The Retreat is a premiere, self funded psychiatric setting operated by the nationally renowned Sheppard Pratt Health System, located in the suburbs of Baltimore, MD.
Steven S. Sharfstein, MD, MPA
President and CEO, Sheppard Pratt Health System
Steven S. Sharfstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he has worked for 21 years. He is also Clinical Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. A practicing clinician for more than 30 years, he is best known for his research and writing on the economics of practice and public mental health policy. Over a period of 13 years, he held a variety of positions at the National Institute of Mental Health, including Director of Mental Health Service Programs, as well as positions in consultation/liaison psychiatry and research in behavioral medicine on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. He has written on a wide variety of clinical and economic topics and has published more than 140 professional papers, 40 book chapters, and ten books, including (as coauthor) Madness and Government: Who Cares for the Mentally Ill?: a history of the federal community mental health centers program.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston from 1969 to 1972. Dr. Sharfstein also received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government in 1973 and a certificate from the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1991. He was Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association from 1991-95, its Vice President from 2002-2004, and President from 2005-2006. Dr. Sharfstein also received the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.
At times, Dr. Sharfstein takes on patients at The Retreat as an attending psychiatrist.
2011 Sheppard Pratt Health System All rights reserved.
Website Design by Groove Commerce