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Stephen M. Goldfinger, MD is a community psychiatrist whose career has focused on the treatment and rehabilitation of the most seriously disabled psychiatric patients. Dr. Goldfinger trained at Harvard College, Yale Medical School, and did his psychiatric residency at the university of California, San Francisco/Mt. Zion Hospital. During his twelve years in San Francisco, he served as the Director of the Emergency, Outpatient and Inpatient Services at San Francisco General Hospital and as the Mental Health Director of SF Health Care for the Homeless. He left San Francisco as an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF to move to Boston in 1988. |
Dr. Goldfinger has been an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the Clinical Director of the Massachusetts mental health Center (Harvard's largest public psychiatry program) and the Principal Investigator of a $13 million grant examining models of housing for homeless individuals with severe mental illness. He is recently moved to New York, where he is the Vice Chair of Psychiatry at the State University of New York, Health Science Center, Brooklyn and oversees the clinical services at Kings County Hospital, the University Hospital and the department's outpatient clinics.Dr. Goldfinger is a national expert on homelessness, HIV infection and mental illness. he is the author or editor of over 100 books, monographs, journal articles and abstracts, and on the editorial boards of numerous publications. He is an extremely active figure in a number of professional organizations, and has served as Chair of the APA's Committee on Chronic Mental Illness, Committee on Poverty, Homelessness and Psychiatric Disorders and in 1996, chaired the Institute on Psychiatric Services. He is on the Boards of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, and the American Association of Emergency Psychiatrists as well. Steve's entire career has focused on providing services to the most severely disenfranchised and disaffiliated populations. He is a tireless advocate for the most severely ill of our patients... serving as an active member of the Alliance for Mentally Ill (where he is the clinician who covers their annual meeting) and in 1996, was a co-writer of a full-length documentary "I'm Still Here: The Truth About Schizophrenia" soon to be shown on national television. |
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