Who we are

Stephan Taylor, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Co-Director

Dr. Taylor is the co-program director of the University of Michigan Health System’s Psychiatric Neuromodulation Program. His clinicial interests include psychosis and borderline personality disorder. He is also the principal investigator and coinvestigator in several research studies involving schizophrenia, functional neuroimaging, and emotion.

Parag Patil, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery
Co-Director, Neurosurgeon

Dr. Patil is the co-director of the psychiatric neuromodulation program at the University of Michigan Health System. Areas of clinical interest include Brain and Spinal Tumors, Movement Disorder Surgery, and Pain Neurosurgery. Areas of research interest include Mechanisms of Deep Brain Stimulation, and Clinical Outcomes in Functional Neurosurgery. He is placing the vagus nerve stimulator devices in our patients with treatment-resistant depression.

Daniel Maixner, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Clinical Director

Dr. Maixner is the program director for University of Michigan Health System’s ECT Program, co-director of the inpatient psychiatric program, and clinical director for the psychiatric neuromodulation clinic. He mentors medical students, social work students, residents, visiting MDs in the areas of depression, ECT, TMS, VNS, DBS, psyhopharmacology. He serves on the American Psychiatric Association's advisory committee monitoring neuromodulation techniques for depression.

Michele Haselhuhn, MS, APRN, BC
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Outpatient Psychiatry
Clinic Coordinator

Michele is the Clinical Coordinator of the Psychiatric Neuromodulation Program at the University of Michigan Health System. With emerging evidence of medical co-morbidities intertwining with mental health issues, Michele’s strong emergency and critical care background are wonderful assets to the Depression Center. She provides medication management and individual psychotherapy for patients with mood disorders.

Melvin McInnis, M.D.
Thomas B and Nancy Upjohn Woodworth Professor of Bipolar Disorder and Depression, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Depression Section

Dr. McInnis is the director of the Depression Section in Outpatient Psychiatry. His clinical interests include adult and adolescent mood disorders. His research interests include longitudinal outcomes in bipolar I and bipolar II patients, genes and subtypes in bipolar I disorder, and screening for adolescents at risk in familial bipolar disorder.

Juan Lopez, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Assistant Research Scientist, Mental Health Research Institute

Dr. Lopez’s areas of interest include Neuroendocrinology of affective disorders

Brian Mickey, M.D., Ph.D.
House officer IV, Department of Psychiatry, Assistant Research Scientist, Mental Health Research Institute

Dr. Mickey’s research is focused on biological bases of depression, clinical and neurochemical heterogeneity among patients with major depression, neuroimaging, and neurochemical bases of response (or non-response) to antidepressant medication.

Mona Goldman, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Research Coordinator

Current research activities focus on evaluating and improving the effectiveness of neuromodulation treatments for depression. She is a co-investigator on a study to identify predictors of response, remission, and relapse in depressed patients treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She also actively participated in a study reviewing effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treating depression in children.

Ghaziuddin, Neera, M.D.
Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist

Dr. Ghaziuddin is a nationally recognized child and adolescent psychiatrist with expertise in the treatment of depression and psychosis. She has interest in treatment refractory depression in youth and is involved with studies identifying biological markers and novel treatment strategies including neuromodulation techniques.