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Faculty
- John
G. Looney, MD
Dr. Looney strives to provide
the most sophisticated solutions to his patients problems utilizing the
most current knowledge and technology available at a major academic
center. He strives to provide care within a confidential and
caring relationship
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Duke University Medical
Center
Trent Street
Suite 3919 (Red Zone) Duke South Clinic
Box 3313
Durham, NC 27710
919-684-6457, 684-5405
919-684-2928 (Fax)
Durham Community Guidance
Clinic
Trent and Elba Streets
Durham, NC 27710
919-286-4456
919-286-6069 (Fax)
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Treatment:
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Assessment and treatment of
emotional disorders in children, adolescents and their families.
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Family
therapy and guidance of parents.
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Evaluation and treatment of
substance abuse in adolescents and young adults.
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Psychotherapy and consultation
to college students.
Consultation:
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Organizational
consultation with regard to building clinical systems.
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Consultation to secondary
schools and colleges regarding methods of reducing excessive use of alcohol and other drugs and managing
student mental health issues
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Limited
consultation to legal professionals.
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Making
an Appointment
Dr. Looney’s office numbers are (919)
684-6457 and 684-5405. Call
for his availability
for seeing a new patient or providing consultation.
The first visit at Duke can sometimes be frustrating because Duke
is such a big place. Dr.
Looney has provided maps which should direct you right to his office.
Nevertheless, at the time of the first appointment it is very
important to allow adequate time to find the registration area. Please allow extra time for the possibility of getting lost.
If you do get lost, there are patient representatives throughout
Duke Clinic. You also need to
allow time to complete paperwork at the Registration Desk prior to the
first visit.
For
the Duke South Clinic, each
time you come you will use the parking deck on Trent Drive. For your
first visit, Dr. Looney suggests you use the Valet Parking Service to make
things easier. Valet parking is available in the circular drive at
the Duke South Clinic entrance.
For
the Community Guidance Clinic, there is an adjacent small private lot.
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Maps
to Dr. Looney’s office 
Dr. Looney has provided two sets of maps to get you from your home to his
registration desk and his office in Duke South Clinic. First, these are directions from
your home to the Duke South Clinic on Dr. Looney's website with the
American Psychiatric Association: www.jlooney.yourmd.com.
Second, there are directions inside Duke South Clinic from the entry to
his registration desk, and then his office, located on this website at:Directions
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Billing and Insurance
Dr. Looney can provide you with a list
of fees for different services. He
will also discuss your insurance. Often
your insurance company will ask you to be responsible for part of the fee. This part is called the co-payment. Often co-payments for mental health visits are different than
co-payments for standard medical visits.
Dr. Looney asks that you follow Duke Medical Center’s policy to
pay the co-payment at the time of registration and at each visit.
Dr. Looney can make a patient representative available to you to
help with problems with insurance. You
will be billed for Dr. Looney’s services by the Private Diagnostic
Clinic (PDC). This
organization is the group practice of faculty at Duke.
Your billing from the Private Diagnostic Clinic will show the total
amount of the bill, how much you have paid in co-payment and how much the
insurance has paid. If you have questions about your bill, please discuss them
with Dr. Looney.
Many patients prefer to make direct
financial arrangements for Dr. Looney’s services thus avoiding an
insurance company having access to any information about them.
If you wish to use this option Dr. Looney can explain its pros and
cons when you see him.
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Changing
an Appointment / Missed Appointments 
Dr. Looney will ask you to abide by
Duke Medical Center’s changing of appointment and cancellation policy. Your time with Dr. Looney is reserved only for you. Unlike some
other types of medical practices, Dr. Looney does not over-book.
If you cancel an appointment, Dr. Looney’s ability to substitute
another patient on short notice is very limited.
For this reason he asks that you be aware of the cancellation
policy. You may cancel or
request a change of appointment without incurring any fee by telephoning
Dr. Looney’s office (684-6457 or 684-5405) two business days prior to
that appointment. Otherwise, the Private Diagnostic Clinic will charge you
for a missed visit. The fees
for a missed visit are $56.00 for a missed 20-30 minute visit and $112.00
for a missed 45 minute visit. These
charges are not covered by insurance.
Again, what about
changing an appointment with adequate prior notification to Dr.
Looney? Dr. Looney understands that important issues come up in the
lives of his patients that require schedule changes and he will try to
make these changes. There will, of course be no charge for changes
requested with adequate notice. Nevertheless, Dr. Looney asks
that patients try their best to avoid rescheduling. He asks that
patients understand that it could be as long as several months before the
appointment can be rescheduled. Time slots to see patients are
longer in psychiatry, and thus it is harder to move patient
appointments. Rescheduling can also cause prescribed medications to
run out.
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Articles about
Frequently Asked Questions 
Please
access Dr. Looney’s website within the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Looney has made available a number of articles about different psychiatric problems.
www.jlooney.yourmd.com
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Faculty
Profile
Dr. Looney is a tenured Professor of Psychiatry at Duke
University. He was recruited to Duke in 1986 from Timberlawn Hospital and
The University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School. At Timberlawn
Hospital he specialized in intensive reconstructive treatment of severely
troubled children and adolescents. These patients had experienced multiple
failures of prior treatment. Through the American Psychiatric Association,
he published about treatment methods for these children and adolescents.
He described methods of treating children and
adolescents who have suffered serious and longstanding problems. His
edited book, Chronic Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents
details this treatment focus.
He was a Research Associate at the Timberlawn
Psychiatric Foundation where he focused on research methods of
understanding interactions within families associated with healthy,
versus troubled, development of children. He assessed family processes in
families of different ethnic groups, and some of this work is detailed in
the book The Long Struggle co-authored with Dr. Jerry M. Lewis.
At Duke Dr. Looney was recruited as Director of the
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He was charged with
reorganizing the Division, with an emphasis on developing a full continuum
of psychiatric services as well as developing programs to treat young
people with drug and alcohol problems. He was also charged with increasing
the amount of research in child and adolescent psychiatry through the
recruitment of both established researchers and younger ones with promise.
He provided the supportive environment necessary for these researchers to
be productive. Research has increased from zero external funding in 1986
to the current aggregate level of $77,042,898.
In recent years Dr. Looney has organized a large
psychiatric system in East Tennessee through contract between that
Tennessee institution and Duke. Dr. Looney is trained in Business
Administration and has used this training in this development project. The
Tennessee institution, on its first review, won the Tennessee Quality
Commitment Award (part of the Tennessee Quality Award, a system similar to
the Malcolm Baldridge national system). The medical staff created an Award
of Special Recognition for Dr. Looney upon completion of this project.
Dr. Looney has also developed an innovative approach to
dealing with the problem of binge drinking by college students. He leads
teams of consultants to campuses to design methods of institutional
cultural shift from laissez faire administration of student affairs to
more active involvement in student life by college and university faculty
and administrators. Dr. Looney's work with colleges and universities is
supported by a permanent endowment from the Cotswold Foundation of
Philadelphia, PA.
Dr. Looney is Board Certified in an unusually broad
array of skills and knowledge. He uses these varied skills in forensic
consultations, the above-mentioned activities, and in the treatment of
private patients as a Partner in the Private Diagnostic Clinic of Duke
Medical Center.
Dr. and Mrs. Looney have raised three sons who have
excelled in academics and athletics in college, two of whom are pursuing
advanced education and training in medicine. One manages the Looney
family's farming enterprises..
Dr. Looney’s Website is:
www.jlooney.yourmd.com
Dr. Looney’s e-mail address is:
john.looney@duke.edu
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