Theodore A. Stern, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and the first endowed Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation at Harvard Medical School, and Psychiatrist and Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is the author of Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry, 6th Edition and Psychiatry for the Internist: An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America.

Dr. Stern received his medical degree from New York University and did his postgraduate work at Massachusetts General Hospital. During his 35+ years at MGH, he has focused his efforts at the interface of medicine and psychiatry as an award-winning teacher, clinician, clinical researcher and editor. His clinical interests include anxiety disorders, consultation psychiatry, and psychopharmacology.

Dr. Stern is the Director of the Office for Clinical Careers at MGH’s Center for Faculty Development, past president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the editor-in-chief of Psychosomatics. An author of more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters and the editor of many books, Dr. Stern has also led a highly successful writing course taken by many of the MGH faculty.

Dr. Stern has lectured nationwide on medical psychiatry and directed numerous postgraduate courses. He is a fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the APM, and has worked with the National Board of Medical Examiners on panels for standard-setting, item-modeling, and item-writing. On three occasions he has won the coveted “Best Teacher Award” from the graduating residents at the MGH/McLean Hospital Psychiatric Residency Training Program and he has received the Thomas P. Hackett Award from the APM (its highest honor).