Eve R. Maremont, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Psychiatrist
Responsibilities
In July of 2008 I joined the Simms/Mann -- UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology to offer specialized care to patients who can benefit from expertise in the area psycho-oncology. This includes patients experiencing emotional difficulties or medication side effects such as fatigue, moodiness, sleep disturbance or concentration problems related to their chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries or underlying cancer. Any of these difficulties may suggest that someone could benefit from additional treatment such as antidepressant medications to help them optimize their wellness and obtain improved quality of life. I have a part-time appointment with the Center.
Professional Training
As an undergraduate, I received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Yale University. Following my graduation from Northwestern University School of Medicine in 2000, I completed an internship year in Internal Medicine at California-Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California before heading back to Boston for Harvard University’s combined adult psychiatry residency training program at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital. At graduation, I received the Mel Kayce Award for Excellence in Psychotherapy. In January, 2007, I became a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology—the entity that allows one to be “board certified” in a medical specialty. In May, 2008, I received additional board certification in the sub-specialty of Psychosomatic Medicine. Additional academic honors include graduating summa cum laude from Yale and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa (at Yale) and Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honors society for medical students.
Professional Experience
While I have sought additional elective work in oncology throughout my years of clinical training, it was during my residency at Mass General that I really started to build on my interest in psycho-oncology (the arena of caring for patients dealing with both cancer and psychological complications of their medical illness). This included particular case presentations and completing a paper (in-press) for the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry under the supervision of renowned psycho-oncologists, Donna Greenberg, MD and William Pirl, MD. Since joining the faculty of UCLA’s Department of Psychiatry, my main teaching responsibilities have been in the area of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (recently recognized as its own sub-specialty and renamed Psychosomatic Medicine), leading a team of residents, medical students, social workers and psychology interns in caring for patients throughout the UCLA Medical Center whose physicians have psychiatric concerns related to the patient’s medical or surgical illnesses.
Personal Interests and Perspectives
My professional journey was definitively set in motion by the loss of my father from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia in 1974. While in high school and college, however, my strong interest in writing took me initially in a different direction. I became a physician following an earlier career as a writer and executive in the film business. While some have regarded these fields as entirely unrelated, in truth, my earlier professional work has given me a deep-seated conviction that everyone experiences their lives as part of a very unique journey. To this end, I have read a number of memoirs that have been published over the past several decades detailing how different people have experienced serious illness. What I’ve taken away from this is as follows: there is no one way to react to any event in life and a cancer diagnosis is no exception. Much as two people with the same tumor type will likely have different cellular responses to treatment and different progression of their illness, those same two people will have very different reactions and find different meanings in their diagnosis and its treatment. Furthermore, if there is no single “normal” reaction to discovering that one has cancer, there is also no “abnormal” reaction. People will live with cancer just as they live without cancer—as individuals. My work is about trying to assist people to have improved quality of life at all stages of their illness.
Selected Professional Publications and Presentations
Maremont, ER. Introduction to Clinical Psychopharmacology: From Alprazolam to Zyprexa. (2007) Medical Student Core Clerkship Orientation Lecture. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. May 14, 2007.
Maremont, ER. Beyond the ABC’s: Axis II in the Consultation Setting. (2005) Presenter, Consultation Psychiatry Conference Series. UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital. February 23, 2005.
Maremont, ER. From Myths to Morbiditiy: Taking a Closer Look at Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndromes. (2004) Presenter, Senior Talk Symposium, Massachusetts General Hospital. June 2, 2004.
Maremont, ER. Psycho-Oncology Consultation: A Case-based Discussion. (2003) Presenter, Psychosomatic Conference, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Massachusetts General Hospital. July 31, 2003.
Maremont E., Pirl W., Fidias P. Medicine and Psychiatry Case Conference. New diagnosis of Stage III non-small cell lung cancer in a patient hospitalized for depression. Primary Care Companion of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (in press).
Maremont, ER. Irresistible Sleep: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches to Hypersomnia. (2002) Presenter, Psychosomatic Conference, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Massachusetts General Hospital. October 31, 2002.
Maremont, ER. The DT’s from A to Z: Differential Diagnosis and Acute Management of Delirium Tremens. (2002) Presenter, Psychosomatic Conference, Psychiatric Consultation Service, Massachusetts General Hospital. August, 2002.
Maremont, E., Pirl W, Fidias, P. When Cancer Strikes…On a Psychiatric Inpatient Unit: A Clinical Case and Discussion. (2001) Presenter, Grand Rounds of the Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital. December 6, 2001.
Vick, N and Maremont, E. The Metastatic Behavior of Glioblastoma Multiforme: Oxymoron or Clinical Reality? (1999) Presentation with Nicholas Vick, M.D. Department of Neurology Grand Rounds, Evanston Hospital. March 21, 1999.
Stuber, M and Maremont, E. Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome in Parents of Children Diagnosed with Brain Tumors. (1997) Research Advisor: Margaret L. Stuber, M.D. Departments of Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, UCLA Medical Center and Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital.