
Dr. Douglas M. Ziedonis MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
55 Lake Ave N Department Of Psychi Worcester MA, 01655About
Dr. Douglas Ziedonis is a psychiatrist practicing in Worcester, MA. Dr. Ziedonis is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Ziedonis diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Ziedonis may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Ziedonis treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Penn State Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Naltrexone-bupropion combination therapy for protracted abstinence dysphoria.
- Advances in pharmacotherapy for tobacco dependence.
- Motivational interviewing with personalized feedback: a brief intervention for motivating smokers with schizophrenia to seek treatment for tobacco dependence.
- A case series of nicotine nasal spray in the treatment of tobacco dependence among patients with schizophrenia.
- Applicability of the Fagerström Test for Nicotine Dependence in smokers with schizophrenia.
- Integrated treatment of co-occurring mental illness and addiction: clinical intervention, program, and system perspectives.
- Smoking stage of change and interest in an emergency department-based intervention.
- Effectiveness of workshop training for psychosocial addiction treatments: a systematic review.
- The patient-oriented clinician-researcher: advantages and challenges of being a double agent.
- Developments in pharmacotherapy for tobacco dependence: past, present and future.
- Snuffing out tobacco dependence. Ten reasons behavioral health providers need to be involved.
- Detection of co-occurring mental illness among adult patients in the New Jersey substance abuse treatment system.
Awards
- the American Psychiatric Association Fellow
- Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans Fellow
Professional Memberships
- Member UMass Memorial Medical Group
Fellowships
- University of California, Los Angeles, Fellow:Addiction Medicine 1989
Dr. Douglas M. Ziedonis MD's Practice location
Practice At 55 Lake Ave N Department Of Psychiatry
55 Lake Ave N Department Of Psychi -Worcester, MA 01655Get Direction
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Nearby Providers
- Dr. Allen Masry M.D.305 Belmont Street Worcester MA 01604
- Mrs. Ludmilla L. Tonkonogy MD81 Plantation Street Worcester Massachusetts 01604
- Dr. Brian Skehan M.D.55 Lake Ave N Worcester MA 01655
- Dr. Neelam Varshney M.D.14 Shrewsbury Green Dr Unit K Shrewsbury MA 01545
- Dr. Paul Plasky M.D.55 Lake Ave N Worcester MA 01655
- Dr. Anastasia S Rizos D.O.26 QUEEN ST WORCESTER MA 01610
Nearest Hospitals
UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER INCl
55 LAKE AVENUE NORTH WORCESTER MA 1655ADCARE HOSPITAL OF WORCESTER INCl
107 LINCOLN STREET WORCESTER MA 1605ST VINCENT HOSPITALl
123 SUMMER STREET WORCESTER MA 1608UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO MEDICAL CENTERl
200 WEST ARBOR DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92103SCRIPPS MERCY HOSPITALl
4077 5TH AVE SAN DIEGO CA 92103