This document provides a professional biography of Gabe J. Maletta, Ph.D., M.D., DLF-APA, EFACPsych. It summarizes his extensive career in geriatric psychiatry and psychopharmacology, including his roles as a clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator. Key details include his positions at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Minneapolis VAMedical Center, leadership roles in professional organizations, publications, research grants, and national/international recognition.

1. GABE J. MALETTA, Ph.D., M.D., DLF-APA, EFACPsych.
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Professional Biography
Gabe J. Maletta, Ph.D., M.D., is presently Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and
the Department of Family Medicine/Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical
School. He retired from the Minneapolis VAMedical Center (VAMC)in January 2000 where he
was the Associate Chief of Staff for Geriatrics and Extended Care; and Director, Extended Care
and Rehabilitation Patient Service Line (PS1L).Prior to those positions, for 12 years (1979-1991)
he was Director of the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC)at the VAMC.
He serves or has served on the medical staffs of the VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN; VA
Medical Center, St Cloud, MN; Bethesda Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Hennepin County Medical
Center, Minneapolis, MN;and Regina Hospital, Hastings, MN. He presently practices out-patient
psychiatry and serves nationally as a teacher and clinical consultant in gerontology, geriatric
psychiatry and psychopharmacology to: professional staffs, families, and administrators/policy
planners at in-patient hospital settings and at multiple long-term health care facilities (e.g.,
assisted living; care centers; dementia units), as well as independent living facilities; to the
academic community; the legal community; the religious community; and to the pharmaceutical
and other industries.
Dr. Maletta earned his B.S in Chemistry (1960) from Fairleigh Dickinson University in N.J.
He earned his M.A.(1965) and Ph.D. (1967) in Physiology (with a sub-specialty in changes in
neurochemistry and neuroendocrinology during "critical periods" in the developing and aging
brain), from the University of California, Berkeley. After four years at the Aging Branch of the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health
(1967-1971) in Bethesda, MD, he attended medical school and earned his M.D. from Case
Western Reserve University (1975) in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his post-graduate training in
Medicine and Psychiatry at University Hospitals, Cleveland, during which time he was chosen as
a National Falk Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA);he is board certified in
Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN).
Dr. Maletta was instrumental on a national level in helping to develop the field of Geriatric
Psychiatry. He was one of three geropsychiatrists chosen nationally by the ABPNas a member
of the committee charged with the development and implementation of the first Board
Examination for Certification for "Added Qualifications in Geriatric Psychiatry" (given in
April,1991), which was a significant step fo:rrwardtowards its' subsequent recognition as a formal
sub-specialty. He continued in the development of subsequent exams, serving as vice-chair of
the Examination Committee in Geriatric Pstchiatry of the ABPNfrom 1989-1995. He served as a

2. member of the Board of Directors of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP)
from 1986 to 1989, and again from 1994 to 1997. He had a four-year tenure (1993-97) as the
only psychiatrist member of the American Academy of Neurology's test-writing committee for
residency training.
Since 1979, among his chairmanships and/or memberships on more than 85 national or
international academic, clinical, research, education, government, community, and public policy
committees, Dr. Maletta was vice-chair of the Council on Aging of the American Psychiatric
Association (1992 to 1996) and chaired their Weinberg Award Committee (1992 to 2000). He was
an assistant editor of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (1991 to 2000), as well as
serving on the editorial boards of eight other national and international scientific journals. Dr.
Maletta served for several years as an examiner (Part II) for Board Certification in Psychiatry for
the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (2007); a Fellow of
the Gerontological Society of America (since 1970); a charter member of the Society for
Neuroscience (1969); and an Emeritus Fellow of the American Collegeof Psychiatrists (2013). He
is an invited contributing member of the Committee on Aging of the Group for the Advancement
of Psychiatry (GAP). He is the recipient of numerous teaching, clinical, government (Federal and
Minnesota), and administrative citations and awards, including the Authors Award from the
American College of Nursing Home Administrators; the Veterans Administration Health System;
and the American Legion.
Dr. Maletta is editor or co-editor of 13 books and has over 151 other scientific publications -
both basic science and clinical - on various subjects in CNS gerontology and geriatric psychiatry,
including: the neurochemistry of the developing and aging brain; the diagnosis and treatment-
drug and non-drug - of neuropsychiatric illnesses of the elderly, including behavioral and
psychological symptoms in long-term-care dementia patients; the pharmacologic uniqueness of
the elderly patient; and the care of chronic caregivers.
Dr. Maletta was, for many years, a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)research
grants reviewer. He has had funded government or pharmaceutical clinical research grants,
beginning in 1984; he was the Principal Investigator of a multi-year, multi-million dollar,
multidisciplinary research Program Project Grant on Management of Dementia, funded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH),located at the Minneapolis VAMedical Center. He remains an
active clinical researcher.
Dr. Maletta directed a multi-year NIHTraining Grant for pre- and post-doctoral students in
Pharmacology and Health Services research at the University of Minnesota. He was the director
of both the Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship programs, located at the

3. Minneapolis VAMedical Center, and has trained scores of residents and fellows in Psychiatry,
Medicine, Neurology, Family Practice, and Pharmacy.
Dr. Maletta is a nationally and internationally respected clinician, teacher, educator,
lecturer, author, administrator and clinical researcher, who has been studying basic science and
clinical aspects of the aging nervous system since 1963. He presently is active as a teacher in
the clinical psychiatry didactic program for medical students at the University of Minnesota
Medical School, along with his work as a practicing out-patient physician and a clinical
consultant in geriatric psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He continues a prolific speaking
schedule, both to clinical health-care professional and lay audiences; since 1976 he has
presented over 1150 invited keynotes, workshops, seminars, lectures, and in-services throughout
the United States and Europe on various aspects of gerontology, geriatric psychiatry,
pharmacology, and neuroscience.
Dr. Malettas' scholarly work includes contributing chapters to major textbooks in aging,
geriatric psychiatry, as well as the physiology of the aging brain, including: "Comprehensive
Review of Geriatric Psychiatry" (Sadavoy, et. al., Eds.); and "Physiological Basis of Aging and
Geriatrics" (4th Edition; 2007. P.S.Timiras M.D., Ph.D., Ed.).
He co-edited and contributed chapters to the textbook: "Principles and Practice of Geriatric
Psychiatry", published in 2006 by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. Most recently, he continued
in those roles for the 2nd edition of the book, published by Lippincott in 2011.
Among Dr. Malettas' current clinical interests in understanding and caring for older people
are: normal physiologic changes with aging; anxiety, depressive, and psychotic disorders; the
medical/psychiatric evaluation and differential diagnosis of cognitive dysfunction - including
dementia and delirium, and managing their associated behavioral and psychological symptoms;
the unique aspects of psychopharmacologic treatment and management of older patients; and
the education and care of caregivers, both family and professional.
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