StevenSSharfsteinMD

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine; President and CEO Sheppard Pratt Health System

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Office
6701 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21204
Phone+1 410-938-3150

Fax+1 410-938-3159
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Education & Training

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 1969 - 1973
Jacobi Medical CenterInternship, Transitional Year, 1968 - 1969
Albert Einstein College of MedicineClass of 1968

Certifications & Licensure

MD State Medical License 1973 - 2025
DC State Medical License 1982 - 2014
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

3 citations
Achieving health equity in US suicides: a narrative review and commentary.
Seth W Perry, Jacob C Rainey, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Ma-Li Wong, Julio Licinio, Steven S Sharfstein, Holly C Wilcox> ;BMC Public Health. 2022 Jul 15
From the Defense Health Board: Military Accessions and the Continuum of Mental Health Research.
Catherine A Zebrowski, Paul R Schaettle, Sonia A Alemagno, Brigid R McCaw, Alex B Valadka, Steven S Sharfstein, Stephanie A Reid-Arndt, Gregory H Gorman, Jeremy A Lazarus> ;Military Medicine. 2022 Oct 29
4 citations
How to Mitigate the Mental Health Care Consequences of the COVID-19 Financial Crisis.
Alison Cuellar, Tami L. Mark, Steven S. Sharfstein, Haiden A. Huskamp> ;Psychiatric Services. 2020 Sep 29
What Shaped My Career.
Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Psychiatric Services. 2019 Nov 1
6 citations
Widespread emergency department access block: a human rights issue in Australia?
Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Richard O'Reilly, Steven S. Sharfstein, David J. Castle> ;Australasian Psychiatry. 2019 Feb 1
Can deinstitutionalisation contribute to exclusion
Tarun Bastiampillai, Stephen Allison, Richard O'Reilly, Julio Licinio, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Lancet. 2018 Jun 2
6 citations
Bedless Psychiatry-Rebuilding Behavioral Health Service Capacity.
Dominic A. Sisti, Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;JAMA Psychiatry. 2018 May 1
38 citations
When should governments increase the supply of psychiatric beds
Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Julio Licinio, Doris A Fuller, Niranjan Bidargaddi, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Molecular Psychiatry. 2018 Apr 1
1 citations
Firearm lobbying, suicide prevention, and the Trump presidency
Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;The Lancet. Psychiatry. 2017 May 1
14 citations
Increasing the Use of Lithium and Clozapine in US Suicide Prevention.
Tarun Bastiampillai, Steven S. Sharfstein, Stephen Allison> ;JAMA Psychiatry. 2017 Apr 1
22 citations
Psychiatric hospital beds: an Orwellian crisis.
Peter Tyrer, Steven S. Sharfstein, Richard O'Reilly, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai> ;Lancet. 2017 Jan 28
45 citations
Increase in US suicide rates and the critical decline in psychiatric beds
Tarun Bastiampillai, Steven S. Sharfstein, Stephen Allison> ;JAMA. 2016 Dec 27
AOT and Long-Term Use of Antipsychotics.
Steven S. Sharfstein, Jeffrey A. Lieberman, John A. Talbott> ;Psychiatric Services. 2016 Jul 1
2 citations
Money and Mental Health.
Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Psychiatric Services. 2015 Dec 1
1 citations
Ethics, Interrogation, and the American Psychiatric Association
Paul Summergrad, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2015 Aug 1
1 citations
Despair or hope: the future of mental health service delivery in the United States.
Steven S. Sharfstein> ;The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 2015 Apr 1
9 citations
Fixing the troubled mental health system.
Lloyd I. Sederer, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;JAMA. 2014 Sep 24
7 citations
Status of stigma, 2012.
Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Psychiatric Services. 2012 Oct 1
Health care reform: a primer for psychiatrists.
Sharfstein, S.S.> ;Am J Psychiatry. 2012-02-01
7 citations
Evaluating the workload of on-call psychiatry residents: which activities are associated with sleep loss?
Brian K Cooke, Erinn O Cooke, Steven S. Sharfstein> ;Academic Psychiatry. 2012 Jan 1
Integrated care.
Sharfstein, S.S.> ;Am J Psychiatry. 2011 Nov
Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work.
> ;Psychiatr Serv. 2011-11-01
Inpatient care in the 21st century: who needs it?--in reply.
> ;Psychiatr Serv. 2011-05-01
Enhancing Quality and Reducing Costs in a Combined Training Program: The University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Experience
M. Philip Luber, Steven S. Sharfstein, Anthony F. Lehman, John A. Talbott> ;Academic Psychiatry. 2011 Mar 1
65 citations
Inpatient Psychiatric Care in the 21st Century: The Need for Reform
Ira D. Glick, Steven S. Sharfstein, Harold I. Schwartz> ;Psychiatric Services. 2011 Feb 1
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Press Mentions

The Solution to America’s Mental Health Crisis Already ExistsOctober 4th, 2022
Marc Howard Zisselman MdJanuary 5th, 2021
Q&A with Former APA President Dr Steven Sharfstein: Suicides and Psychiatric BedsJanuary 27th, 2020
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