Linda Ganzini, M.D., M.P.H.

Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine Senior Scholar, Center for Ethics in Health Care, OHSU
Staff Psychiatrist, Consult-Liaison Psychiatry Service and Outpatient Mental Health
Director, Interprofessional Fellowship Program in Palliative
Care, PVAMC
Director of Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program, PVAMC
Director of the division of Geriatric Psychiatry

1978, BA, Yale University
1983, MD, OHSU
1983-84, Internal Medicine Resident, OHSU
1984-87, Psychiatry Resident, OHSU
1986-87, Chief Resident, Psychiatry, OHSU
1987-89, Gerontology Fellow, PVAMC
2003, MPH, Emphasis in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, OHSU

Diplomate, 1989, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Certification in Geriatric Psychiatry, 1991, 2000 American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Best Doctors in America, Pacific Region, Geriatric Psychiatry, 1996
Project on Death in America, Faculty Scholars Award, 1998-2000
Best Doctors in America, Geriatric Psychiatry, 1998
Best Doctors in America, Psychiatry, 2004

Clinical and Research Interests:

Dr. Ganzini joined the OHSU Department of Psychiatry faculty immediately upon completion of a gerontology fellowship at the Portland VA Medical Center (PVAMC) and a visiting fellowship in psychogeriatrics at Guy's-Hithergreen Hospital, London, in 1989. She also joined the psychiatry staff at the Portland VA as Director of Consult-Liaison Psychiatry (1989-98). From 1993-95, she was co-director of the PVAMC demonstration project, “Enhancing the Management and Continuity of Mental Health Care of Older Veterans in the Acute Psychiatry and Nursing Home Care Unit Settings.” From 1994-97, she was director of the OHSU Medical Student Clerkship in Psychiatry, and from 1996-2001, she was associate director of the OHSU Psychiatry Residency Training Program. The department honored her with the Psychiatry Residency Teaching Award in 1991 and the Distinguished Service Award in 1996 in recognition of her contributions to the residency training program. She was awarded the Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D., Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education by the American Psychiatric Association in 1997 and the Faculty Development Award, in 2003.

Dr. Ganzini's research interests are centered in the areas of geriatric mental health, end-of-life care issues, and improving palliative care for the terminally ill. She received the Young Investigator Award from the NIMH International Congress on Schizophrenia Research in 1991, and in 1993, the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology presented her with its Young Investigator Award. She received the Portland Veterans Affairs Health Care Research Award in 1994. Dr. Ganzini has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, invited articles, book chapters, editorials and commentaries on the topics of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act , physician-assisted suicide (PAS), assessing mental health in the terminally ill, and medical ethics among psychiatrists and health care providers. Additionally Dr. Ganzini was the recipient of the 2005 Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Research Award.