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Elizabeth R. Goy, PhD
 Elizabeth R. Goy, PhD
Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Portland, OR
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Elizabeth R. Goy, PhD, graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. Her Master's and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology were awarded by Northern Illinois University in 1999. She joined the Portland, Oregon VAMC in 1998 as an Intern in Clinical Psychology, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at PVAMC in Geropsychology. She has been employed continuously at PVAMC since the completion of her training. She is an assistant professor in the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and directs the Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palliative Care at PVAMC.
Dr. Goy's research focuses on improving care for neurological disorders at the end of life, describing unmet needs and identifying interventions to improve care for the end-of-life trajectory of Parkinson Disease (PD). She was awarded an OHSU Medical Research Foundation grant supporting early pilot work on this topic with a survey of bereaved caregivers of decedent PD patients that described symptoms, goals of care, clinical needs, services received, and caregiver satisfaction with and preparation for the role of caregiving at the end of life with PD. Dissemination of the pilot results is now underway with the initiation of this career development award. A description of symptoms and psychosocial settings experienced by people who died with PD is published in the August 2007 issue of Neurology.
The career development award will allow her to expand this work to use of the VISN-20 Data Warehouse database and Medicare data in an upcoming study to identify clinical predictors of the last 6 months of life with PD, in order to improve access to hospice care for PD patients. Her goal is to develop a prospective study of dying with PD that will inform health care providers about the special needs of this population.. She has also created a specialty clinic in Mental Health at PVAMC serving patients with PD and their family caregivers for: evaluation and treatment of depression, apathy, and caregiver strain; coping with prognosis; and cognitive/mood screening for deep brain stimulation candidates.
Dr. Goy's mentors are Linda Ganzini, MD, MPH, Director of the Columbia Center for the Study of Chronic, Comorbid Mental and Physical Disorders (HSR&D REAP), and John Nutt, MD, a neurologist internationally recognized for his research on PD and Director of the VA Parkinson's Disease Research and Education Clinical Center.
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