Catatonia
Jo Ellen Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH
Dr. Wilson will review the epidemiology of catatonia, its clinical presentation, diagnostic approach and treatment recommendations. She will also share highlights from the recently published American Psychiatric Association Resource Document for catatonia.
Dr. Jo Ellen Wilson is a Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist, Epidemiologist at Vanderbilt and a Physician Scientist at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) with a research focus on acute and chronic forms of brain dysfunction that occurs as a part of critical illness and aging. Dr. Wilson completed medical school, general adult psychiatry residency and a consultation liaison psychiatry fellowship at Vanderbilt. After joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2014, Dr. Wilson completed a master's in public health (MPH; 2016), PhD in Epidemiology (2023), and post-doctoral research fellowship at the VA GRECC.
Dr. Wilson's recent research has focused on acute brain dysfunction (catatonia, delirium and coma) in the setting of critical illness in her prospective cohort study ("Delirium and Catatonia Prospective Cohort Study"), now serving as the co-Principal Investigator on a trial ready cohort for Down Syndrome and clinical trials using novel therapeutics to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease in middle aged adults with Down Syndrome.