Mark Oldham is a consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrist who completed his fellowship in C-L at Yale. He is currently at the University of Rochester Medical Center where he is supported by a K23 career development award from the National Institute on Aging to develop expertise on the relationship between sleep-wake disturbance and postoperative cognition—both delirium and Alzheimer disease and related dementias. Clinically, Dr. Oldham is the medical director of a proactive psychiatric consult service and leads a multidisciplinary team involved in improving and harmonizing delirium management efforts across the institution. He serves as Deputy Editor of the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Treasurer of the American Delirium Society. He has also co-created catatonia assessment resources in collaboration with Dr. Francis (https://bfcrs.urmc.edu).

Dr. Oldham’s academic passion is delirium, but he takes an unconventional approach. He challenges the assumption that delirium is a single condition; rather, he sees delirium as a convergent clinical syndrome that represents a variety of different conditions that involve disrupted neurophysiology. He aims to spur the field to a more robust understanding of delirium disorder.