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University of California San Diego -
University of Illinois College of Medicine -
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hospital
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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