Post date: Jul 31, 2011 8:0:8 AM
Dr. Fink, a prominent psychiatrist, psychoanalyst. and speaker. He is a past-president of the American Psychiatric Association and the founder and current president of the Leadership Council.
Dr. Fink is a Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University School of Medicine and Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association's Task Force on Psychiatric Aspects of Violence. He has extensive leadership experience and is considered an expert in program development and enhancement. Dr. Fink has served as the president of numerous organizations including the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the American College of Psychiatrists, the National Association for Psychiatric Healthcare Systems, the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and the American Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry. He served as both Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein Medical Center and Associate Vice President of the Albert Einstein Healthcare Network. He founded and directed the Einstein Center for the Study of Violence and is a co-founder and past president of the Greater Philadelphia Health Care Congress.
Dr. Fink currently serves on a variety of committees having to do with issues of youth violence. He helped found the Children's Emotional Response Team in Philadelphia and chairs the Youth Homicide Subcommittee of the Philadelphia Youth Fatality Review Team. He also chairs the Philadelphia County Medical Society Subcommittee on Youth, and serves on the Board of the Philadelphia Health Management Corporation, and the Philadelphia Board of Health.
Dr. Fink is co-editor of the books, The Stigma of Mental Illness (American Psychiatric Press, 1992) and Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors (Haworth Press, 2002), and has authored of over 190 articles. He has been the recipient of a number of national awards including the APA's Vestermark Award and the Francis J. Braceland Award for Public Service. In 1999, the Philadelphia County Medical Society selected Dr. Fink as Physician of the Year.