Dr. Maldonado’s research interest include: the management of delirium; the neuropsychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury; factitious disorder & Munchausen`s syndrome; cultural diversity in medical care; psychiatric complications of solid organ and bone marrow transplantation; conversion disorder; depression in the medically ill; neuropsychiatric consequences of medical illness and its treatment; application of hypnosis in psychiatry and medicine; and diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders.