The American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) has presented its 2017 Educator of the Year Award to Paul Kirwin, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry.
Kirwin accepted the award March 24 at the AAGP Annual Meeting in Dallas.
The award honors an AAGP member who has demonstrated excellence in the field of geriatric psychiatry education. It is intended to recognize extraordinary efforts, innovations, and accomplishments that have a direct impact on the quality of geriatric psychiatry education.
Kirwin directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale, and has actively mentored geriatric psychiatrist trainees during his career.
He was president of the AAGP for a one-year term in 2012-13. He is a past member of the organization’s Board of Directors, and is the former chair of AAGP’s Teaching and Training Committee.
He joined AAGP in 1996 when he was a Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow.
AAGP is a national association that represents and serves its members and the field of geriatric psychiatry.