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Published Online: 31 July 2020

A Call to Protect the Health Care Workers Fighting COVID-19 in the United States

Alexander W. Charney, M.D. [email protected], Craig Katz, M.D., Steven M. Southwick, M.D., and Dennis S. Charney, M.D. [email protected]Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 177, Number 10
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.20040535
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American Journal of Psychiatry
Volume 177 • Number 10 • October 01, 2020
Pages: 900 - 901
PubMed: 32731814

History

Accepted: 15 June 2020
Published online: 31 July 2020
Published in print: October 01, 2020

Keywords

  1. COVID-19
  2. Coronavirus
  3. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
  4. PTSD

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Alexander W. Charney, M.D. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry (A.W. Charney, Katz, Southwick, D.S. Charney), Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (A.W. Charney), Department of Neuroscience (A.W. Charney, D.S. Charney), and Department of Medical Education and Department of Health System Design and Global Health (Katz), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. (A.W. Charney); and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Southwick).
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Craig Katz, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry (A.W. Charney, Katz, Southwick, D.S. Charney), Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (A.W. Charney), Department of Neuroscience (A.W. Charney, D.S. Charney), and Department of Medical Education and Department of Health System Design and Global Health (Katz), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. (A.W. Charney); and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Southwick).
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Steven M. Southwick, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry (A.W. Charney, Katz, Southwick, D.S. Charney), Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (A.W. Charney), Department of Neuroscience (A.W. Charney, D.S. Charney), and Department of Medical Education and Department of Health System Design and Global Health (Katz), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. (A.W. Charney); and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Southwick).
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Dennis S. Charney, M.D. [email protected]
Department of Psychiatry (A.W. Charney, Katz, Southwick, D.S. Charney), Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Center (A.W. Charney), Department of Neuroscience (A.W. Charney, D.S. Charney), and Department of Medical Education and Department of Health System Design and Global Health (Katz), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South), James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y. (A.W. Charney); and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. (Southwick).
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Notes

Send correspondence to Dr. Alexander Charney ([email protected]) and Dr. Dennis Charney ([email protected]).

Funding Information

Dr. Dennis Charney is named as a coinventor on patents filed by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai related to treatment of treatment-resistant depression, suicidal ideation, and other disorders; to a cognitive training intervention to treat depression and related psychiatric disorders; to the use of intranasally administered neuropeptide Y for the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders; and to the use of ketamine for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. The Icahn School of Medicine has entered into licensing agreements with Click Therapeutics and Janssen and has received and will receive payments from these companies under the agreements related to some of these patents, under which Dr. Charney may also receive payments. Dr. Charney also receives research funding from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Katz has served as a consultant to Advanced Recovery Systems. Dr. Southwick receives royalties from Cambridge University Press. Dr. Alexander Charney reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.

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