Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD, a geriatric psychiatrist and 1973 graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, will be named a Grand Champion at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s (UPMC) 2015 Celebration Senior Champions dinner October 21.
The UPMC Senior Services Grand Champion award is the highest honor given to people for their work to improve the lives of senior citizens in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.
Reynolds is the UPMC’s Endowed Professor in Geriatric Psychiatry, and is internationally known for his work preventing geriatric depression in older adults. His research has focused on mood, grief, and sleep disorders of later life.
He has worked as a Professor of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Director of the Aging Institute of UPMC and University of Pittsburgh, and Director of the John A. Hartford Center of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry.
He has published more than 680 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he cofounded the Global Consortium on Depression Prevention, a network of investigators in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
He has traveled extensively, and has been a visiting professor in the Netherlands, Brazil, India, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.
His work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, the American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Archives of General Psychiatry. He will be Editor-in Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry in 2016.
Reynolds and his wife, Ellen Detlefsen, have two children and two grandchildren.
The event to honor Reynolds will be held at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh.