Paul Kirwin, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, has been chosen to receive the 2017 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Educator of the Year Award.
The award recognizes extraordinary efforts, innovations, and accomplishments that have a direct impact on the quality of geriatric psychiatry education. It will be presented to Kirwin at the AAGP Annual Meeting in Dallas on March 24. The theme of the meeting is “Integrated Geriatric Mental Health Care Through Innovation.”
Kirwin directs the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship Program 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.
Headquartered in McLean, Va., the AAGP represents and serves its members and the field of geriatric psychiatry. The organization promotes the mental health and well-being of older adults through professional education, public advocacy, and support of career development for clinicians, educators, and researchers in geriatric psychiatry and mental health.
AAGP launched in 1978 as the population of older adults began to increase across the United States. The organization has nearly 2,000 geriatric psychiatrists and other health care professionals on its membership rolls.