Section: Research

Philip Candilis, M.D.

Academic Role: Associate Professor

Faculty Appointment(s) In:
   Center for Mental Health Services Research
   Psychiatry

Dr. Candilis is a forensic psychiatrist and medical ethicist who studies informed consent and research oversight. Federally funded projects have included assessments of the research decision-making of medically ill, mentally ill, and non-ill research participants, and enhanced consent procedures for non-ill persons and persons diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Dr. Candilis has authored the text Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness (with Robert Weinstock and Richard Martinez), and developed ethics curricula with colleagues at the American Psychiatric Association and at St. Louis University. He is currently working with Charles Lidz on an “Observational, descriptive study of IRB practices,” an NIH R01 award studying IRB decision-making.

Other research interests include: the risk-benefit decisions of research participants, the effects of depression on decision making, and the distinction of language dysfluency from psychosis in deaf persons. Dr. Candilis completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital, and completed fellowships in ethics (Harvard) and forensic psychiatry (UMass). He has served as an attending psychiatrist in the MA Dept. of Mental Health, and consulted widely on matters of clinical and research ethics. He is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Curriculum Vitae 

Office: WSH 8C06
Phone: 508-856-1473
E-mail: Philip.Candilis@umassmed.edu
Keywords: Behavioral Medicine, IRBs, Forensic Mental Health Issues, Informed Consent, Research Ethics

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