Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Medical Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Services Program
University of Washington at Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Avenue, PSB-1120
Box 359797
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 744-9626
snowden@u.washington.edu
Educational Background:
- BA, Princeton University- Princeton, NJ, English Literature, 1984
- MD, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle, WA, Medicine, 1990
- Residency, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle, WA, Psychiatry, 1994
- Senior Fellow, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle, WA, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars, 1996
- Fellowship, University of Washington School of Medicine- Seattle, WA, Geriatric Psychiatry, 1996
- MPH, University of Washington School of Public Health- Seattle, WA, Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, 1996
Current Research Interests:
- Depression
- Geriatrics
- Nursing Home studies
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
CHAMMP-Related Projects:
PEARLS Dissemination (PI: Snowden)
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1R18DP001150-01
9/07-9/10
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Improving Mental Health Care in Safety Net Medical Settings: T32 Training Grant (PI: Roy-Byrne)
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
7/1/10-3/31/15
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Assessment of the PHQ-9) for Diagnosis of Depression in Primary Care Elderly (PI: Phelan)
Sponsor: CHAMMP Small Grants Program
2006 Small Grant Award recipient
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Selected Publications:
- Snowden, M., Steinman, L., & Frederick, J. (2008). Treating depression in older adults: Expert recommendations and challenges to implementing the recommendations of an expert panel. Preventing Chronic Disease, 5(1): A26.
- Frederick, J.T., Steinman, L.E., Prohaska, T., Satariano, W.A., Bruce, M., Bryant, L., Ciechanowski, P., DeVellis, B., Leith, K., Leyden, K.M., Sharkey, J., Simon, G.E., Wilson, N., Unutzer, J., Snowden, M., for the Late Life Depression Special Interest Project (SIP) Panelists Community. (2007). Based treatment of late life depression – An expert panel informed literature review. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33(3), 222-249.
- Steinman, L., Frederick, J.T., Prohaska, T., Satariano, W.A., Dornberg-Lee, S., Fisher, R., Graub, P.B., Leith, K., Presby, K., Sharkey, J., Snyder, S., Turner, D., Wilson, N., Yagoda, L., Unutzer, J., Snowden, M., for the Late Life Depression Special Interest Project (SIP) Panelists. (2007). Recommendations for addressing depression in community-based older adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 33(3), 175-181.
- Carlson, W., & Snowden, M. (2007). Improving treatment for depression in the nursing home population: integrating the depression care manager model. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 15,128-132.
- Steffens, D., Snowden, M., Fan, M., Hendrie, H., Katon, W., Unutzer, J., et al. (2006). Cognitive Impairment and Depression Outcomes in the IMPACT Study. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14, 401-409.
- Peskind, E., Tsuang, D., Kiyasu, E., Eugenio, C., Rein, R., Snowden, M., et al. (2005). Propranolol for disruptive behaviors in nursing home residents with probable or possible Alzheimer’s Disease: a placebo controlled study. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 19, 23-8.
- Bharani, N., & Snowden M. (2005). Evidence-based interventions for nursing home residents with dementia-related behavioral symptoms. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 28, 985-1005.
- Walaszek, A., & Snowden, M. (2004). Repeat cognitive screening of initially normal primary care elderly. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 12, 545-546.
- Snowden, M., Walaszek, A., Russo, J., Comtois, K., Srebnik, D., Ries, R., & Roy-Byrne P. (2004). Geriatric patients improve as much as younger patients from hospitalization on general psychiatric units. Journal of the American Geriatric Society, 52, 1676-1680.
- Snowden, M. (2004). The Minimum Data Set Depression Rating Scale (MDSDRS) lacks reliability for identifying depression among older adults living in nursing homes. Evidence Based Mental Health, 7, 7.