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Rajesh Tampi, M.B.B.S., D.Med.Sci., director of behavioral health services for Masonicare of Wallingford, has been named Geriatric Psychiatric Clinician of the Year by the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. The award was presented in March at AAGP‘s 2013 annual meeting in Los Angeles. Tampi is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and an attending psychiatrist at the Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center of Yale-New Haven Hospital. An expert in the field of neuroscience, Tampi received his medical degree from the University of Kerala and his postgraduate diploma from the University of Leeds. The Indian American physician has been at Yale since 2001, has received the Teaching Attending of the Year Award three years in a row.