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Associate Professor Mark Oldham
Mark Oldham, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry and a nationally recognized leader in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry with more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. He is Medical Director of PRIME Medicine (Proactive Integration of Mental Healthcare in Medicine), a service that provides proactive psychiatric care to hospital medicine patients. As Deputy Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and lead author for the American Psychiatric Association’s resource document on proactive C-L psychiatry, Dr. Oldham is invested in shaping the way mental health care is delivered, emphasizing the value of early, integrated, and team-based approaches.
A leading authority on delirium, Dr Oldham is the Immediate Past President of the American Delirium Society and a member of the workgroup that developed the recent American Psychiatric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines on delirium. His research aims to understand how sleep-wake disturbances inform delirium and its outcomes, with the goal of identifying novel therapeutics. Dr. Oldham is also recognized for his work on catatonia, having co-authored the British Association for Psychopharmacology’s evidence-based guidelines and the American Psychiatric Association’s resource document on catatonia. He has also collaborated with Dr. Francis, senior author of the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale, to develop one of the field’s leading educational resources for assessing catatonia.
Dr Oldham is an advocate for excellence in mental health care, especially for medically ill older adults. In line with the conference theme of “Breaking barriers, building integration,” he hopes to inspire attendees to serve as change agents, fostering collaboration in their care settings and advancing the delivery of mental health care for older adults.
Mark Oldham, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry and a nationally recognized leader in consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry with more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. He is Medical Director of PRIME Medicine (Proactive Integration of Mental Healthcare in Medicine), a service that provides proactive psychiatric care to hospital medicine patients. As Deputy Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and lead author for the American Psychiatric Association’s resource document on proactive C-L psychiatry, Dr. Oldham is invested in shaping the way mental health care is delivered, emphasizing the value of early, integrated, and team-based approaches.
A leading authority on delirium, Dr Oldham is the Immediate Past President of the American Delirium Society and a member of the workgroup that developed the recent American Psychiatric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines on delirium. His research aims to understand how sleep-wake disturbances inform delirium and its outcomes, with the goal of identifying novel therapeutics. Dr. Oldham is also recognized for his work on catatonia, having co-authored the British Association for Psychopharmacology’s evidence-based guidelines and the American Psychiatric Association’s resource document on catatonia. He has also collaborated with Dr. Francis, senior author of the Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale, to develop one of the field’s leading educational resources for assessing catatonia.
Dr Oldham is an advocate for excellence in mental health care, especially for medically ill older adults. In line with the conference theme of “Breaking barriers, building integration,” he hopes to inspire attendees to serve as change agents, fostering collaboration in their care settings and advancing the delivery of mental health care for older adults.
