Dr. Steven Cole
Elective Curriculum
Steven Cole, MD, MA (Sociology) is Professor of Psychiatry at Stony Brook University Medical Center and Head of the Division of Medical and Geriatric Psychiatry. At Stony Brook, Dr. Cole directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship and the inpatient Consultation-Liaison Service. He is also director of the mental health component of the Medical Monitoring Program for the World Trade Center First Responders and consultant to the Physician’s Assistants Program for training in psychiatry and addiction medicine. He practices in the Medical and Geriatric Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic a day and a half/week.
Trained at Harvard, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his work focuses bio-psycho-social care for optimal patient care, health and wellness promotion and chronic illness care (disease management). For work related to HRSA’s Health Disparities Collaboratives in 2002, he developed a motivational enhancement and health/wellness coaching tool, Brief Action Planning (B.A.P.) (formerly called UB-PAP), which was presented at the First and Second International Conferences on Motivational Interviewing (MI) in Interlaken Switzerland (June 2008) and Stockholm, Sweden (June, 2010), as well as the MINT (Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers) Forum in San Diego (2010) and the Institute for Psychiatric Services (New York, 2009).
Currently teaches in the following courses
Motivational Interviewing for Health and Wellness
