Dilip V. Jeste, M.D. is Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Director of the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and VA San Diego Healthcare System. He is also the Director of the Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research at UCSD focusing on psychosis in late-life, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

Dr. Jeste obtained his medical education in Poona, and psychiatry training in Bombay, India. In the USA, he completed his psychiatry residency at Cornell University, and Neurology residency at George Washington University. He was a research fellow, and later, Chief of the Units on Movement Disorders and Dementias at the NIMH before moving to San Diego.

Dr. Jeste is the Principal Investigator on several research and training grants. He has published eight books, and over 500 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He is the past President of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) and the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry, and the Founding President of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology.

Dr. Jeste is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the NIH Council of Councils. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

He has been listed in “The Best Doctors in America” and has received several awards including:

• The A.E. Bennett Neuropsychiatric Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry
• MERIT Award from the NIMH
• Commendation for Dedicated Service from the American Legion, Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission
• Senior Investigator Award from the AAGP
• C. Charles Burlingame Award from the Institute of Living, Hartford
• The following awards from the American Psychiatric Association:
  • The Award for Research in Psychiatry
  • The Jack Weinberg Memorial Award in Geriatric Psychiatry
  • The George Tarjan Award
• Life-Time Service Award from the American College of International Physicians
• Most Distinguished Physician Teacher/Researcher Award from the American Association of Physicians of Indian origin
• Asian Heritage Award for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Research
• Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders

He is in the Institute of Scientific Information list of the “world's most cited authors”--comprising less than 0.5% percent of all publishing researchers of the last two decades.