This lecture was supported by Grant Number 6H79FG000999-01M001 from SAMHSA. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of SAMHSA.  

About the speaker

Dr. Lenze is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Healthy Mind Lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Dr. Lenze is renowned for his research in depression, anxiety, and cognitive functioning in older adults.  Among his more than 350 publications are studies published in JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Lancet. 

Dr. Lenze’s research aims at reducing the negative outcomes of mental illness such as premature age-related morbidity.  He is testing senolytic drugs to “turn back the clock on aging” in individuals with depression and other illnesses associated with accelerated aging (such as schizophrenia). 

Dr. Lenze is also a champion of better ways to treat mental illness within the health system.  In 2021, he established the first-ever Center for Perioperative Mental Health, aimed at bringing high-quality treatment for depression, anxiety, and other illness, into the perioperative sector.

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services, or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Eric Lenze, MD , reports that he is a consultant for Boehringer Ingelheim and Pritikin ICR. The content of his presentation has been reviewed to ensure that the information presented is balanced and evidence-based. He will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All relationships have been mitigated through review. 

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis Marino, MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, Tom Flis, LCPC, Stacey Garnett, RN, MSN, Stephanie M. Robinson, MSN, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC, Lisa E. Seldon, DNP, MSA, RN, NEA-BC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.