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Yeates Conwell is affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center in the United States. Their research spans across medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, health, and psychiatry and mental health. Conwell's work frequently addresses complex topics related to suicide and self-harm studies, health disparities and outcomes, mental health treatment and access, pharmaceutical practices and patient outcomes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, geriatric care and nursing homes, as well as health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life.

Several journals serve as common venues for Conwell's publications, including:

  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Among recent papers connected to their research interests, notable examples include:

  • Estimating the sample mean and standard deviation from commonly reported quantiles in meta-analysis, 2020, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Strategies to Promote Social Connections Among Older Adults During "Social Distancing" Restrictions, 2020, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Emotional Well-Being: What It Is and Why It Matters, 2022, Affective Science
  • Patient Health Questionnaire-9 scores do not accurately estimate depression prevalence: individual participant data meta-analysis, 2020, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
  • Association Between Neurological Disorders and Death by Suicide in Denmark, 2020, JAMA

Yeates Conwell has collaborated frequently with several researchers in related fields. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Liat Ayalon
  • Jinjiao Wang
  • Thomas V. Caprio
  • Fang Yu
  • Alastair J. Flint

Their contributions underline a continuous engagement with research communities focused on geriatric psychiatry, psychological health, and medical aspects of aging and mental health disorders. The multidisciplinary approach integrates clinical findings with broader social and health system perspectives, addressing critical issues such as suicide prevention, mental health treatment accessibility, and aging populations' well-being.

Best Publications

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late Life: Consensus Statement Update

    Barry D. Lebowitz;Jane L. Pearson;Lon S. Schneider;Charles F. Reynolds

  • Relationships of Age and Axis I Diagnoses in Victims of Completed Suicide: A Psychological Autopsy Study

    Yeates Conwell;Paul R. Duberstein;Christopher Cox;John H. Herrmann

  • Risk factors for suicide in later life

    Yeates Conwell;Paul R. Duberstein;Eric D. Caine

  • Screening for Depression in Elderly Primary Care Patients: A Comparison of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies—Depression Scale and the Geriatric Depression Scale

    Jeffrey M. Lyness;Tamson Kelly Noel;Christopher Cox;Deborah A. King

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Late Life

    Arnold J. Friedhoff;James Ballenger;Alan S. Bellack;William T. Carpenter

  • Suicide in Older Adults

    Yeates Conwell;Kimberly A. Van Orden;Eric D. Caine

  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance consensus statement on the unmet needs in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders in late life.

    Dennis S. Charney;Charles F. Reynolds;Lydia Lewis;Barry D. Lebowitz

  • Risk Factors for Late-Life Suicide: A Prospective, Community-Based Study

    Carolyn L. Turvey;Yeates Conwell;Michael P. Jones;Caroline Phillips

  • Four studies on how past and current suicidality relate even when "everything but the kitchen sink" is covaried.

    Thomas E. Joiner Jr.;Yeates Conwell;Kathleen Kara Fitzpatrick;Tracy K. Witte

  • Validation of a Measure of Physical Illness Burden at Autopsy: The Cumulative Illness Rating Scale

    Yeates Conwell;Nicholas T. Forbes;Christopher Cox;Eric D. Caine

  • A Systematic Review of Elderly Suicide Prevention Programs

    Sylvie Lapierre;Annette Erlangsen;Margda Waern;Diego De Leo

  • Method Choice, Intent, and Gender in Completed Suicide

    Diane G. Denning;Yeates Conwell;Deborah King;Chris Cox

  • Suicidal Behavior in Elders

    Yeates Conwell;Catherine Thompson

  • Age Differences in Behaviors Leading to Completed Suicide

    Yeates Conwell;Paul R. Duberstein;Christopher Cox;John Herrmann

  • Validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ‐2) in Identifying Major Depression in Older People

    Chunyu Li;Bruce Friedman;Yeates Conwell;Kevin Fiscella

  • Suicide and aging. I: Patterns of psychiatric diagnosis.

    Yeates Conwell;David Brent

  • Psychological vulnerability to completed suicide: a review of empirical studies

    Kenneth R. Conner;Paul R. Duberstein;Yeates Conwell;Larry Seidlitz

  • Completed suicide among older patients in primary care practices: a controlled study

    Yeates Conwell;Jeffrey M. Lyness;Paul Duberstein;Christopher Cox

  • If suicide is a public health problem, what are we doing to prevent it?

    Kerry L. Knox;Yeates Conwell;Eric D. Caine

  • Suicide at 50 years of age and older: perceived physical illness, family discord and financial strain.

    P. R. Duberstein;Yeates Conwell;Kenneth R. Conner;S. Eberly

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul R. Duberstein
Paul R. Duberstein Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Eric D. Caine
Eric D. Caine University of Rochester Medical Center
Kenneth R. Conner
Kenneth R. Conner University of Rochester Medical Center
Christopher Cox
Christopher Cox Johns Hopkins University
Kimberly A. Van Orden
Kimberly A. Van Orden University of Rochester Medical Center
Jeffrey M. Lyness
Jeffrey M. Lyness University of Rochester Medical Center
Mao-Sheng Ran
Mao-Sheng Ran University of Hong Kong
Deborah A. King
Deborah A. King University of Rochester Medical Center
Helen F.K. Chiu
Helen F.K. Chiu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Marnin J. Heisel
Marnin J. Heisel University of Western Ontario

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