Staff

Andrew Francis, PhD, MD

Co-Moderator

Dr. Andrew Francis serves as director of this program. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine/Hershey Medical Center, where he is the director of Neuromodulation Services and Associate Director of Residency Training.

Dr. Francis received a PhD in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook, served as a postdoctoral research fellow at Cornell Medical School, obtained an MD from the University of Buffalo, and completed residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Francis is one of the co-developers of the Bush-Francis Catatonia Scale, published in 1996, which is generally recognized as the standard clinical tool to detect and quantify catatonic symptoms. He is also a recognized authority on Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome, ECT, and delirium. He is widely published in these areas and has presented at regional, national, and international medical conferences as well as lecturing at many major academic medical centers.

Charles Mormando, DO 

Co-Moderator

Dr. Charles Mormando is currently Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and serves as Medical Director of Admissions at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute. He is a Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist and the Associate Director of Neuromodulation at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute where he treats a diverse population of patients with Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). His research and clinical interests include catatonia and its varieties, melancholia, other syndromes responsive to ECT, and the nosological classification of mental disorders.