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Mental health matters understanding psychiatry with mark s komrad part 1
Mark S. Komrad (born June 26, 1957, New York, New York, United States) is an American psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staff of Sheppard Pratt Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Sheppard Pratt Campus of the University of Maryland. He is the author of You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince Your Loved One to Get Counseling.
Contents
- Mental health matters understanding psychiatry with mark s komrad part 1
- Dr mark s komrad interview
- Education
- Media Hollywood and public education
- Ethics in psychiatry
- Pubmed indexed publications
- References
Dr mark s komrad interview
Education
Komrad completed an undergraduate degree at Yale University summa cum laude in molecular biophysics and biochemistry where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and graduated first in his residential college in 1979. He earned his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree at Duke University School of Medicine in 1983 and received the Thomas Jefferson Award and the Joseph Eldridge Markee Memorial Award in Anatomy. During his medical education, Komrad was awarded a fellowship at the Hastings Center for bioethics. Komrad was a resident in internal medicine followed by a residency in psychiatry, both at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Media, Hollywood and public education
Komrad was the host of the weekly radio talkshow "Komrad on call" on the American Radio Network in the 1990s. He was then the regular psychiatrist guest on the National Public Radio (NPR) radio show "Sunday Rounds with John Stupak". He has appeared on TV and radio to discuss topics in psychiatry. He is now the mental health contributor to the NPR show, "Mid-Day with Dan Rodricks" broadcast from WYPR and for "The Medical Hour" broadcast from WCBM .
Komrad consulted as technical advisor to the movie "Silent Fall," to help develop portrayals of the two psychiatrists Richard Dreyfus and John Lithgow He has consulted to other dramatic productions and lectured about how Hollywood depicts psychiatry, psychiatric treatment, and the ethics of therapy. He has also produced and performed the public service announcements about psychiatry and mental health for The Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry broadcast on WBAL radio.
On Komrad’s radio shows, a common "open phones" question has been about how to convince a troubled friend or loved-one to get a professional mental health evaluation. He travels throughout the country giving workshops and lectures on how to help people convince troubled loved one's to get psychiatric treatment and other topics in psychiatry, as well as his "Ask the Doctor" lectures, where audiences can ask open questions about mental illness and psychiatric treatment, similar to the "open phones" hours on his radio shows. His book, workshops, and public lectures garnered him the "Exemplary Psychiatrist Award" from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Frances J. Lentz Memorial "Mental Health Professional of the Year" Award from the Metropolitan Baltimore NAMI affiliate in 2013.
Ethics in psychiatry
He currently serves on the Ethics Committee of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Komrad is the Ethicist – in – Residence at the Sheppard Pratt Health Systems in Maryland where he chaired the Ethics Committee and the Ethics Consultation Service for over 15 years. Komrad has also been an advisor to The Scattergood Program for Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare at the University of Pennsylvania.