Faculty
Seven of our faculty members have added qualifications in geriatric psychiatry. Faculty members in geriatric psychiatry have been recognized for their outstanding educational contributions. In recent years, geriatric psychiatry faculty members have received five outstanding teaching awards from the Yale Psychiatry Residents Association.
| Paul Kirwin, MD, Program Director | Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
| Michelle Conroy, MD, Associate Program Director | Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Douglas Brandt, MD | Medical Director, MedOptions
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Juan Carlos Cleves-Bayon, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Saint Raphael Campus
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| Maddalena DeRosa, MD | Attending Physician, Palliative Care Service
VA Connecticut Health Care System |
| Barbara Duncan, MSN | Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical Nurse Specialist, VA Connecticut Health Care System
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Margaret Drickamer, MD | Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship
Professor of Medicine and Associate Professor of Nursing |
| Carl Edelen, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, VA Connecticut Health Care System
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Joseph Fickes, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, The Jewish Home for the Elderly
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Sean Jeffery, PharmD | Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy Practice
University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy |
| Javier Lopez, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, Masonicare
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Karl-Otto Liebmann, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, Harbor Health Services
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Martha MacAvoy, PhD | Research Associate in Psychiatry
Alzheimer’s Disease Research Unit |
| Marc Nespoli, MD, MPH | Attending Psychiatrist, VA Connecticut Health Care System
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Robert Ostroff, MD | Attending Psychiatrist and Director of ECT, Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Diana Richardson, MD | Attending Neurologist, VA Connecticut Health Care System
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| Alicia Romeo, MD | Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Tracey Shamas, APRN | Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care Service
VA Connecticut Health Care System |
| Bart Sloan, MD | Attending Psychiatrist, Bridgeport Manor Nursing Home |
| Rajesh Tampi, MD, MS | Director of Behavioral Health, Masonicare
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Louis Trevisan, MD | Associate Chief of Psychiatry, VA Connecticut Health Care System
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry |
| Christopher van Dyck, MD | Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, and Neurobiology
Director, Alzheimer's Disease Research Unit |
| Pradeep Varma, MD | Director of MR Research
Assistant Professor of Diagnostic Radiology |
| Ilse Wiechers, MD, MPP | Robert Wood Johnson Fellow |
| Kirsten Wilkins, MD | Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Yale Psychiatry Clerkship |

