Professor and Department Head of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago
Dr. Anand Kumar is the head of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on late-life depression and mental disorders of the elderly, including Alzheimer’s disease, and he has been continuously funded by the NIH for over 18 years. Widely recognized as a leader in geriatric psychiatry, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and received the Jack Weinberg Award for Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.
