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A b o u t t h e Au t h o r s Abhilash K. Desai, M.D., is associate professor and director of the Center for Healthy Brain Aging in the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. He received an H.S.C. from Jaihind College and an M.D. from Seth G. S. Medical College , both in Bombay, India. From 2004 to 2008, Dr. Desai served as medical director of the Alzheimer’s Center of Excellence, ThedaCare Behavioral Health, in Appleton, Wisconsin, which received the Outstanding Organization Award from the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Association in 2007. He received the Best Performance by a Community Member award from the Wisconsin Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, Inc. He was named one of the Volunteers of the year in 2001 by the Alzheimer’s Association, Saint Louis chapter. Dr. Desai’s practice involves promoting the well-being and relieving the suffering both of residents living in assisted living homes and nursing homes and of their family members. George T. Grossberg, M.D., is the Samuel W. Fordyce Professor and director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. He received a B.A. from yeshiva University and an M.D. from Saint Louis University. Dr. Grossberg is a former president of the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and of the International Psychogeriatric Association. He is a recipient of the Missouri Adult Day Care Association Outstanding Physician Award for supporting programs that allow seniors to continue living independently or at home with their families, as well as of the Fleishman-Hillard Award for career contributions to geriatrics . Dr. Grossberg is coauthor of The Essential Herb-Drug-Vitamin Interaction Guide (2007). He has edited eight textbooks and written more than 400 articles, chapters, and abstracts. He currently serves as section editor of geriatric psychiatry for Current Psychiatry and is on the editorial boards of Demencia Hoy, the International Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. Dr. Grossberg has served as a consultant on nursing homes to the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division; chaired the development of “Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Depression in the Nursing Home” for the American Medical Directors Association; and developed educational guidelines on Alzheimer disease for the American Academy of Family Practice. He is a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry in developing protocols for central nervous system disorders in elderly people and is involved in a variety of basic as well as clinical research projects, all with a focus on behavioral disturbances in dementia. ...

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