UM/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program

Departmental and Training Program Leadership

Anthony F. Lehman, M.D., M.S.P.H., Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry: Dr. Lehman has focused his clinical, teaching and research activities on improving the quality of life for those who suffer from severe and persistent mental illness. In addition to investigating the impact of substance use on the diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, Dr. Lehman has studied the effectiveness of innovative psychiatric treatment programs for the homeless. Much of his research has examined outcomes including his role as the Principal Investigator for the Schizophrenia Patient Outcomes Research Team. Dr. Lehman has received numerous awards from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, and he recently received the 2004 Robert Cancro Best Chairman Award by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

M. Philip Luber, M.D., Director of Education and Residency Training: Throughout his career Dr. Luber has been focused on the education and training of residents, fellows, medical students, and physicians in practice. He received his medical training at Columbia University and completed his psychiatry residency training at Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital – Cornell. He has received national recognition for the development of innovative training programs for psychiatrists as well as physicians in other specialties. His clinical interests include comprehensive psychiatric care of medically ill patients utilizing both psychopharmacology and psychotherapy. His research interests include depression in the primary care setting and doctor-patient communication.

Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D., Clinical Professor and Vice Chairman (Sheppard Pratt): As the President and CEO of Sheppard Pratt Health System, Dr. Sharfstein had led that institution from a long-term inpatient hospital to a comprehensive and integrated health system. He is a national expert in health care economics and is the past president of the American Psychiatric Association. In a variety of capacities in the APA and other organizations, Dr. Sharfstein is a powerful spokesperson for maintaining quality resident education as psychiatry and medicine as a whole move through the current economic storms.

The Faculty: 143 paid faculty and 175 volunteer faculty members provide a rich environment for training. These faculty members cover virtually all approaches in modern psychiatry, from the psychodynamic to the biological, and have interests which span an enormous variety of topics, from neurotransmitters to neuroimaging to psychoanalysis to ethics and philosophy. All of these approaches and interests coexist comfortably in our Department.

The Residents: We also encourage leadership in our residents. In addition to leadership in the training program, residents are encouraged to apply for national awards and fellowships. In recent years, our residents have received the APA Glaxo Welcome Fellowship, the American College of Psychiatrists' Laughlin Fellowship, the APA Janssen Research Scholarship, the Biological Psychiatry Travel Fellowship, the NIMH Research Colloquium Scholar, the APA/CMHS Minority Fellowship, the ACNP Minority Fellowship, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Ginsberg Fellowship, and the resident membership to ACGME Residency Review Committee in Psychiatry.

Updated August 2006

This page was last updated on: December 5, 2007.

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