JABSOM Faculty & Staff
Iqbal Ahmed:
Department: Psychiatry
Title: Professor
Credentials: MD, FRCPsych (U.K)
Position: Professor
Contact Info
Email: AhmedI@dop.hawaii.edu
Phone: 586-2900
Fax: 586-2940
Address:
1356 Lusitana st 4th floor
Honolulu Hi 9813
Webpage: http://dop.hawaii.edu
Education: St. John’s Medical College, M.B., B.S., 1974
St. Martha’s Hospital, Bangalore, India, Rotating Internship, 1969-74
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Psychiatry Residency, 1976-79
Boston University School of Medicine at Boston City Hospital, Consult Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, 1979-81

RELEVANT PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor – Boston
University, 1981-87
Director, Geriatric Neuropsychiatry Unit – Boston city, 1985-87
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry – Tufts University School of Medicine, 1987-92
Geriatric Psychopharmacology Consultant – Tufts New England, 1987-92
Director of Geriatric Psychiatry – Tufts New England, 1987-92
Associate Professor - University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1992-97
Chief of Geriatric Neuropsychiatric Unit - Hawaii State Hospital, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 1992-96
Chief of Special Services - Hawaii State Hospital, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 1992-94
Training Director and Co-Program Director - Geriatric Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1995-98
Assistant Training Director - General Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1996
Training Director - General Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1996-98
Program Director – General Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1998 – August 2004
Program Director – Geriatric Psychiatry Residency Program, University of Hawaii, JABSOM, 1998-August 2004
Professor of Psychiatry, 1997-.
Research Areas: Psychopharmacological treatment in the medically ill and the elderly
Psychopharmacological treatment of behavioral symptoms in dementia
Psychiatric manifestations of neurological disorders, especially traumatic brain injury

PUBLICATIONS

Fujii, D.E.M; Ahmed, I: Is Psychosis a Neurobiological Syndrome? Can J Psychiatry 2004; 49: 713-718
Fujii, D.E.M; Ahmed, I; Hishinuma, E: A Neuropsychological Comparison of Psychotic Disorder Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury without Psychotic Disorder, and Schizophrenia. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 16: 306-314, 2004.
Guerrero A; Hishinuma E; Serrano A; Ahmed I: Use of “Mechanistic Case Diagramming” Technique to Teach the Bio-Psycho-Social-Cultural Formulation to Psychiatric Clerks”. Academic Psychiatry, 27: 88-92, 2003
Takeshita, J; Masaki, K; Fujii, D; Ahmed, I; Foley, D; Li, YQ; Ross, GW; Petrovich, H; White, L: Depressive Symptomatology is a Risk Factor for Mortality in Elderly Japanese-American Men: The Honolulu-Asia Aging Study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, July 159(7): 1127-32, 2002
Fujii, D.E.M; Ahmed, I: Psychotic Disorder Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Conceptual Framework. Journal of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 7: 41-62, 2002
Fujii, D.E.M; Ahmed, I: Characteristics of Psychotic Disorder Due to Traumatic Brain Injury: An Analysis of Case Studies in the Literature. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 14: 2002.
Trannel T; Ahmed I; Goebert D: The occurrence of Thrombocytopenia in Psychiatric Patients Taking Valproate. American Journal of Psychiatry, 158: 128-130, 2001.
Fujii, D.E.M; Ahmed, I: Risk Factors for Psychosis Secondary to Traumatic Brain Injury. . Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 13: 61-69, 2001.
Shepherd, J; Heiby, E.M; Holmes, J.A; Ahmed, I; Jones, C.J: The Relation Between Type of Antidepressant and Neurovegetative Symptoms in Adult Unipolar Nonpsychotic Depression: An Opinion Survey. Hawaii Medical Journal, 59: 389-392, 2000.
Gansler, D.A; Harris, G.J; Oscar-Berman, M.O; Streeter, C; Lewis, R.F; Ahmed, I; Achong, D: Hypoperfusion of Inferior Frontal Brain Regions in Abstinent Alcoholics: A Pilot SPECT Study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61: 32-37, 2000.

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSE(S)

ABPN (Psychiatry), 1980, No. 21172 ABPN (Geriatric), 1991, No. 5. Recertified in 2000
Board Examiner American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Oral Board Examination: 1989, 1992 (Senior Examiner since 1997)
Member of the Royal College Psychiatrists (M.R.C. Psych.) of England, January, 1982 (psychiatric board certification in England).
Certificate in Clinical Psychopharmacology, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Inc., Dec, 1998. Recertified in 2003
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