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Geriatric Mental Health Research and Education Consortium (GMHREC)

Mission Statement

To promote best practices in geriatric mental health clinical care, research and education, and to serve practitioners and the community in networking and care access.

Description

The Geriatric Mental Health Research and Education Consortium (GMHREC), organized and coordinated by CWRU Professor of Psychiatry, Martha Sajatovic MD, is a group dedicated to disseminating and raising awareness of geriatric mental health research and education in North East Ohio. Monthly meetings involving clinicians, educators and investigators with expertise in geropyschiatry, neurology, geriatric medicine, neuropsychology, geriatric health services research, ethics, and geriatric education. This group has grown to include approximately 50 geropsychiatrists, neurologists, geriatricians and neuropsychologists over a four-county area in NE Ohio who are invested in research and education in the area of geriatric mental health. The consortium concept as a model and research survey data were presented at the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) annual meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 2006

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