Constantine G. Lyketsos
Constantine G. Lyketsos, MD, MHS, FAPM, DFAPA, United States
Treasurer (2015-2017)
Dr. Constantine G. Lyketsos is the Elizabeth Plank Althouse Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is also Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
A native of Athens, Greece, Dr. Lyketsos graduated from Northwestern University and Washington University Medical School in St. Louis. He completed residency and Chief Residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, as well as fellowships in clinical epidemiology and neuropsychiatry. He holds a certificate in the business of medicine from Johns Hopkins, where he also completed the Johns Hopkins Leadership Development Program.
An active clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Lyketsos was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Neuropsychiatry Service, which he led for over a decade. He developed one of the largest and most successful academic neuropsychiatry programs in the United States with special expertise in dementia and traumatic brain injury. Prior to assuming his leadership position at Johns Hopkins Bayview, he was co-director of the Johns Hopkins Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry. He has held a joint faculty appointment at the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 1994.
A world expert in the care and treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and related dementias (AD), he has carried out pioneering work on the epidemiology and treatment of neuropsychiatric features of AD. His team is developing biomarkers to accelerate treatment development for AD and other forms of brain injury while designing and implementing innovative clinical trials. He leads efforts to ensure the provision of state-of-the-art Dementia Care for people with dementia in the community. Dr. Lyketsos co-leads a Hopkins-wide effort to advance recovery of the wounded warrior and his family. He also serves on the NFL Players Association Mackey-White Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee for which he Chairs the Long-Term Outcomes subcommittee. In June 2010 he was Conference Chair of Traumatic Brain injury in Professional Football: An Evidence-Based Perspective sponsored by NFL.
As the Chair of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine Task Force on Subspecialization, Dr. Lyketsos was instrumental in the 2003 recognition by the American Board of Medical Specialties of the newest psychiatric subspecialty, “Psychosomatic Medicine.” This rapidly expanding subspecialty is focused on psychiatric aspects of complex medically ill, typically patients with chronic diseases, such as brain injury, where the psychiatric condition is affecting medical care and outcomes.
Dr. Lyketsos is the 2012 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and of the 2006 William S. Proxmire Award for “extraordinary leadership in the fight against Alzheimers.” A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American College of Psychiatrists, he has written over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters, or commentaries. He is Editor of International Review of Psychiatry, and Deputy Editor of International Psychogeriatrics. He is co-author of Practical Dementia Care, and lead Editor of the highly acclaimed Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Diseases: Practical Approaches to Patient Care.
Dr. Lyketsos has been cited as one of America’s Top Doctors for the past decade.
