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Gary J. Kennedy M.D. Dr. Kennedy is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science and Director Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Fellowship Training Program Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine. More than sixty psychiatrists with subspecialty training in geriatrics have graduated from the program.The training program is closely allied with Montefiores Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Training Program with shared responsibilities in clinical services case conferences journal clubs and research. He has authored numerous publications on late life mental health and has given a number of invited presentations to educational scientific and public policy organizations in the United States and abroad. His research has focused on cardiac arrhythmias the epidemiology of depression and dementiamental health care in nursing homesprimary care sites and in the community and novel communications approaches between health care providers. He has served as a consultant to the NewYork State Commission on Life and the Law regarding physician-assisted suicide and to the Law Revision Commission regarding guardianship procedures in NewYork States mental health law. He is a Fellow of the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter CollegeThe New York Academy of Medicine The American Psychiatric Association and a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. He has received a New Investigator Award from the National Institute of Health a travel study fellowship to Israel and the United Kingdom from the United States World Health Organization an Archstone Award for Program Innovation from the American Public Health AssociationAnnual Exemplary Psychiatrists Award National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. The American Journal of Nursing cited his Geriatric Mental Health Care published in 2000 as one of the best books of the year on gerontology. He was also the 2005-2007 chair of the Geriatric Mental Health Foundation a Washington based 501c3 group advocating for the mental health and well being of senior Americans. Since 1992 he has been listed as one of The Best Doctors in America. He has appeared on National Public Radio the Today Show with Katie Couric and ABCsWorld NewsTonight. Born in Dallas Dr. Kennedy is an alumnus of the University of Texas in Austin and the University ofTexas Health Science Center in San Antonio. RECIPIENT OF THE LEO JULIA FORCHHEIMER FOUNDATION LIFE TIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD NYFE 2014 Recognition Dinner