Dr. Meeks completed his undergraduate degree (B.S. in Biology) at Furman University in Greenville, SC and then attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. He then trained in psychiatry residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where he developed a budding interest in geriatric psychiatry. He joined the University of California, San Diego for his clinical fellowship in geriatric psychiatry in 2004. Afterwards, Dr. Meeks completed a two-year, NIMH-sponsored postdoctoral fellowship with UCSD to obtain training in the conduct of medical research relevant to geriatric psychiatry, with the support of the Hartford Center of Excellence as a Junior Scholar. He recently joined the UCSD faculty as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He is working on two current grants—a NARSAD Young Investigator Award and a Geriatric Academic Career Award, as well as collaborating on research on successful aging in conjunction with the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and with financial support from the UCSD Hartford Center of Excellence. He currently serves as an assistant to the editor for the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Some areas of academic interest include late-life depression and chronic pain among older adults, complementary and alternative medicine use by older adults, and culturally and linguistically competent care for older Latinos in need of mental health treatment. He recently received a Young Investigator Award at the Annual Meeting of the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology.
