Gender	Female
E-mail	effie.mitsis@mssm.edu
Education and Training	Ph.D. , The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
	Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
	Internship, Yale University School of Medicine

Effie Mitsis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She received her doctorate in neuroscience and neuropsychology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and conducted her dissertation research at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Mitsis completed one year pre-doctoral and three-year postdoctoral fellowships in neuropsychology and neuroimaging at Yale University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven campus. She is a board member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Council for the Connecticut chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.  

At Mount Sinai, Dr. Mitsis conducts research in traumatic brain injury, aging and dementia within the Neuroscience Positron Emission Tomography (PET) laboratory and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Her area of focus is mild traumatic brain injury associated with blast exposure in combat veterans and in civilian head trauma. She has written grants that will address the cognitive and neurobiological consequences of traumatic brain injury in veterans and civilians, and is planning longitudinal studies to investigate the association between prior head injury and earlier onset of dementia, such as that associated with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Mitsis is currently funded to use PET imaging to investigate history of traumatic brain injury and depression as risk factors for earlier onset of Alzheimer's disease in individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Education and Training	Ph.D. , The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
	Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
	Internship, Yale University School of Medicine

Mitsis EM, Cosgrove KP, Staley JK, Frohlich E, van Dyck CH, Tamagnan GD, Estok KM, Seibyl JP, Bois F. Age-related decline in nicotinic receptor availability using [123I]5-IA-85380 SPECT. Neurobiology of Aging 2007;.

Cosgrove KP, Mitsis EM, Bois F, Perry E, Staley JK, Jatlow P, Tamagnan GD, Seibyl JP, van Dyck CH, Brenner E. [123I]5-IA-85380 SPECT Imaging of 2-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors: Sex Differences in Receptor Availability in Healthy Non-Smokers versus Smokers. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2007; 48: 1633-1640.

Mitsis EM, Cosgrove KP, Staley JK, Frohlich E, van Dyck CH, Tamagnan GD, Estok KM, Seibyl JP, Bois F. [123I]5-IA-85380 SPECT Imaging of 2-Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Availability in the Aging Human Brain. New York Academy of Sciences 2007; 1097: 168-170.

Staley JK, van Dyck CH, Weinzimmer D, Seibyl JP, Baldwin RM, Riccardi P, Mitsis EM, Brenner E. 123-I-5-IA-85380 SPECT measurement of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in human brain by the constant infusion paradigm: Feasibility and reproducibility. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 2005; 46: 1466-1472.

Kaufman P, Sano MC, Shungu DC, Jhung S, Engelstad K, De Vivo DC, Mitsis EM, Shanske S, Hirano M, DiMauro S, Mao X. Cerebral lactic acidosis correlates with neurological impairment in MELAS. Neurology 2004; 62: 1297-1302.

Cheung AM, Halperin JM, Mitsis EM. The relationship of behavioral inhibition to executive functions in young adults. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2003; 26: 393-404.

Mitsis EM, Newcorn JH, Halperin JM. Serotonin and aggression in children. Current Psychiatry Reports 2000;: 95-101.

Mitsis EM, McKay KE, Halperin JM, Newcorn JH, Schulz KP. Parent-teacher concordance for DSM-IV attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2000; 39: 308-313.

Mitsis EM, van Dyck CH. Neuroimaging in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. In: Research Progress in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. New York, Nova Science Publishers;.

Sano MC, Mitsis EM. Alzheimer's disease: Treatment and Management. In: Current Therapy in Neurologic Disease, 6th Edition. St. Louis, Mosby; pp308-312.