Charles Conway

Additional Titles & Roles

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• Professor of Radiology
• Director, Treatment Resistant Depression and Neurostimulation Clinic
• Director, Washington University Center for the Advancement of Research in Resistant Mood and Affective Disorders (CARRMA)
• Interventional Psychiatry Rotation Director

Education & Training

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• Residency: Duke University, Durham, NC, 1999
• M.D.: University of Missouri Columbia, 1995

Major Awards

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• Best Doctors in America, (Best Doctors, Inc.), 2006-2025, 2025
• Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2016
• Resident Faculty Teaching Award, Washington University, 2014
• Resident Mentor Award, Washington University, 2011
• NARSAD Sidney Baer Award, 2007
• Resident Faculty Teaching Award, St. Louis University, 2004, 2007

Areas of Clinical Interest

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mood disorders, treatment-resistant mood disorders, bipolar disorders

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Research Interests

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treatment-resistant depression (TRD) phenomenology, novel treatments for TRD, neuroimaging of mood disorders, bipolar disorders

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Recent Publications

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• Impact of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Suicidal Ideation in Markedly Treatment-Resistant Major Depression: A RECOVER Study Report

  Hristidis, V. C., De Leon, V., Van Der Vaart, A. D., Sackeim, H. A., Rush, A. J., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Allen, R. M., Sheline, Y., Nahas, Z., Dunner, D. L., Gott, B. M., Lee, Y. C., Gordon, C., Tran, Q., Shy, O., Quevedo, J., Riva-Posse, P., Zajecka, J. & Mickey, B. J. & 4 others, Duffy, W., Kriedt, C. L., Oquendo, M. A. & Conway, C., Jul 8 2026, In: The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 87, 3

• Assessing symptom severity in patients with markedly treatment-resistant depression: Insights from the RECOVER trial

  Rush, A. J., Sackeim, H. A., Lee, Y. C., Conway, C. R., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Quevedo, J., Alva, G. & Carmody, T., Jun 15 2026, In: Journal of affective disorders. 403, 121447.

• Rapid antidepressant potential of nitrous oxide: current state and major questions

  Zorumski, C. F., Cichon, J., Izumi, Y., Zeffiro, T., Mennerick, S., Nagele, P. & Conway, C. R., Jun 2026, In: Molecular Psychiatry. 31, 6, p. 3022-3032 11 p.

• The Use of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) in the Management of Patients with Difficult-to-Treat Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): An Expert Consensus Statement

  McAllister-Williams, R. H., Alva, G., Banov, M., Conway, C. R., Cusin, C., De Beer, J. C., Demyttenaere, K., Domany, Y., Domenech, P., Dougherty, D. D., Dunner, D. L., Feffer, K., George, M. S., Iosifescu, D. V., Kavakbasi, E., Kraus, C., Lehnhardt, F. G., Lesperance, P., McCall, W. V. & Murrough, J. W. & 13 others, Nahas, Z., Nemeroff, C. B., Quevedo, J., Reif-Leonhard, C., Riva-Posse, P., Rush, A. J., Schwartz, T. L., Stander, M. P., Williams, N. R., Zajecka, J., Aaronson, S. T., Baune, B. T. & Sackeim, H. A., 2026, In: Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 22, 554007.

• Durability of the benefit of vagus nerve stimulation in markedly treatment-resistant major depression: a RECOVER trial report

  Conway, C. R., Rush, A. J., Aaronson, S. T., Bunker, M. T., Gordon, C., George, M. S., Riva-Posse, P., Allen, R. M., Nahas, Z., Kriedt, C. L., Zajecka, J., Dunner, D. L., Quevedo, J., Sheline, Y., Duffy, W., Mickey, B. J., Stedman, M., Alva, G., Manu, L. & Tran, Q. & 12 others, Zorumski, C. F., Macaluso, M., Banov, M., Cusin, C., Bennett, J. I., Brown, H., Way, J., Shy, O., Lee, Y. C., McAllister-Williams, R. H., McIntyre, R. S. & Sackeim, H. A., Jan 1 2026, In: International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 29, 1, pyaf080.

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