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News Release

February 7, 2014

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
Email: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Geriatric Psychiatrist Joins UConn Health Center

Dr. Kristina Zdanys, a geriatric psychiatrist, is now seeing patients at the UConn Health Center.

Zdanys specializes in later-life mental health problems, including cognitive and mood disorders in the context of aging-related psychosocial changes.

She joins UConn from the Yale University School of Medicine, where she was a geriatric psychiatry fellow. She residency trained in psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine after earning her medical degree at Yale. She also has a Bachelor of Arts in cognitive science from Yale.

More information about the UConn Health Center’s Department of Psychiatry is available at http://psychiatry.uchc.edu. Call 860-679-6700 to schedule an appointment in the adult outpatient clinic.

High-resolution photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/zdanys_kristina.jpg
Caption: Dr. Kristina Zdanys is now seeing geriatric psychiatry patients at the UConn Health Center.

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