Steven Sharfstein, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sheppard Pratt Health System
6501 North Charles Street
Towson, MD 21285
(410) 938-3000
Towson, MD 21285
(410) 938-3000
Dr. Sharfstein:
Sheppard
Pratt was the employee assistance program provider for my former
employer, the D.C. office of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld.
In
October 1991 Dennis M. Race, Esq. (202 887 4028), an Akin Gump
management partner, consulted a Sheppard Pratt counselor who acquiesced
in
Mr. Race's decision to terminate my employment. I was not given an
opportunity to discuss my employment problems with Sheppard Pratt.
Attached is a workers'
compensation claim I have filed based on injuries I suffered at Akin Gump and
which Sheppard Pratt (Washington, DC) negligently failed to
address. Sheppard Pratt promoted itself as knowledgeable about
employment-related problems, but in my case Sheppard Pratt was unable to identify
the specific and recognized problem of workplace mobbing that I was experiencing.
Gary Freedman
Washington, DC
202 362 7064
Steven Samuel "Steve" Sharfstein (born July 2, 1942) is an American psychiatrist. He was Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association from 1991-95, its Vice President from 2002-2004, and President from 2005-2006.
ReplyDeleteSharfstein also received the Human Rights Award from the American Psychiatric Association in 2007.
Sharfstein was born in New York City and earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in 1964. He graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1968 and did his psychiatric residency at Massachusetts Mental Health Center from 1969 to 1973. During that time he earned his M.P.A. fromom the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He later completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School. He has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Sheppard Pratt Health System since 1992.
He has been a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and has served as Vice Chair and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Maryland. 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.
Sharfstein has been involved in several prominent issues facing psychiatry, including the medical ethics of psychiatrists assisting with detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects at facilities like the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He has spoken at length about the biopsychiatry controversy in his field. He has also expressed concern about conflict of interest that can occur between psychiatrists and drug companies.
His son Joshua Sharfstein, also a physician, was appointed by Barack Obama as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the FDA in 2009.