Soo Borson, MD

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Director, Geriatric and Family Services Clinic
University of Washington Medical Center
Seattle, Washington

Soo Borson, MD currently is professor for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. She also serves as director of geropsychiatry services at the University of Washington Medical Center.

Dr. Borson earned her undergraduate and medical degree from Stanford University, and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society during her junior year of medical school. After serving her internship in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Mass., Dr. Borson completed her residency in psychiatry, and a fellowship in geriatric psychiatry, at the University of Washington. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Borson is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Borden Award for Clinical Excellence from Stanford Medical School, the Sandoz Award for Academic Excellence from the University of Washington, and the Dorfman Journal Paper Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. She also received the Chief Residents' Award for Outstanding Mentorship, the Outstanding Educator Award from the University of Washington Psychiatry Training Program, and the Senior Faculty Development Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

As an author and co-author, Dr. Borson’s work is published in many leading medical journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Archives of General Psychiatry, the Journal of Neuroendocrinology, the Journal of Gerontology, The Gerontologist, Neurology, Archives of Neurology, Sleep, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Dr. Borson is the former president (1999-2000), and annual meeting program chair (1997-1998) of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, and a member of the fellowship class (2000-2001) of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership Program in Academic Medicine. She served on the national expert consensus panel for “Practice Guidelines for Treating Agitation in Dementia,” and as a visiting scholar at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System’s Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center. Dr. Borson also chaired the Mental Disorders of Aging Review Committee for the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and currently is the associate editor of neuropsychiatry for the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

She is a lifetime member of The National Registry of Who's Who, and has been listed in The Best Doctors in America, since 1992. Dr. Borson’s research interests include dementia, neurobehavioral syndromes, health services research, and improving dementia management in primary care.