Pierre Tariot

BIOGRAPHY

Pierre Tariot

Academic positions:
- Professor of Psychiatry (with unlimited tenure), Medicine, Neurology and of Aging and Developmental Biology
- Co-Director of the University Geriatric Neurology and Psychiatry Clinic
- Director of Psychiatry, Program in Neurobehavioral Therapeutics, Monroe Community Hospital
- Director of the University of Rochester component of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Tariot has investigated, and lectured extensively on, multiple aspects of diagnosis and therapy for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, recognition and management of behavioral disturbances in long-term care settings, and treatment of depression in the elderly.

Any other information:
Dr Tariot has earned several awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award for Neuroscience and an NIMH Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

He has served as the Chair of the Behavioral Pathology Committee of the National Institute on Aging's Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease.

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