JuanFranciscoLopezMD

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Co-director, Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatric Clinic, University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. Associate Professor Emeritus (Active), Department of Psychiatry and Comprehensive Depression Center. Associate Research Scientist Emeritus (Active), Michigan Neuroscience Institute.

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Office
4250 Plymouth Rd
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone+1 734-657-0062

Summary

Dr. López is a clinician-scientist, an academic psychiatrist with an active clinical practice. Dr. López has extensive experience in the pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and integrative treatment of mood and anxiety disorders. His clinical practice centers on depressive disorders, with a dual focus on treatment resistant depression and perinatal/reproductive psychiatry. Dr. López is Co-director of the Perinatal Psychiatric Clinic at Michigan Medicine. He also performs consultations and second opinions for patients with chronic depression who have failed to respond to multiple treatments. Dr. López has served in several national advisory boards and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of mood disorders, stress, psychopharmacology, suicide, and perinatal psychiatry.

Psychiatric Disorders in the Peripartum Period

Lecture for medical students.

Education & Training

Mental Health Research InstituteFellowship, 1986 - 1990
University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsResidency, Psychiatry, 1984 - 1986
University of MichiganResidency, Psychiatry, 1982 - 1984
University of Puerto Rico School of MedicineClass of 1982

Certifications & Licensure

MI State Medical License 1986 - 2024
IA State Medical License 1984 - 1987
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

St. Camillus Award Lansing Guild Catholic Medical Association, 2009
Kenneth J. Povish Service Award Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, 2004
A.E. Bennett Research Award Society of Biological Psychiatry, 1997
NARSAD Young Investigator Award Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, 1994
American Suicide Foundation Psychiatric Research Development Award American Suicide Foundation, 1993
RWJ Minority Medical Faculty Development Program Robert Wood Johnson, 1989
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
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Clinical Trials

Treatment of Mild to Moderate Depression Symptoms in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury Start of enrollment: 2008 Jun 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Neurobiological Effects of Light on MDD Start of enrollment: 2014 Sep 04
Terminated
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

25 citations
Predictors of recovery from prenatal depressive symptoms from pregnancy through postpartum.
Minden B. Sexton, Heather A. Flynn, Christie A. Lancaster, Sheila M. Marcus, Susan C. McDonough
Journal of Women's Health. 2012-01-12
51 citations
Depressive symptoms during pregnancy: impact on neuroendocrine and neonatal outcomes.
Sheila M. Marcus, Juan F. Lopez, Susan C. McDonough, Michael J. MacKenzie, Heather A. Flynn
Infant Behavior & Development. 2011-02-01
119 citations
Hormonal Evidence for Altered Responsiveness to Social Stress in Major Depression
Elizabeth A. Young, Juan F. Lopez, Virginia Murphy-Weinberg, Stanley J. Watson, Huda Akil
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2000-10-01

Journal Articles

Early Rearing History Influences Oxytocin Receptor Epigenetic Regulation in Rhesus Macaques
Juan Lopez, MD, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1993
Representativeness of obstetric patients who participate in perinatal depression research: findings from the Women's Mental Health and Infants Program (WMHIP) integrat...
Danielle M Novick 1, Lucy Allbaugh, Zhuo Zhao, Erin Henshaw, Delia M Vazquez, Roseanne Armitage, Heather Flynn, Women’s Mental Health and Infants Program (WMHIP), Arch Womens Ment Health . 7(2):97-105, 4/2014
Maternal depression and impaired fetal growth
Berman D, Campbell E, López J, Vasquez D, Marcus S, Treadwell S, Am J Obstet Gynecol 206:S359, 2012
Influence of paroxetine and cognitive/behavioral strategies in neurocardiogenic syncope and depression
Williams RA and López JF, Open Journal of Psychiatry 1:79-87, 2011
López JF
Stress and Antidepressant Modulation of the Limbic HPA Axis. In Neuroimmune Mechanisms and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, NIH Publication No. 04-5497, 2005
Sexually dimorphic effects of stress on learning and memory
Altemus M, Young E, Luine VN, Wood GE, Lopez JF, Biological Psychiatry 51:93S, 2002
Effect of imipramine and swim stress on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
López JF, Vázquez DM, Akil H and Watson SJ, Endocrine Journal 2:723-728, 1994
Corticosteroid regulation of serotonin 1A receptor mRNA and binding in the hippocampus
López JF, Chalmers DT, Vázquez DM, Akil H and Watson SJ, Neuropsychopharmacology 9:84S, 1993
Molecular aspects of the stress axis and serotonergic function in Depression
Chalmers D., López JF, Akil H and Watson SJ, Clinical Neuroscience 1:122-128, 1993
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Books/Book Chapters

Neurobiology of Mental Illness
Chapter: Methods of Postmortem Investigation of Human Brain
López JF, Neal CR, Meador-Woodruff JHEditors: DS Charney and E Nestler.Oxford University PressEdition 2nd,2004
A Research Agenda for DSM-V
Chapter: Neuroscience Research Agenda to Guide Development of a Pathophysiologically Based Classification System
Charney DS, Barlow DH, Botteron K, Cohen JD, Goldman D, Gur RE, Lin K-M, López JF, Meador-Woodrruff JH, Moldin SO, Nestler EJ, Watson SJ and Zalcman SJEditors: David J Kupfer, Michael B. First, and Darrel A. Reiger.American Psychiatric Press, Inc. 2002
The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Basic Psychiatric Science and Treatment
Chapter: Developmental Neuroendocrinology
Page 3 - 31Vázquez DM and López JFEditors: Norman E. Alessi, Joseph T. Coyle, Saul Isaac Harrison and Spencer ETH.John Wiley & Sons, Inc.Edition Vol,1998
Textbook of Psychopharmacology
Chapter: Biochemical Anatomy: Insights Into the Cell Biology and Pharmacology of the Dopamine and Serotonin Systems in the Brain
Mansour A, Meador-Woodruff JH, López JF and Watson SJAmerican Psychiatric Press, Inc.1998
Current Psychiatric Therapy II
Chapter: Treatment of Major Depression
Greden JF and López JFEditors: D. Dunner.American Psychiatric Press, Inc. 1997
CNS Peptide Mechanisms in Stress and Depression
Chapter: The Regulatory Biology of the HPA Axis: An Integrative Approach
Page 1 - 52López JF, Young EA, Herman JP, Akil H and Watson SJEditors: S. Risch.American Psychiatric Press, Inc. 1991
APA Annual Review
Chapter: Neuropeptide biology: Basic and clinical lessons from the opioids
Watson SJ, Kelsey JE, López JF and Akil HEdition 4,1985
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