Yonas E. Geda, M.D.

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Master of Science - Clinical Research (basic, intermediate, and advanced applied epidemiology and related subjects) Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Fellow - Behavioral Neurology (Mayo Foundation Scholar) Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Fellow - Behavioral Neurology, Medical Psychiatry and Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Resident - General Psychiatry Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Chief Resident - Psychiatry Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Basic Neuroscience Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Internship - Primary Care Medicine Wright State University School of Medicine
Internship - Psychiatry Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
MD School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University (Haile Selassie)
Internship - Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Ob-GYN (3 months of each done in Ethiopia) Armed Forces General Hospital
Internship - Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Ob-GYN (3 months of each) University Internship, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University (Haile Selassie)

Chair, Neuropsychiatry Special Interest Group, American Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, 2008-present
Science Committee, Groupe de Recherche sur la maladie d'Alzheimer, 2008-present
Education Committee, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2005-present
Harold Amos Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2008-2012

Neuropsychiatry of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which is the transitional zone between the cognitive changes of normal aging and dementia. Subjects with MCI constitute a high risk group because they develop dementia at 10-15% per year, as compared to the general population of 1-2%.

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