by YokoCo | Feb 18, 2023 | News & Announcements
AAGP Congratulates AAGP Member, Dr. Maria D. Llorente, VHA Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health for Patient Care Services, for the 2023 John D. Chase Award for Executive Excellence in Health Care Veterans Affairs awarded Dr. Maria Llorente the distinguished...
by YokoCo | Feb 16, 2023 | News & Announcements
Join AAGP Annual Meeting in New Orleans! Registration is closing soon! We are excited to host 2023 Panel Plenary Speakers as they discuss finding the joy in your career path on March 5 at 11:30 AM. Visit: Annual Meeting - American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry...
by YokoCo | Feb 10, 2023 | News & Announcements
The Editor, the editorial board of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (AJGP), the managing editorial team at Stellarmed, and the publisher at Elsevier are pleased to announce the appointment of 13 new associate members of the AJGP editorial board. The names...
by YokoCo | Feb 9, 2023 | News & Announcements
AAGP is excited to announce the 2023 Plenary Speaker, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad! Register today to attend this exciting session on Saturday March 4, at 11:15 AM, and more.
by YokoCo | Feb 1, 2023 | News & Announcements
Is Anxiety in Late Life an Uncharted Territory? —Questioning the USPSTF Draft Recommendation Statement for Anxiety Screening in Older Adult by Dr. Carmen Andreescu, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dr....
by YokoCo | Nov 11, 2022 | News & Announcements
Rajesh R. Tampi, MD, has been selected to receive the 2021 Jack Weinberg Award for Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and APA Foundation. The award honors a psychiatrist who, over the course of his or her career, has demonstrated...
by YokoCo | Nov 11, 2022 | News & Announcements
The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) launched its new AGS Cognitive Screening Toolkit on the iGeriatrics app today, introducing an easy-to-access resource that can help clinicians select the appropriate free, open-access cognitive screening test among those...
by YokoCo | Nov 11, 2022 | News & Announcements
On February 6, AAGP released an official statement on President Trump’s executive order. “…[this] executive order puts further strain on the physician workforce in areas of dire need,” said AAGP President Daniel D. Sewell, MD. To read the entire statement, click...
by YokoCo | Sep 21, 2021 | News & Announcements
AAGP was recently informed of the WHO's ICD-11 proposal to transfer all dementia diagnoses from the Mental or Behavioral Health Disorder section to the Nervous System section. Click here to view AAGP's direct response.
by YokoCo | Sep 21, 2021 | News & Announcements
In her book The Long Goodbye (Knopf, 2004), author Patti Davis, daughter of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, reflects on her father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, describing it as a “thief that steals a human being like nothing else can. The only victory...
