Shaune Demers, MD, is a geriatric and consultation liaison psychiatrist with expertise in diagnosing and managing cognitive disorders. She attends in the Memory and Brain Wellness Clinic, where she sees primarily middle aged and elder patients with concerns about their memory or thinking. Although most of her patients have Alzheimer's disease-type or vascular dementia, she has experience in diagnosing and managing less common types of neurodegenerative disease as well, for example frontotemporal dementia, dementia with Lewy Bodies, and Parkinson's disease dementia. She has a particular interest in palliative medicine and end of life issues. *New patients are routinely seen with residents or fellows.
Dr. Demers is also the medical director of the psychiatry consultation service at Harborview Medical Center, which is where she spends most of her clinical time. That service is very busy with consultations throughout the hospital, and she sees patients with serious medical and surgical illnesses who require psychiatric assessment and care.
After earning bachelor's degrees in both classics and comparative literature, Dr. Demers earned her medical degree at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed residency training in psychiatry there. She then did fellowships in both geriatric psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine (consultation psychiatry) at UW. She is board certified in both psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. In all of her clinic work, she is proud to be part of teams of very talented professionals, which include other attending psychiatrists, neurologists, geriatric internists, nurse practitioners, neuropsychologists, social workers, nurses, and addiction specialists. She enjoys training fellows, psychiatry, psychology, and neurology residents, and medical students.
Research Interests
Geriatric psychiatry, Cognitive disorders, Neurodegenerative diseases, Physician training
