Having degrees from Harvard College, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, I chose to specialize in geriatric psychiatry / neuropsychiatry along with the epidemiology of old-age dementias. My pursuit of the latter, primarily in hopes of finding ways to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, has resulted in more than 300 research publications.
My training in geriatric psychiatry / neuropsychiatry was at the Institute of Psychiatry (London, UK, with Profs. F. Post and R. Levy) and the Johns Hopkins Hospital (with Prof. M. Folstein). I subsequently served as Director of the Divisions of Geriatric Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, and the University of Washington (Seattle). Following this subspecialty training I was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as having Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry.
For five years I was Professor and Chair of the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and most recently I served as Canada Research Chair in Prevention of Dementia at McGill University, where I am now Professor Emeritus.
Throughout my career I have always found time to see a limited number of (mostly older) psychiatric patients, and this has been a source of joy and inspiration.
I now maintain a limited clinical practice of general and geriatric psychiatry in Bozeman, MT, and the Coachella Valley in California.
General and Geriatric Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry | Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Licensed in Montana and California.