Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
EDUCATION
- University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, Medical Doctorate
- University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, Master of Public Health
- University of California at Santa Cruz, Art History and Biology, B.A. with highest honors
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
- Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Adult Psychiatry Residency
- UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital and Institute, Mood Disorders Research Fellowship and Deutsch Foundation Mood Disorders Clinical Fellowship
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS AND HONORS
- Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry)
- Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Psychiatric Association
Southern California Psychiatric Society
California Psychiatric Association
American Medical Association
Los Angeles Medical Association
California Medical Association
Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies
National Alliance on Mental Illness
PRESENTATIONS and RESEARCH
PRESENTATIONS AT NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
- Treating the Chronically Depressed Patient Using CBASP. Presented at the American Psychiatric Association Meetings, 2008- 2012.
- Frye MA, Levander E, McElroy S, Suppes T, Keck P, Nolen W, Leverich GS, Grunze H, Walden J, Kupka R, Altshuler LL, Mintz J, Post R: Additional axis I comorbidity in patients with bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Fourth European Stanley Conference on Bipolar, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2004.
- Levander E, Frye MA, Hwang S, McElroy SL, Keck PE, Altshuler LL, Suppes, T, Leverish GS, Nolen WA, Kupka RW, Grunze H, Walden J, Post RM: The impact of alcoholism on bipolar illness morbidity. American Psychiatric Association Meeting, New York, NY May 2004.
RESEARCH PAPERS
- Bearden CE, Shih VH, Green MF, Gitlin M, Sokolski KN, Levander E, Marusak S, Hammen C, Sugar CA, Altshuler LL. The impact of neurocognitive impairment on occupational recovery of clinically stable patients with bipolar disorder: a prospective study. Bipolar Disord, 2011;13:323-33.
- Cardenas J, Frye MA, Marusak SL, Levander E, Chirichigno JW, Lewis S, Nakelsky S, Hwang S, Mintz J, Altshuler LL: Modal subcomponents of metabolic syndrome in patients with bipolar disorder. J Affective Disorders, 2008;106: 91-97.
- Levander E, Frye MA, Mcelroy S, Suppes T, Grunze H, Nolen WA, Kupka R, Keck PE, Leverich GS, Altshuler LL, Hwang S, Mintz J, Post RM: Alcoholism and anxiety in bipolar illness: differential lifetime anxiety comorbidity in bipolar I women with and without alcoholism. J Affective Disorders, 2007; 211-7.
