H. Steven Moffic, M.D.
Dr. Steven Moffic is currently a Professor with tenure in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine as well as the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Moffic completed medical school at Yale University in 1971, his psychiatry residency at the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 1975, and completed a fellowship at the Academician's Seminar in Isreal in 1984.
Dr. Moffic has received numerous awards including the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (1993), American Psychiatric Association Special Speaker's Award for Heroes of Public Psychiatry (2002), and was President of the American Association For Social Psychiatry (1998-2000). Just recently, Dr. Moffic was awarded the highest honor, the Distinguished Life Fellow Status of the American Psychiatric Association. As of January 1, 2010 he has been selected as the lead blogger for Psychiatric Times.
Educationally, Dr. Moffic has developed model educational programs on socio-cultural variables and managed behavioral healthcare.
Clinically, Dr. Moffic concentrates on the underserved, providing pro bono care whenever possible and necessary. His academic interests include psychiatric ethics, cultural psychiatry, ecopsychiatry, prison psychiatry and the nature of evil.
Scholarly, Dr. Moffic has approximately 500 publications and presentations. He currently writes a monthly ethics column, The Ethical Way for Clinical Psychiatry News, and a quarterly ethics column for Administrative Psychiatrist.
A few publications include:
1) Book "The Ethical Way: Challenges and Solutions for Managed Behavioral Healthcare" (Jossey-Bass, 1997)
2) Print/Audio/Video: Can Psychiatric Approaches Help to Address Global Warming?, Medscape General Medicine, 7/02/07
3) A Day in the Life of an Academic Psychiatrist – Hippocrates is Watching, Academic Psychiatry, 27:199-201, 2003
Dr. Moffic sees patients in the Campus Clinic and Behavioral Health Center at the Tosa Center and has a special interest in patients with adult attention deficit disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, refugees, and transgendered individuals.
Contact information:
Phone: (414)955-8906
E-mail: smoffic@mcw.edu