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Message from Dr. Kenneth Sakauye
Geriatric Fellowship Program Director

Dr. Kenneth Sakauye

  Thank you for your interest in the Geriatric Psychiatry Residency (Fellowship) program at the University of Tennessee.

Applications are welcomed from board eligible applicants in Psychiatry or those about to satisfactorily complete an ACGME approved 4-year psychiatry residency. The applicant must submit a completed application, current curriculum vitae, personal statement, one letter of reference from the residency directory that adds a statement of anticipated graduation or graduation in good standing from your program, and an additional letter of recommendation from a mentor before interviews will be scheduled. Successful applicants must obtain an unrestricted medical license in Tennessee before starting the Fellowship and must supply additional credentialing information as requested by the University of Tennessee.

Application to the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship is made directly to the Section of Geriatric Psychiatry, not through ERAS. You can download an application and instructions here.

The University of Tennessee, College of Medicine has three campuses (Memphis, Knoxville, Chatanooga). Memphis is considered the flagship campus where the bulk of research and undergraduate training occurs. The Memphis Campus is comprised of 5 hospitals: the Regional Medical Center (The MED), Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Memphis, Methodist Hospital (University Hospital), LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center), and Colleges of Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. The primary clinical locations for the fellowship will be at St. Francis Hospital (an off-campus affiliated hospital) and the VA. St. Francis is a 519 bed hospital housed on a 42 acre campus. It has all private rooms that include 3 inpatient floors for psychiatry including a geriatric psychiatry unit (100 bed capacity) and a modern 197 bed Nursing Home on its campus. The VA is a 254-bed facility located on a 33-acre campus adjacent to our psychiatry offices on the main UT campus. The VA is expanding geriatric psychiatry services and supports Geriatric Medicine and Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowships, a Neuropsychology training program, and is expanding Alzheimer’s and service research.

If you are wondering about Memphis as a place to live, locals suggest Memphis has gone from the Middle of Nowhere to becoming the Middle of Everything. In the 2000 census, Memphis was the 41st largest city in the U.S. with a population of 680,768, and a metropolitan area population of 1,260,581. It has 7 fortune 500 companies demonstrating its economic viability and growth, and as the home of FedEx it has the largest air cargo volume in the world (ahead of Hong Kong and Tokyo). Good restaurants, Arts, and things to do are plentiful. Housing is affordable and Memphis, overall, is a beautiful “green city.”

For more information contact Kenneth Sakauye, M.D. at ksakauye@utmem.edu or Angela Augustus (secretarial contact) at (901) 448-4572.

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James A. Greene, M.D.
Professor and Interim Chair

135 North Pauline
Memphis, Tennessee 38105

Phone: (901) 448-4572
Fax: (901) 448-1684
E-mail: jgreen41@utmem.edu
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