Transplant Psychiatry

This book addresses the challenges clinicians face when working with patients facing complicated medical diagnosis for which transplantation is considered.  

Written by experts in transplant psychiatry, each chapter approaches a common psychiatric challenge faced by transplant candidates and recipients. Chapters meticulously share clinical expertise that provides a framework for future discussions without neglecting the fact that each transplant patient is unique in the complexity of their medical diagnosis.  

Additionally, the book examines complex issues including transplant-related posttraumatic stress disorder, post-transplant cognitive impairment, the collaboration between mental health and transplant clinicians, substance use and a wide range of other complicated topics.

Transplant Psychiatry is an excellent case-based guide to mental healthcare delivery for all clinicians who may work with transplant patients, including psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health professionals, transplant surgeons, internal medicine specialists, hematologists, transplant social workers and transplant coordinators.

• Addictive disorders in the transplant candidates or recipients
• Post-transplant persistent cognitive impairment
• Organ donation and mental health
• Mental health services collaboration
• Psychiatric disease and systems of care in organ transplantation

• Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

  Paula C. Zimbrean

• Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA

  Yelizaveta Sher

• Department of Behavioral Health, Inova Fairfax Hospital, George Washington University, Falls Church, USA

  Catherine Crone

• Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Andrea F. DiMartini

Paula C. Zimbrean, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Surgery

Yale University

New Haven, CT

Yelizaveta Sher, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

Psychosomatic Medicine and Consultation Liaison Psychiatry

Stanford University School of Medicine

Standford, CA

Catherine Crone

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

George Washington University

Inova Fairfax Hospital

Falls Church, VA

Andrea DiMartini

Professor of Psychiatry

Surgery and Clinical and Translational Science

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA