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BIOGRAPHY   Dilip V. Jeste, MD Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences Chief, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine VA San Diego Healthcare System San Diego, California Dilip V. Jeste, MD, is the Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, and Chief of the Geriatric Psychiatry Division, University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine and VA San Diego Healthcare System. He is also Director of the Advanced Center for Intervention and Services Research at UCSD funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which is the only such center specifically funded by the NIMH to focus on psychosis in late life. Dr Jeste started the geriatric psychiatry program at UCSD. He is the Principal Investigator on several research and training grants (including the Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, a national research training program) from federal and nonfederal sources. Dr Jeste has published six books and over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist with specific research interest in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in late life, movement disorders, dementia, and antipsychotics. Dr Jeste is the past President of the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and is the Founding President of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology. Dr Jeste is Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and has also served on the editorial boards of several journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry. He has been listed in The Best Doctors in America and has won several awards including the A.E. Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Award in Clinical Sciences from the Society of Biological Psychiatry; MERIT Award from the NIMH; Commendation for Dedicated Service from the American Legion, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission, California; Senior Investigator Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry; C. Charles Burlingame Award from the Institute of Living, Hartford; Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture Award as well as the Jack Weinberg Memorial Award in Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association; and Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD). He is in the ISI list of the “world's most cited authors”-- comprising less than one half of 1 percent of all publishing researchers of the last 2 decades.