Jay D. Fawver, MD, is the medical director at Parkview Mind-Body Medicine in Fort Wayne, IN. At Mind-Body Medicine, he orchestrates the treatment of over 8000 current patients in a shared pharmacological treatment model with 10 nurse practitioners assisted by nurses and medical assistants by utilizing customized electronic medical records to coordinate consistent clinical care with personalized and precision treatment strategies. His nurse practitioners provide integrated treatment by having access to direct consultation with Dr Fawver and the other nurse practitioners while utilizing treatment algorithms for various conditions and genetic profiles. Patients are monitored for treatment response and recovery utilizing patient-rated outcome metrics for mood, anxiety, cognition, insomnia, daily functioning, and side effects.
Since March 2020, Mind-Body Medicine has initiated telehealth for a majority of outpatients utilizing the new Epic Video Client internet platform. Utilizing this platform from their smartphones, tablets, or laptops, patients are prompted to complete outcome questionnaires on their MyChart portals 1 to 2 days prior to each appointment. These outcome metrics include the PHQ-9, GAD-7, Perceived Deficits Questionnaire (PDQ-20), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS), and Patient Rated Inventory of Side Effects (PRISE), guiding treatment decisions and enhancing the efficiency of the outpatient video visit. Dr Fawver is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine and is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has been named a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Purdue University School of Pharmacy, Dr Fawver was a pharmacist prior to his medical training. He has been an advisor to several pharmaceutical companies for over 30 years, participating as a principal investigator and assisting in the development of medication studies and outcomes of disease states such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and fibromyalgia with more recent work involving genetic correlations with medication treatment outcomes.
Since October 2019, Dr Fawver has been a certified Epic Physician Builder where he designs computer programs for charting in the electronic medical records based upon best practice guidelines.
Since 1997, he has been the host and producer of the Public Broadcasting System’s Matters of the Mind with Dr Jay Fawver, a weekly 30-minute live call-in television program addressing mental health topics.
Dr Fawver was paid as a consultant for Takeda and Lundbeck.