Joseph Goveas, MD, is Professor (with Tenure) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, and the Institute for Health and Equity at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW). Dr. Goveas is the Vice Chair and Director of Geriatric Psychiatry at the MCW. Dr. Goveas has received several awards including being selected every year since 2009 as one of the Best Doctors in America and is an elected member of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society of Biological Psychiatry. He is a recipient of the 2011 Investigator of the year award from the Alzheimer’s Association of Southeastern Wisconsin and was selected as one of the promising junior investigators in Alzheimer’s disease by the 2013 Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease. He is a past scholar of the NIMH/Weill Cornell Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Mental Health. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for NIH study sections and has several peer-reviewed publications in high-impact medical journals, written book chapters, and has given national and international presentations related to bereavement and grief, and late-life depression and Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders.

Makenzie Hatfield Kresch, MD, is an MCW Clinical faculty member who specializes in adults and seniors (65+). She attended medical school at Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine. She then completed five years of postgraduate training, including a residency program in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin; the first year of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin (a 2-year program); and then transitioned to the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin, which she completed in 2023. Dr. Hatfield supervises and teaches at the Veterans Administration in the Geriatric Psychiatry clinic for MCW Psychiatry Residents. She is Board Certified in General/Adult Psychiatry and Board Eligible in Geriatric Psychiatry.  She specializes in mood and psychotic disorders, neurocognitive disorders (dementia), ADHD (child and adult), and “Seasons of Life” changes.