Updated on 20 February 2013
Dr Halaris proposed that psychiatrists and cardiologists work together in a multidisciplinary psychocardiology subspecialty, which would raise awareness among physicians and the public. It would forge closer working relationships between psychiatrists and cardiologists and would formalize multidisciplinary teams with the requisite training and expertise to enable early detection of cardiovascular disease risk in psychiatric patients and psychiatric problems in heart disease patients.
It would also provide continuing education to physicians in the safe and correct use of medications in cardiac patients who have psychiatric disorders.
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