Elvira Foglia Downs, M.D.

Specialty
Child Psychiatry/General Psychiatry

Program
(Hamilton ACC)

Education

Fellowship – Child Psychiatry Fellowship at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 1977-1980
Residency – Assistant Psychiatrist at the Payne Whitney Clinic of Cornell-New York Hospital Medical Center, 1976-1977
Internship – Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, Internal Medicine, 1975 – 1976
Medical School – Cornell University Medical College, MD, 1975
Fordham University, B.S. – Biological Sciences; Summa cum laude, 1971, Phi Beta Kappa

Licensure and Certification

State Licenses –New York, Florida, New Jersey, New Hampshire - inactive
Certification – Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, November 2005
                       American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Psychiatry, November 1989

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, February 1981 – June 1996

Other Professional Positions

Medical Director and full-time Psychiatrist/Child Psychiatrist, Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc.
Active Staff Psychiatrist in Department of Psychiatry, concord Hospital, Concord, NH
Private Practice of Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry in New London, NH

Memberships, Office and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies

American Psychiatric Association, General Member
New Jersey Psychiatric Society
New Jersey Medical Society

Teaching Experience

Supervision of Psychiatric Residents and Child Fellows in the Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center
Inservice Training sessions, case consultations and supervision to various mental health clinicians at Riverbend Community Mental Health, Inc

Research Interests

Research Fellowship Grant – Cornell University Medical College – Topic: "The Psycholsocial Determinants of Pregnancy"

Co-investigator for Eli Lilly Protocol FIJ-MC-HMFN "An open label study of tolerability, safety, and pharmacokinetics of duloxdetine in the treatment of children and adolescents with major depressive disorder."