PaulSummergradMD

Summary

• Paul Summergrad, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM). From 2004-23 he was the Dr. Frances S. Arkin professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and professor of psychiatry and medicine at TUSM and psychiatrist-in-chief at Tufts Medical Center. In 2014-15, Dr. Summergrad served as the 141st president of the American Psychiatric Association. He currently serves as Secretary for Finances and a member of the Executive Committee of the World Psychiatric Association.
  
  An international leader in medical psychiatric disorders and care, Dr. Summergrad has published extensively with over 150 peer review publications, book chapters and other communications. He has edited three books: Integrated Care in Psychiatry, Primary Care Psychiatry, and the Textbook of Medical Psychiatry. He served on the editorial boards of World Psychiatry and Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry
  
  He was a member of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 Steering Committee of the American Psychiatric Association. He chaired the work group of the APA board on the role of psychiatry in health care reform, which commissioned the Milliman report on the total health care costs associated with psychiatric illness. He is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, the American College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians - Edinburgh, and has received numerous other awards and honors. He received the Distinguished Faculty Award from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2015 and the Leadership Award from the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry in 2018. He received the Outstanding Psychiatrist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society and, in 2020, received the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, their highest honor.