Positions: 
  Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
  Staff Physician, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System

Dinesh Mittal, MD, is recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the South Central VA Health Care Network. As part of the Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research at the Little Rock VA, he is conducting research on psychosocial interventions in older patients with psychotic disorders to improve medication adherence and quality of life. 

He was on sabbatical in 2003 from the VA and the University of Mississippi School of Medicine, working with older patients with schizophrenia at the NIMH-funded Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research, University of California, San Diego. Other recent research has focused on referral patterns of delirium to psychiatry, safety and effectiveness of risperidone in patients with delirium, and methods to enhance understanding of the research informed consent in persons with mild Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.