Rajesh Tampi, MBBS, DFAPA, MS, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, has been elected the next President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP).
Tampi will first serve as President-Elect after the association’s annual meeting in March. The position will then automatically transition to President in March 2019, and then to Immediate Past President in 2020.
During his leadership term, Tampi plans to promote the growth of the membership base of the association and maintain its status as the premier national/international organization for geriatric psychiatry.
Additionally, he plans to strengthen the relationships between AAGP and other psychiatric subspecialty and medical specialty organizations to improve the healthcare of older adults in the United States.
In addition to his appointment at Yale, Tampi is Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Vice Chairman for Education and Faculty Development, Residency Program Director, and the Chief of Geriatric Psychiatry at MetroHealth in Cleveland. He is also the current Secretary and Treasurer of the AAGP.
He is a graduate of the University of Kerala in Kerala, India, and trained in psychiatry at the University of Leeds in England and at the University of Vermont. He completed his Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine, and has received three Outstanding Teaching Attending Awards and the Chairman’s Award for outstanding teaching, research, and clinical work from the Yale Department of Psychiatry.
He was Program Chair for the 2017 AAGP Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. He has over 100 publications on various topics in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry, and is a senior editor of four books in psychiatry. He serves as the associate editor for Drugs in Context (Psychiatry) and is on the editorial board of five peer-reviewed national and international journals in psychiatry, including the Clinical Interventions in Aging and the Annals of Clinical Psychiatry.
His clinical and research interests are the management of psychiatric disorders in late life, neurodegenerative disorders, ethical and legal issues in geriatric psychiatry, and integrated geriatric psychiatric care.