Rajesh R. Tampi MBBS, MD, DFAPA, MS

Dr. Tampi is a Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, Ohio and the Chief, Section for Geriatric Psychiatry, Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. He is also a Professor of Psychiatry at North East Ohio Medical University. Dr. Tampi also maintains his appointment as a Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct) at Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Tampi is the Co-President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) for 2020-2021. He was the President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) for 2019-2020. Dr. Tampi is a Past President of the International Medical Graduates (IMG) Caucus at the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA and of the AAGP. Dr. Tampi was the Secretary and Treasurer of the AAGP for 2017-2018. He was the Program Chair for the 2017 AAGP Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Tampi is a graduate of the University of Kerala, Kerala, India. He trained in Psychiatry at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England and at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. During his residency training in England, Dr. Tampi also attained a Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychiatry from the University of Leeds. He completed his Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at Yale School of Medicine.

Dr. Tampi has approximately 125 publications on various topics in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. In addition, he is the Editor of 7 books in psychiatry. Dr. Tampi serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Psychiatry, Associate Editor for Drugs in Context (Psychiatry) and is on the Editorial Board of ‘Clinical Interventions in Aging’ and the ‘Annals of Clinical Psychiatry’. Furthermore, he serves as an ad-hoc peer reviewer for 40 journals including the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the American Journal of Psychiatry and the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and other Dementias amongst others.