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James Ellison, M.D., MPH
The Swank Foundation Endowed Chair
Expertise & Research Interests
- Psychopharmacology
- Geriatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
- Cognitive impairment and dementia
Education
- MD, University of California School of Medicine
- MA, Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
James Ellison, M.D., MPH
The Swank Foundation Endowed Chair
Dr. James Ellison is a geriatric psychiatrist and one of the nation's foremost experts in dementia.
He is the first Swank Foundation Endowed Chair in Memory Care and Geriatrics.
He works as a geriatric psychiatrist in an interdisciplinary consultative team that includes geriatricians, social workers, a neurologist, and a nurse practitioner devoted to the shared goal of treating people with mild to severe cognitive difficulties and related emotional and behavioral conditions.
His research interests have addressed cognitive and behavioral aspects of the neurocognitive disorders and he has served as a site Principal Investigator in multiple trials of new medications for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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- Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology : Editor
- American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Society of Delaware
- Group for Advancement of Psychiatry
- American Medical Association
- Medical Society of Delaware
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology
- American Psychiatric Association