anand kumar, md

Anand Kumar, MD, is the Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Lizzie Gilman Professor and at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kumar received his medical degree from Madras Medical College in Madras, India. He completed his Residency training in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and subsequently served as a Medical Staff Fellow in the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. ​

Dr. Kumar’s research focuses on late-life depression and mental disorders of the elderly, including Alzheimer’s disease. He has been consistently funded by NIH research grants for over 18 years and is author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. His papers have been published in prestigious journals including the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Archives of General Psychiatry, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.​

Dr. Kumar has built a research and clinical powerhouse in Chicago, with UIC Department of Psychiatry currently ranked 24th in the nation and 1st in Illinois for NIMH funding. Combined with outstanding clinical services, superb mentoring, and diverse patient populations, UIC residents have a solid foundation onto which continued acquisition of knowledge can be built.​

Dr. Kumar is renowned in Geriatric Psychiatry as an educator and mentor; his former trainees have been awarded clinical, research, and/or training positions at such esteemed institutions as UCLA, Brown, Emory, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Yale University. Recently, Dr. Kumar was awarded the Jack Weinberg Award for Geriatric Psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association.