Jack Hirschowitz, M. D.


Jack is an expert in education and organizational change.  His main role in the workshop is to  help design models for effective implementation of organizational change.  His background as a psychiatrist, researcher, and administrator make him uniquely qualified to clarify positive directions in organizational change.

Jack has been the recipient of a number of federal research grants and has authored more than one hundred and fifty research publications and abstracts.  He has made significant contributions to the phenomenology, psychobiology and pharmacology of Schizophrenia and the Affective disorders.

He is an Examiner for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and chairs an American Psychiatric Association Task Force on the homeless mentally ill.  He is a faculty member of the VA’s Leadership Institute as well as the Bayer Institute for Healthcare Communication.  He serves on the board of Disaster Psychiatry Outreach as well as the Project for Psychiatric Outreach to the Homeless.  He is also a fellow of the Faculty of Psychiatrists of the College of Medicine of South Africa.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Jack is the recipient of the Nancy C.A. Roeske Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education from the American Psychiatric Association and the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine 2003 Award.  In 2004 he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and in 2005 he received the First Annual Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents from the American Psychiatric Association.

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