Biography
Dr. Art Walaszek is a board-certified geriatric psychiatrist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School, completed psychiatry training at the University of Washington and completed a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Dr. Walaszek is Vice Chair for Education and Director of Psychiatry Residency Training at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry. He oversees medical education in Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, including the Integrated Neurosciences course for second-year medical students.
Locally, Dr. Walaszek is the Chair of the CME Committee of the Wisconsin Psychiatric Association. Nationally, he is on the Executive Council of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, is the editor of the Bulletin of the Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP), and is the Program Chair of the 2012 Annual Meeting of AAP. He serves as an American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) Representative for Maintenance of Certification (MOC).
As a member of the Wisconsin Geriatric Psychiatry Initiative, Dr. Walaszek speaks extensively on geriatric topics in various medical and non-medical settings across the state. He has co-authored articles and book chapters on late-life emotional and behavioral problems, anxiety disorders in long-term care, late-life depression and ethical issues in late life. His clinical practice involves caring for primarily older adults with depressive disorders, anxiety disorders and dementia, and their families. Madison Magazine, based on a survey of Madison-area physicians, named Dr. Walaszek to its 2010 list of Top Docs.
Related Links
- Art Walaszek's CV - PDF
- Walaszek A, "Clinical ethics issues in geriatric psychiatry." Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2009 - PubMed
- Walaszek A, Rieder R, "Becoming a psychiatrist-researcher: what it means and how to do it." Academic Psychiatry 2011 - PubMed
- Reardon CL, Ogrinc G, Walaszek A, “A didactic and experiential quality improvement curriculum for psychiatry residents.” Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2011 - PDF
- Reardon CL, Walaszek A, "Neurology didactic curricula for psychiatry residents." Academic Psychiatry 2012 - PubMed