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Available Resources , MD, MPH, Core Leader Peter Rabins is professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as well as associate chair for faculty development in the Department of Psychiatry, providing career guidance to junior faculty. He has joint appointments in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and in the departments of Mental Health and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also a member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Dr. Rabins has focused his career on research defining the psychiatric complications of structural brain disease, specifically Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, and, more recently, fronto-temporal dementia). He developed and studied the efficacy of treatment models for the persistently mentally ill elderly (PATCH program), examined neuroimaging correlates of late-life psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression), and directed a clinical service with outpatient, inpatient, partial-day hospital, mobile outreach, and long-term care facility consultation components. His long-term research interests are in the interface between illness characterized as psychiatric and neurological, and on quality of life measurement in dementia and end-of-life care in dementia. He has a substantial commitment to, and expertise in, supporting the career development of medical students, residents and junior faculty. His background in both academic career development and clinical translational research contributes to his qualifications for directing the Pilot/Exploratory Studies Core. | 
