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About Dr. Dimijian

Greg Dimijian

Since 1989, Greg Dimijian has taught a three-part seminar in behaviorial ecology to the fourth-year psychiatry residents at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where he is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry.

Dr. Dimijian won the 2005-2006 Teacher of the Year award for the fourth-year psychiatry residents. He now teaches this course twice a year to residents in training in adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry. The emphasis for the three seminars which comprise the course's content, is on infusing a biological basis into the teaching material, in order to open up the neglected study of ultimate origins of form and function, that is, “Darwinian medicine.”

The seminars presented on this Web site are based on the material Dr. Dimijian uses in his behavioral ecology course and incorporate not only Dr. Dimijian's extensive knowledge and experience but also imagery from his portfolio of nature photography.

A family of elephants in the Masai Mara of Kenya
A family of lephants in the Masai Mara
Two elephant bulls in Savuti, northern Botswana
First image Toddlers greet and older family members caress them gently, as a family reuintes after being separated, in the Masai Mara of Kenya.
Second image In Botswana, a family of elephants pause to drink from the Khwai River.
Third image In Savuti, northern Botswanawo, two elephant bulls leave a dusty water hole at sundown to join their batchelor herd.
Photography by Greg and Mary Beth Dimijian
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