Badr Ratnakaran, MD, a geriatric psychiatrist at the Center for Healthy Aging and medical director of CONNECT at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, has published ‘Stimulant Prescriptions for Older Adults Are on Rise: A Guide for Safe Prescribing‘ in the APA’s Psychiatric News.
The article was written with Antoinette Shappell, MD, an adult and child and adolescent psychiatrist and Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Under Secretary for Health in Patient Care Services at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. They are both members of the APA Council on Geriatric Psychiatry.
Psychiatric News, the official print and electronic news service of the American Psychiatric Association is published monthly. For the web edition, articles are posted on a breaking-news basis and then moved to their respective issue upon publication of that issue.
