Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Paul Desan, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Director, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Yale New Haven Hospital Yale New Haven Hospital Tel: 203 785 2618 Fax: 203 737 2221 Email: paul.desan@yale.edu

Education:

A.B., Princeton University, 1977
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984
M.D., Yale University, 1993

Research Interest:

The Psychiatric Consultation Service provides psychiatric care to adult patients admitted to the medical, surgical and obstetric units of Yale New Haven Hospital. We are interested in both the psychiatric effect of medical illness and its treatment, and the medical effects of psychiatric illness and its treatment. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD, winter depression) has been a particular focus, including the effects of light treatment on biological rhythms, the development of new forms of light treatment based on new discoveries about the type of light that most affects the body clock, and the possible role of blood-borne molecules such as bilirubin as transducers of that light signal.

Area of Expertise:

Consultation-liaison psychiatry (psychosomatic medicine)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Biological rhythms

Achievements and Honors:

2005, Board certification in Psychosomatic Medicine

Publications:

Desan, P. H. Psychosomatic Medicine Revisited. Primary Psychiatry, 36, 2005, 35-36.

Stewart, T., Yusim, A., Desan, P.H. Depression as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Primary Psychiatry, 36, 2005, 36-41.

Desan, P. H., Powsner, S. Assessment and management of patients with psychiatric disorders. Critical Care Medicine, 2004, 32(4 Suppl):S166-73.

Oren, D. A., Desan, P. H., Boutros, N., Anand, A., Charney, D. S. Effects of Light on Low Nocturnal Bilirubin in Winter Depression. Biological Psychiatry, 51, 2002, 422-425.

Desan, P. H., Oren, D. A. Seasonal Affective Disorder: A Circadian Rhythm Disorder? CNS Spectrums, 6, 2001, 487-501.

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