JohnAdamFromsonMD

Summary

• John A. Fromson, MD, is vice chair for community psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is also President-elect of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and Co-editor of American Society of Addiction Psychiatry (ASAM) Weekly. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in psychiatry, child psychiatry, and addiction psychiatry. His clinical and research activities focus on issues relating to physician and medical student health, professional development, and patient safety. He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Council on Addiction Psychiatry, past chair of the APA Committee on Physician Health, Illness and Impairment, and was the founding director and served as president of Physician Health Services, a national model in identifying, monitoring, and guiding the recovery of physicians and medical students with substance use disorders and mental and physical illness. He is also chair of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry's Group on Physician Health, and past president of the Federation of State Physician Health Programs. He was elected Class A Trustee of the General Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc. (AA). Dr. Fromson is also past president of the Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors. For his work in the areas of patient safety and physician and medical student health, Dr. Fromson is the recipient of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society's Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Advancement of the Profession. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Fromson twice received the Harvard Medical School Excellence in Tutoring Award. He received the Distinguished Clinician Award from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard Medical School Class of 2017 Excellence in Clinical Instruction Award.