Lissy Jarvik

Lissy Jarvik (née Feingold; March 17, 1924 – October 1, 2021) was a Dutch-born American geriatric psychiatrist.

[4] In 1940, she and her family received a travel visa from Aristides de Sousa Mendes, which they used to flee the Netherlands for the United States.

[2] After receiving her medical degree, Jarvik began working at both the psychiatry department at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.

While at UCLA, she founded the first in-patient psychogeriatrics unit at the hospital there, as well as the first behavioral science course for students in their first year of medical training.

[2] In the early 1980s, she started a geriatric psychiatry fellowship, in which fellows would be trained at the Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging.