Pierre Tariot

Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, United States of America

Pierre Tariot

Academic positions:
- Professor of Psychiatry (with unlimited tenure), Medicine, Neurology and of Aging and Developmental Biology
- Co-Director of the University Geriatric Neurology and Psychiatry Clinic
- Director of Psychiatry, Program in Neurobehavioral Therapeutics, Monroe Community Hospital
- Director of the University of Rochester component of the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
Dr. Tariot has investigated, and lectured extensively on, multiple aspects of diagnosis and therapy for dementia and Alzheimer's disease, recognition and management of behavioral disturbances in long-term care settings, and treatment of depression in the elderly.

Any other information:
Dr Tariot has earned several awards for his research, including the American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award for Neuroscience and an NIMH Geriatric Mental Health Academic Award. He is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

He has served as the Chair of the Behavioral Pathology Committee of the National Institute on Aging's Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Psychiatry > Alzheimer's Disease (since 16 November 2005)

Pierre Tariot is a Section Head for Alzheimer's Disease, part of the PSYCHIATRY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/psych/fac_staff/tariot_pierre.html