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Dr.
Eisenberg received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1946)
and took his internship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
He served for two years as Captain in the Army Medical Corps and then
completed a residency in psychiatry at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt
Hospital (1952) in Baltimore and a Fellowship in Child Psychiatry at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital under Professor Leo Kanner (1954). He became
Chief of Child Psychiatry at Hopkins in 1961 and moved to Harvard in
1967 as Chief of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General hospital. In
1980, he became Chair of the Department of Social Medicine and Health
Policy. In July of 1993, Dr. Leon Eisenberg reached Emeritus status
at Harvard Medical School but continues to work full time.
He has served as consultant to the Division of Mental Health at the
World Health Organization in Geneva in multiple capacities since 1964.
He chaired the Scientific Group on Stress, Lifestyle and the Prevention
of Disease in Sofia, Bulgaria (1981), the Working Group on Human Ecology
and Health in Metepec, Mexico (1982), and the Scientific Group on the
Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, Geneva (1989). He participated in
the Consultation Group for the Formulation of an Action Plan for Child
Mental Health in Montevideo, Uruguay (1991), the Joint Meeting with
the International School of Neurological Sciences in Venice, Italy (1993)
and the Task Force on Global Action for the Improvement of Mental Health
Care, Geneva (1994).
He is the recipient of honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University
of Manchester in the UK (1973) and the University of Massachusetts in
the U.S. (1991). He has received the Theobald Smith Award of Albany
Medical College (1979), the Aldrich (1980) and Dale Richmond (1989)
Awards from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Samuel T. Orton
Award (1980) of Orton Society, the Special Presidential Commendation
(1992) and the Agnes Purcell McGavin Award for Prevention (1994) of
the American Psychiatric Association, the distinguished Alumnus Award
of the University of Pennsylvania (1992), the Camille Cosby Award of
the Judge Baker Children's Center (1994), the Thomas W. Salmon Medal
of the New York Academy of Medicine (1995), the Blanche F. Ittleson
Memorial Award of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (1996),
and the Mumford Award of the School of Public Health at Columbia University
(1996). He has received the 1996 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat prize for
outstanding contributions to mental health from the Institute of Medicine.
In 2003, he received an Award for Distinguished Contribution to Public Policy from the Society for Research in Child Development, a Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and the Walshe McDermott Medal of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academies. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Greek Society of Neurology and Psychiatry,
of the Ecuadorian Academy of Neuroscience, and of the Royal College
of Psychiatrists (UK).
He has published widely: more than 250 articles in refereed journals,
130 chapters in books, and nine edited books. The most recent books
he edited or co-edited are: World Mental Health: Problems and Priorities
in Low-Income Countries (Oxford University Press, 1995); The Best Intentions:
Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families (National
Academy Press, 1995); The Implications of Genetics for Health Professional
Education. (Macy Foundation, 1999); Bridging Disciplines in the Brain,
Behavioral, and Clinical Sciences (National Academy Press, 2000).
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