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BIOGRAPHY
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Pierre N. Tariot, MD
Research Professor of Psychiatry (pending) University of Arizona College of Medicine Banner Alzheimer’s Institute Phoenix, Arizona |
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Pierre N. Tariot, MD, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College in Masssachusetts who attended the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in New York. He completed residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison, and is board certified in both specialties. He served as a Medical Staff Fellow and then Senior Staff Fellow at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Mental Health. From 1986 through 2005, he was at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he was Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, Neurology, and Aging and Developmental Biology. He served as Co-Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, Director of Psychiatry at Monroe Community Hospital, and Director of the University of Rochester component of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study, funded by the National Institute on Aging. Since 2006, he has served as Associate Director of the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, and Director of the Institute’s Memory Disorders Center. He has a pending appointment as Research Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 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. He has authored or coauthored over 220 papers on these topics. He 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. He has earned several awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award for Neuroscience, an NIMH Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award, and fellowship in the Gerontological Society of America. Dr Tariot’s research affiliations include the National Institute of Mental Health, the New York State Department of Health, the Arizona Department of Health Services, the National Institute on Aging, the Institute for Mental Health Research, and the Alzheimer’s Association. |
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