Research Director

Donovan T. Maust, M.D., M.S.
Willard C. Blackney Jr. and Geraldine LaTendresse Blackney Research Professor of Geriatric Psychiatry

Donovan T. Maust, M.D., M.S., is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher. His research examining psychotropic prescribing to older adults began during residency at the University of Pennsylvania and has led to projects funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Department of Veterans Affairs.

His work has expanded to focus on the health care workforce, particularly those caring for persons with dementia. With colleagues at the University of California San Francisco, the U-M Survey Research Center, and elsewhere, Dr. Maust is co-leading launch of the National Dementia Workforce Study, a family of surveys of the professional dementia workforce funded through an $81 million cooperative agreement with the NIA. Since joining U-M’s faculty in 2013, Dr. Maust has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator of over $97 million in federal funding and has authored over 115 publications.

Dr. Maust earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and completed clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Maust is the Associate Director for Research of the Department of Psychiatry’s Geriatric Psychiatry Program, one of the country’s largest academic geriatric psychiatry groups.