Since our Pre-Aging event is less than a week away, we will be introducing the 4 panelist we are luckily to have for our panel on April 27th!
Who is Dr. Rabins?
Peter V. Rabins has been a member of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine since 1978 and will be joining the Erickson School in 2015. He founded the Geriatric Psychiatry program at Johns Hopkins and is the emeritus Richman Family Professor of Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders. Dr. Rabins has spent his career studying psychiatric disorders in the elderly. He was the first to demonstrate elevated mortality in persons with delirium and among the first to identify high rates of neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with dementia. He established a program, PATCH, that provided psychiatric care to elderly residents of Baltimore City Public Housing in 1985 and led a study demonstrating that this program was able to decrease rates of psychiatric disorder In residents of these buildings. He is the author or editor of more than 280 peer-reviewed articles and 8 books, including The 36-Hour Day, a Family Guide for People who have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias and Memory Loss.
What questions do you have for Dr. Rabins? Leave in comments below!
Please join us April 27th from 12-2pm in the Engineering Atrium. More info here!
