An interview with Stuart M. Sotsky, MD, MPH

Abstract

Stuart Sotsky, MD, MPH received his BA with honors in 1968 and his MD and MPH in 1971 from The Johns Hopkins University. He completed his psychiatry residency at Yale University School of Medicine in 1975, where he served as Chief Resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Thereafter he completed a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health where he served as Clinical Associate in the Laboratory of Clinical Psychobiology. He joined the full-time faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine in 1977 as Assistant Professor and Director of Outpatient Services. He became Associate Professor in 1981 and Professor in 1991 and launched the Division of Ambulatory Care as Director in 1992, which included physician managed mental health services and population-based health services. He was devoted to the training and supervision of several generations of psychiatry residents, psychology and social work interns, and medical students, and initiated and coordinated the Clinical Psychopharmacology, Diagnostic Assessment, and Brief Psychotherapy training programs in the Department. In this addition to JGLMH’s Oral History Series, Emeritus Editor Jack Drescher, MD, interviews Dr. Sotsky about his professional and personal life.

Keywords:

• AGLP
• american psychiatry
• APA
• gay
• oral history
• psychiatry
• LGBTQ

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Jack Drescher