Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH
- Professor and Vice-chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Director of the Division of Geriatric and Neuropsychiatry
- pvrabins@jhmi.edu
Biography
Peter V. Rabins, MD, MPH, is Professor and Vice-chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is also Director of the Division of Geriatric and Neuropsychiatry and Principal Investigator on an NINDS grant to assess care decisions in late stage dementia. He also has joint appointments in the Departments of Medicine Health Policy & Management and Mental Health.
Dr Rabins received a BA in Political Science from the University of Florida in 1969. He went on to earn his MD from Tulane University in 1973 and his MPH from Tulane University School of Public Health in 1974. After a psychiatry residence at the University of Oregon, he completed a one year fellowship in consultation/liaison and neuropsychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and has been on the faculty there since 1978.
Dr Rabins has focused his career on the study of psychiatric disorders in older persons. His current research focuses on the effectiveness of current therapies for Alzheimer disease, the development of measures of quality of life in persons with Alzheimer disease, and care of patients with late stage dementia. Dr Rabins is the author of more than 230 articles and book chapters. He is co-author of The 36 Hour Day, first published in 1981, Practical Dementia Care published in 2000, and a new book, Getting Old Without Getting Anxious, which was published in February 2005.
Education
- MD – Tulane University School of Medicine
- MPH – Tulane University School of Medicine
- BA – University of Florida
Selected Publications
- Blass DB, Rabins PV. Dementia. http://pier.acponline.org/physicians/diseases/d169. [Date accessed: 2002 Nov 21] In: PIER [online database]. Philadelphia, American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, 2002.
- Lyketsos CG, Gonzales-Salvador T, Chin JJ, Baker A, Black B, Rabins PV. A follow-up study of change in quality of life among persons with dementia residing in a long-term care facility. Int J Ger Psychiatry, 18:275-281, 2003.
- Lyketsos CG, DelCampo L, Steinberg M, Miles-Samus Q, Steele CD, Munro C, Baker AS, Sheppard JME, Frangakis C, Brandt J, Rabins, PV. Treating depression in Alzheimer’s disease: Efficacy and safety of sertraline, and the benefits of depression reduction: The DIADS Study. Arch Gen Psychiatry, 2003.
- Black BS, Kasper J, Brandy J, Shore AD, German P, Burton L, Gallo JJ, Lyketsos C, RABINS PV. Identifying dementia in high-risk community samples: The Memory and Medical Care Study. Alz Dis and Associated Disorders 17:9-18, 2003.
- Chan D-C, Kasper JD, Black BS. RABINS PV. Presence of behavioral and psychological symptoms predicts nursing home placement in community-dwelling elders with cognitive impairment in univariate but not multivariate analysis. J of Gerontology 58A:548-554, 2003.
- Rabins PV. Getting Old Without Getting Anxious. New York: Avery/Penguin Group, 2005.