Eric Rankin, Ph.D. is a professor and psychoanalyst in the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry at West Virginia University School of Medicine. He has served as the director of the clinical gerontology program in the Department and is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America. He was involved in the initial development and implementation of the School of Medicine’s Sixty-Five Plus Clinic as well as the Memory Disorders Program. Dr. Rankin has served as a principal investigator on NIA sponsored grants as well as investigator-initiated awards from pharmaceutical companies and private foundations.