Trisha Suppes, MD, PhD
Academic Appointments
Key Documents
Contact Information
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Clinical Offices
VA Palo Alto Health Care System 3801 Miranda Avenue 151T Palo Alto, CA 94304 Tel Work (650) 493-5000
- Academic Offices
Personal Information EmailAlternate Contact Iola Gwizdowski Research Health Science Specialist Email Tel Work 650. 493.5000 x67571Not for medical emergencies or patient use
Professional Overview
Clinical Focus
- Psychiatry
Administrative Appointments
- Member, Institutional Review Board, Panel 7, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2010 - present)
- Chair for Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense and VA Bipolar Disorder Treatment Guidelines (2008 - present)
- Member, Sub Workgroup for Mood Disorders, American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders 5 (DSM5) (2007 - present)
- Member, Workgroup for Mood Disorders, American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders 5 (DSM5) (2007 - present)
- Member, American Psychiatric Association Work Group for the Practice Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder (2006 - 2009)
Honors and Awards
- Elected by peers for inclusion, Best Doctors in America® (1996-2010)
- Councilor, Board of Councilors, International Society for Bipolar Disorders (ISBD) (2009 Present)
- Elected to Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) (2009 - Present)
- Gerald L. Klerman Senior Investigator Award, Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (2008)
Professional Education
| Residency: | Mclean Hospital MA (06/01/1991) |
| Medical Education: | Dartmouth Medical School NH (06/01/1987) |
| Fellowship: | Harvard Medical School, Neuroscience (1992) |
| Fellowship: | Harvard Medical School, Psychiatry (1992) |
| Residency: | McLean Hospital, Adult Psychiatry (1991) |
| M.D.: | Dartmouth, Medicine (1987) |
Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations
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Scientific Focus
Current Research Interests
Dr. Suppes is the Director of the Bipolar Disorders Research Program at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. She is a recognized expert on the biology and treatment of bipolar disorder. Her areas of specific expertise include long-term treatment strategies for bipolar disorder, identification and treatment of bipolar II disorder, treatment of those with bipolar disorders and co-morbid conditions, and use of complementary medicine for bipolar disorder. Dr. Suppes has been integrally involved in numerous initiatives to improve evidence based treatment for bipolar disorders, including the Texas Medication Algorithm Project and the American Psychiatric Association guidelines for bipolar disorder. These have been widely disseminated and adopted both nationally and internationally.
Publications
- Bipolar mixed states: an international society for bipolar disorders task force report of symptom structure, course of illness, and diagnosis. Am J Psychiatry. 2013; (1): 31-42
- Characteristics of responders and non-responders to risperidone monotherapy or placebo in co-occurring bipolar disorder and anxiety disorder. Eur Psychiatry. 2013; (3): 190-6
- Comparison of objective and subjective assessments of sleep time in subjects with bipolar disorder. J Affect Disord. 2013
- First controlled treatment trial of bipolar II hypomania with mixed symptoms: Quetiapine versus placebo. J Affect Disord. 2013
- Multivariate analysis of bipolar mania: retrospectively assessed structure of bipolar I manic and mixed episodes in randomized clinical trial participants. J Affect Disord. 2013; (1-2): 59-64
- Randomized, placebo-controlled trial of quetiapine XR and divalproex ER monotherapies in the treatment of the anxious bipolar patient. J Affect Disord. 2013; (1): 83-94
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