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Kenneth Minkoff, MD is Medical Director of Choate Integrated
Behavioral Care in Woburn, MA, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard.
He has been a board member of AACP since 1990, Chair of the Health Care Systems Committee
since 1993, and has been actively involved in development of the AACP guidelines for
medical leadership in systems of care, managed care formulary guidelines, quality managed
standards of care for PSMC , and LOCUS. Dr. Minkoff views community psychiatry as an
avocation and a passion. He has been director of a community mental health center, and
chief of psychiatry in a community general hospital, prior to his current position. His
major areas of expertise are dual diagnosis and public sector managed care. He has written
extensively on integrated treatment approaches for dual diagnosis, including co-editing
(with Robert Blake) Dual Diagnosis of Major Mental Illness and Substance Disorder
(1991), and has recently co-edited (with David Pollack) Managed Mental Health Care in
the Public Sector: A Survival Manual (1997). Dr. Minkoff is a long-standing member of
the Committee on Community Psychiatry of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, and was
Committee Chair for the publication of A Resident's Guide to the Treatment of People
with Chronic Mental Illness (1993). He is also a certified addiction psychiatrist, a
member of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatrists, and a representative to the
Substance Abuse Advisory Committee of the National Council of Community Behavioral Health
Providers. |
