Overview of Clinical Responsibilities

The clinical services are consultative in nature providing formal and informal consultation to the psychiatric staff including psychiatrist attendings and residents. This includes monitoring and adjusting of medications, education, referrals, and treatment planning. He provides direct consultation for Tuesday afternoons (Dr. Klamen and Dr. Doves) clinics and Thursday morning clinic with Dr. Krasuski. Provide psychopharmacology lectures during the supervision rounds, provide assessment of extra-pyramidal side effects (EPS) utilizing the AIMS or Discus rating scales. Provide written psychopharmacology recommendations to the attending psychiatrist. He is also available for additional consultative support to the psychiatrist including: Computer searches of past hospitalizations, medications and laboratory reports if indicated by the patient. A copy of the data will be included in the patient’s records to be reviewed by the psychiatrist. Obtain a base-line blood pressure, heart rate, and body weight when appropriate. Administer haloperidol or fluphenazine decanoate IM injections when treatment is ordered. Also, he can be called to administer and assess clinical rating instruments such as the Beck’s Depression Inventory or Geriatrics Depression Scale and provide a basic neuro-psychiatric mental status testing. In addition, he can provide Clozapine monitoring services: Benefits of service include: - 1) The availability of consultative support in initiating clozapine and monitoring patients (i.e. WBC, Abnormal Involuntary Movements, Drug interactions, Adverse side-effects). 2) Developing guidelines for the prescribing and monitoring of Clozapine in the ambulatory setting.

He also an investigator and research coordinator for out-patient studies (see below). The responsibilities are to assist and supervise subject recruitment and consent to participate in research, management of the study records, storage, accountability, and dispensing of study medications, and tracking subject study timetables. He also provides clinical monitoring of patients in the clinical studies. Has received training at UIC to administer the following clinical rating scales: Mongomery Asbury Depression Scale, Hamiltion Depression Rating Scale and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scales.

He provides services to the Partial Hospital Program which includes a pharmacist facilitated medication education group once a week and weekly staff meetings. The Medication Education Group is a unique learning environment for pharmacy and medical students on psychiatry rotation. Patients included in the group are patients who are clinically stable on current medication prescribed by the attending psychiatrist. The attending psychiatrist will be notified if the patient’s symptoms are acute and require further interventions beyond the services of the Medication Education Group. The education groups discuss a wide variety of topics including common medication side-effects, common psychiatric symptoms, compliance issues, drug and food interactions, time to treatment response, and duration of treatment. Patients are introduced to the staff and each other prior to starting the group. If some patients are new to the group the facilitator will usually ask for a volunteer from the group to explain the purpose of the group. The facilitator will facilitate group discussion about medications. To facilitate discussion, the facilitator may review an individual patient’s medications, determine if other patients are on similar medications and then facilitate a discussion focused on the medication class and characteristics common with the medications. The group forum allows the pharmacist to assess the patients may require the pharmacist to contact the attending psychiatrist to discuss problems and recommendations to the attending psychiatrist. Then the pharmacist documents and discusses pertinent information with the attending psychiatrist.

Provides psychopharmacological education to the pharmacy, medical, nursing, social work, and psychology trainees and staff.

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Post-Doctoral Training

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Research Projects

Funded Grants/Sponsorships:

• Clinician-Patient Relationship Preferences Among Male and Female Psychiatric Patients. Sponsored by Research Infrastructure Support Program (RISP), Co-investigator Awarded $8000.00.

• The Assessment of Nizatidine for the Prevention of Olanzapine-Associated weight gain in patients with Schzophrenia. Sponsored by Lilly Research. Co-coordinator, April, 2000. IRB approved

• A Development Model of Doctor-Patient Relations. Kaplan K., Schneiderhan ME. The 1999 Summer Student Research Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the Research and Education Foundation of the Michael Reese Medical Staff. $1,800; June 1999.

• A Development Model of Doctor-Patient Relations. Kaplan K., Schneiderhan ME. The 1998 Summer Student Research Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the Research and Education Foundation of the Michael Reese Medical Staff. $1,800; June 1998.
• A Development Model of Doctor-Patient Relations. Kaplan K., Schneiderhan ME. The 1997 Summer Student Research Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the Research and Education Foundation of the Michael Reese Medical Staff. $1,800; June 1997.
• A Retrospective Comparison of Valproic Acid and Lithium in Patients with Manic Symptoms. Abbott Pharmaceuticals Inc. Approved and funded; $5000; September, 1993.
• Fluphenazine Decanoate Drug Use Evaluation. UpJohn. Approved and funded; $1000; October, 1993.

Unfunded Grants:

• A Randomized, Blinded, Comparison of Clinical and Economic outcomes in a Bipolar Disorder Critical Pathway Model Versus a Traditional Clinical Model. Seabolt J., Schneiderhan, ME. Submitted to Abbott Laboratories; March 16, 1998.

• A Randomized, Blinded, Comparison of Clinical and Economic outcomes in a Major Depression Critical Pathway Model Versus a Traditional Clinical Model. Seabolt J., Schneiderhan, ME. Submitted to 1998 NARSAD Young Investigator Award and HansVahlteich Endowment Program Funds.

• Pharmacist Perspective of Physician Assisted Death in Michigan, Illinois, and Oregon: An Empirical Study. Schneiderhan ME. 1998 HansVahlteich Endowment Program Funds.

• A Comparison of Antidepressant Treatment Outcome and Utilization of Psychiatric Services in HIV-infected Patients versus Non-HIV-Infected Patients with Major Depression. Submitted to the Michael Reese Research Foundation.

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