Dr. Andrius Baskys is a practicing gero-psychiatrist as well as neuroscientist, inventor and educator. He has over 30 years of experience in mental health care and research focusing on memory disorders, their diagnosis and treatment. He completed his psychiatry residency at the University of Toronto, Canada, clinical fellowship at McMaster University, Hamilton and post-doctoral training at the University of California San Francisco. Throughout his career he taught and conducted research as a faculty member at the University of Toronto, University of California Irvine, UCLA as well as a visiting Professor at the FMMU in Xi’an, China. Dr. Baskys published over 200 papers, presentations and reports and two textbooks on psychopharmacology.

His most recent research interests are pharmacogenomics, aging, vascular dementia and development of mobile device-powered tools for bringing pharmacogenomic information to clinical practice.