Background
Francine Cournos was born on the 29th of June, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States, the daughter of Alexander and Muriel Cournos.
Francine Cournos
1967
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, United States
Francine Cournos attended City College of New York from 1963, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry Magna Cum Laude in 1967.
1971
550 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States
Francine Cournos studied at New York University School of Medicine from 1967 to 1971, where she obtained a Doctor of Medicine.
1967
160 Convent Ave, New York, NY 10031, United States
Francine Cournos attended City College of New York from 1963, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry Magna Cum Laude in 1967.
1971
550 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States
Francine Cournos studied at New York University School of Medicine from 1967 to 1971, where she obtained a Doctor of Medicine.
Francine Cournos
(While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness...)
While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness for the same reasons it does in the general population, there are specific ways in which mental illness is associated with elevated HIV risk. Every mental health institution or program now has to deal with the consequences of increased HIV rates, but until now there has been no single book that could tell them how to do so. AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness covers the entire range of information essential for those who deal with these patients: epidemiological, medical, psychological, legal, ethical, and policy issues are all examined by eminent authorities in those areas.
https://www.amazon.com/AIDS-People-Severe-Mental-Illness/dp/0300067577
1996
(City of One is a poignant and beautifully written memoir ...)
City of One is a poignant and beautifully written memoir of childhood loss and its enduring meaning. Francine Cournos was three years old when her father died, and by the time she was eleven, her mother was dead of breast cancer.
https://www.amazon.com/City-One-Memoir-Francine-Cournos/dp/0595414982
1999
(This volume provides an update on HIV-related issues for ...)
This volume provides an update on HIV-related issues for mental health professionals. It includes an overview of basic medical facts, neuropsychiatric manifestations, common psychiatric syndromes, and their treatment, psychotherapy and coping strategies, prevention, adherence, legal and ethical issues, and some examples of HIV-related clinical care by frontline mental health providers.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Mental-Health-Practioners-about/dp/0787914363
2000
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Francine Cournos was born on the 29th of June, 1945 in New York City, New York, United States, the daughter of Alexander and Muriel Cournos.
Francine Cournos entered City College of New York in 1963, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry Magna Cum Laude in 1967. She also studied at New York University School of Medicine from 1967 to 1971, where she obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree.
Francine Cournos began her career as an intern at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where she worked from 1971 to 1972. She also did a non-psychiatric residency from 1972 to 1973 there.
An additional residency in psychiatry followed at New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City, where she served from 1973 to 1976. In 1976, she began private practice as a psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and in 1978 accepted the post of director of the Washington Heights Community Service, a bilingual and bicultural program of the New York State Psychiatric Institute to serve people suffering from severe mental illness in northern Manhattan, which she held until 2010. In 1982 - 1989, Francine Cournos was Chief Medical Officer and Psychiatric Consultant at New York City Regional Office of the New York State Office of Mental Health.
Cournos also held senior positions at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in the 2000s. She was the Interim Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute from 2003 to 2004 and then served as Deputy Director and Vice-Chair of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University from 2005 to 2006.
Doctor Cournos has worked in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness since 1983 and has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy development projects. From 2000, Francine participated in international HIV-related mental health projects in Brazil, Canada, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Tanzania. She has performed site visits to numerous international medical schools.
In 2006, Cournos became a Principal Investigator of the New York/New Jersey AIDS Education and Training Project at Mailman School of Public Health. She is also part of Columbia University's Global Mental Health Program, a joint endeavor between the Mailman School of Public Health and the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University, since 2010. Previously, in 1995 – 2005, she has served as a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In 1996, Cournos was an editor with Nicholas Bakalar of AIDS and People with Severe Mental Illness: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals. In 1999, she wrote City Of One, a memoir describing her own experiences as an orphan and foster child and the psychological sequelae. She has since given many talks and participated in many forums focused on the mental health needs of bereaved children and those in foster care.
Doctor Cournos was a true pioneer in the area of HIV/AIDS and mental illness, having been involved with AIDS and its mental health implications since 1983 when much about the disease was still unknown and it was surrounded more by fear than by science.
She has participated in numerous research projects, training grants, practice guidelines, and policy development projects related to HIV/AIDS and mental health. Her particular interest is the treatment of HIV positive people with severe mental illness. Internationally, she has worked on approaches to treating mental health disorders in the context of the antiretroviral rollout.
Cournos has published more than 130 articles and book chapters, the majority of which are focused on mental health and HIV, and has given more than one thousand local, national and international talks.
Francine Cournos has received a number of awards including the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 1999. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
(While HIV spreads among people with severe mental illness...)
1996(City of One is a poignant and beautifully written memoir ...)
1999(This volume provides an update on HIV-related issues for ...)
2000Francine Cournos has been a member of the Board of Directors of Brightpoint Health, Phi Beta Kappa, New York Academy of Medicine, American Association of Community Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association, and Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
Francine Cournos is married to Nicholas Bahalar. The couple has a daughter, Elizabeth.
