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Hartford Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry

Academic geriatric psychiatrists are needed to provide mental health services to older adults, conduct research to improve care of older adults with mental disorders, to educate future geriatric psychiatrists, and to inspire more medical students to specialize in geriatric psychiatry. Currently there is a dangerous shortage of geriatric psychiatrists in the U.S.

To address this shortage, the John A. Hartford Foundation provided grants in 2004 to establish two Centers of Excellence in Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, San Diego. These centers were selected because of their expertise and capacity to train faculty in geriatric psychiatry.