The University of Connecticut (UConn) is one of America’s top 20 public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. It is home to more than 31,000 students, 1,300 faculty, 230,000 proud alumni, and a handsome husky named Jonathan.

The University has fourteen schools and colleges: Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business, Dental Medicine, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work. Students can choose from eight undergraduate bachelor's degrees with 102 possible majors, as well as seventeen graduate/doctoral degrees and five professional degree programs (MD, JD, etc.).

UConn's main campus in Storrs is admitting the highest-achieving freshmen in University history. Student diversity continues to increase, as does the number of honors students, valedictorians and salutatorians who consistently make UConn their top choice. It's a great time to be a Husky!

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Association of Women Psychiatrists for support of women psychiatrists seeking leadership roles and other professional opportunities.

Martin Symonds Man of Good Conscience Award - 2018

Awarded by the American College of Psychiatrists.

Geriatric Psychiatry Research Award

Awarded by the Duke University School of Medicine.

Annual Clinically Based Research Mentoring Award

Functional connectivity predictors of acute depression treatment outcome.

Perspectives on the Management of Vascular Depression

Can Addressing Personality Change Enhance Cognitive Functioning and Delay Development of Mild Cognitive Impairment?

Presence of neuroticism and antidepressant remission rates in late-life depression: results from the Neurobiology of Late-Life Depression (NBOLD) study.

Late-Life Depression and the Prodromes of Dementia

Neuroticism Traits Selectively Impact Long Term Illness Course and Cognitive Decline in Late-Life Depression

Negative Affectivity, Aging, and Depression: Results From the Neurobiology of Late-Life Depression (NBOLD) Study.

Dr. Steffens became chair of UConn Psychiatry in July, 2012, after more than 20 years at Duke University School of Medicine, where he had served as a professor of psychiatry, vice chair for education and Division Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Steffens is the past president of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and is the co-editor of the leading textbook in geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Steffens also has considerable experience in medical education and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, resident  physicians, and junior faculty. A graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center School of Medicine, Dr. Steffens moved to Duke in 1988, where he completed his internship and residency in psychiatry. Since joining the Duke faculty and now at UConn Health, Dr. Steffens' career has focused on mood and cognitive disorders in older adults.

Dr. Steffens received a Master’s of Health Science in Clinical Research from Duke in 2000. He has held an NIMH-supported Mid-Career Development Award, and his major area of research focuses on links between depression in later life and development of cognitive decline and dementia.  Dr. Steffens has been continuously supported by NIMH/NIH for over twenty years.  At UConn, Dr. Steffens has continued his research pursuits with a new NIMH-supported study, known as NBOLD, that examines the relationship between stress and depression in older adults.  In addition, Dr. Steffens' research and mentorship activity at UConn Health have been supported by a generous gift from the Leo and Anne Albert Trust.  With new faculty hires in psychiatry and neuropsychology, Dr. Steffens has developed a clinical geriatric mental health service that focuses on assessment and treatment of anxiety, depression and cognitive disorders in the elderly.

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