Dilip V. Jeste

Who is Dilip V. Jeste?

Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is an American geriatric psychiatrist, who specializes in successful aging as well as schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders in older adults. He is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Director of Education, Clinical and Translational Research Institute at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

Jeste is Past President of the American Psychiatric Association. He was the first Asian-American, to preside over this 167-year-old organization. He was also the first psychiatrist of Indian descent to be elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Jeste has published 11 books, more than 575 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and over 125 book chapters, and he was listed in “The Best Doctors in America,” and also in the Institute for Scientific Information list of the “world's most cited authors”, comprising less than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of the previous two decades. He has received numerous awards, including those from the National Alliance on Mental Illness, International Psychogeriatric Organisation, National Institute of Mental Health, Institute of Living, Veterans Affairs, and APA.