Paula Trzepacz, MD
Dr. Paula T. Trzepacz works at Eli Lilly and Company in
Indianapolis after a long academic medical career. She is
currently a Senior Medical Fellow on the Alzheimer's Disease
team, and previously was Senior Medical Director of US
Neurosciences for 5 years and Medical Fellow on the global
Strattera team for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. She
maintains clinical faculty appointments as Professor of Psychiatry
at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Tufts
University School of Medicine, and Indiana University School of
Medicine where she collaborates in research, publishing and
teaching. A native of New England, Dr. Trzepacz received her B.A.
in Biological Sciences from Wellesley College in
Wellesley, Massachusetts and her M.D. from Dartmouth Medical
School in Hanover, New Hampshire. She completed an internship in
Internal Medicine at Berkshire Medical Center, University of
Massachusetts Medical School, and a residency in General Psychiatry
at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School.
She also completed a Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison
Psychiatry at Dartmouth under the late Dr. Zbigniew Lipowski.
During residency she "moonlighted" as an emergency room physician.
She was an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
School of Medicine, where she met her wonderful husband, Robert W.
Baker, MD, prior to their moving to Jackson where she served
as Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of
Mississippi Medical School. Her main expertise is in Geriatrics
Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, and Psychosomatic Medicine
including delirium, dementias and traumatic brain
injury.
Dr. Trzepacz has extensive clinical and teaching experience in
the assessment and management of psychiatric patients who have
comorbid neurological or medical disorders. She served as an oral
board certification examiner and served over 10 years on the
Neurology question-writing Committee for the national board
specialty psychiatry examinations for the American Board of
Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). She has published and lectured
extensively and has written two books. She serves on the editorial
boards of the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical
Neurosciences, General Hospital Psychiatry, and Psychosomatics. A
principal investigator or collaborator on grants funded by the
National Institutes of Health, she has been involved in a
genomics study of post-operative delirium at Duke University
Medical School and ICU delirium at Indiana University
School of Medicine. She has a number of ongoing international
research collaborations and is an Advisor to the DSM-V
Neurocognitive Disorders Working Group at the American Psychiatric
Association.
Dr. Trzepacz was President of the Academy of Psychosomatic
Medicine (APM) in 2004-5, and President of the American
Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA) ) from 2009-2011, and is a
Fellow of both organizations. A recipient of a number of honors and
awards, including the 1997 Research Award from APM, she was listed
in four editions of Best Doctors in America. Best known for her
research and publications in delirium and neuropsychiatry, she is
recognized as an international expert in delirium.
She and her husband enjoy reading, hiking, boating, running,
gardening, traveling, drinking wine and entertaining friends for
dinner. She also enjoys Bible study and reading Catholic
apologetics. They have two rescued border
collies.