Research Overview
Dr. Kiosses is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research focuses on the relationship of depression, cognitive deficits, and disability in elderly patients. His has published on the effects of cognitive deficits on disability and on poor outcomes in geriatric depression. Dr. Kiosses has shown that executive dysfunction, a cognitive deficit associated with frontal lobe dysfunction, is associated with impairment in activities of daily living and is a significant predictor of relapse of geriatric depression. Between 2001-2005, Dr. Kiosses received the following awards to develop and pilot-test a new home-delivered psychotherapy for elderly depressed with cognitive deficits and disability: a NARSAD 2001 Young Investigator Award, an award from the Weill Wright Center for Aging Research and Clinical Care, and an award from the Mental Health Initiative Foundation (MINT). In April 2006, he received a five-year Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health. During this award, Dr. Kiosses is testing the efficacy of a new home-delivered psychotherapy designed to treat depression in elderly patients with cognitive deficits and disability.
