Academic Title:
Professor Emeritus
Primary Appointment:
Psychiatry
Additional Title:
Project Director, HELPERS-PRO Professionalism Project
Location:
110 S Paca, 4N149
Phone (Primary):
(410) 328-2132
Fax:
(410) 328-7096
Education and Training
I am a graduate of Harvard College, Class of 1957 (AB); Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD 1961); internship at Strong Memorial/Rochester Municipal Hospitals (1962); Residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital/New York State Psychiatric Institute (1965) and the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center (1971).
Biosketch
John A. Talbott, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Founding Director of the Professionalism Project, University of Maryland School of Medicine, is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Editor-Emeritus of Psychiatric Services, past president of the American Association of Chairmen of Departments of Psychiatry, past president of the American Psychiatric Association (1984-85) and former vice president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has published twenty books and two hundred articles about mental health services, public policy and the chronic mentally ill.
Research/Clinical Keywords
Chronic mental illness Mental Health Policy Writing and Editing
Highlighted Publications
By Dr. Talbott
Talbott JA: The Death of the Asylum: A Critical Study of the State Hospital, Grune & Stratton, NYC, 1978.
Hales RE, Yudofsky SC, Talbott JA (editors): The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry, APPI, Washington 1984 (1st edition).
Talbott JA, Hales RE (editors: Textbook of Administrative Psychiatry: New Concepts for a Changing Behavioral Health System, APPI, Washington, 2001 (2nd edition)
About Dr. Talbott
Lamb HR: The Perspective of John Talbott: New Directions for Mental Health Services #37, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1988 (in which key early papers are reprinted).
Goldman HH: Special Issue: Tribute to John A. Talbott, M.D., editor, Hospital and Community Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services 1981-2004, Psychiatric Services 55:1089-1191, 2004, in which key later papers are reprinted, commented on and books are re-reviewed.
Awards and Affiliations
1968 Bronze Star, United States Army
1975-1985 Best Doctors, New York Magazine (during the Cornell Years)
1980 Michael Peters Lecturer, Penn Foundation, Sellersville, Pennsylvania
1981 Human Service Award of the Mental Health Association of the Bronx and Manhattan
1981 Samuel B. Kutash Memorial Lecture, Essex County Mental Health Association, New York
1982 Nolan DC Lewis Award for Outstanding Contributions to Mental Health, Carrier Foundation, New Jersey
1984 Community Access, New York City, New York
1985-Present Best Docs, Baltimore Magazine (during the U. Maryland Years)
1985 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Award for Distinguished Service
1985 Herman A. Dickel Memorial Lectureship, University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon
1985 Andromeda Hispano Mental Health Center Certificate, Washington, D.C.
1985 Maine DMH & Maine Psychiatric Association for “Energetic Leadership and Advocacy on Behalf of Persons With Chronic Mental Illness and Their Families.
1985 Bronze Medal, 28th Annual International Film & TV Festival of New York for “In the Absence of Angels – A Report on the Homeless Mentally Ill.”
1986 American Psychiatric Association Administrative Psychiatry Award
1986 Arthur P. Noyes Memorial Lecture, Norristown State Hospital, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
1987 Herbert S. Ripley Lecture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
1987 Joseph B. Skobba Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
1987 Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Maryland, Award for National Leadership in Advocating for Quality Systems of Care
1990 Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Florida.
1992 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Exemplary Psychiatrist Award
1993 Lawrence Kolb Award, Middletown, New York
1993 World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation, 1st Gralnick Foundation Lecture
1994 Excellence in Print Award (Silver) for the APPI Textbook of Psychiatry, Washington, DC
1995 St. Luke's House Community Service Award
1995 Speaker, 25th Anniversary of the Division of Community Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1995-7 National Alliance for the Mentally Ill [NAMI], Exemplary Psychiatrist Award
1996 The Romanian League for Mental Health, Diploma, Bucharest, Romania
1997 The First Annual Samuel M. Smith Academic Lecture in Psychiatry, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1997 American Psychiatric Association Arnold L. Van Ameringen Award in Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Washington, DC
1998 Herman A. Dickel Lectureship, Oregon Psychiatric Association, Portland
2001 NAMI-MD Lifetime Service Award, Linthicum, MD
2002 Outstanding Contributions and Leadership in the Field of Administrative Psychiatry, AAPA, Philadelphia, PA
2003 American Psychiatric Association, Special Presidential Commendation, San Francisco, CA.
2005-2006 Best Doctors in America
2006 Nancy C.A. Roeske, M.D., Certificate for Excellence in Medical Student Education of the American Psychiatric Association.
2007 William S. Hall Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Psychiatry, University of South Carolina, Columbia S.C.
2007 Honorary Staff, Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore MD
2008-9 University of Maryland School of Medicine Class of 2010 Teaching Commendation
2010 National Gold Humanism Honor Society member
In the News
An Advocate Who Doesn’t Give Up – A Profile of John A. Talbott MD, Anne B. Brown, editor, NARSAD Research Newsletter 13:3-5, 2001. http://www.narsad.org/news/newsletter/pdf/NarsadNewsletter_Fall2001.pdf
A Tribute to John A. Talbott, M.D., Howard H. Goldman MD, PhD and Donald Hammersley MD, Psychiatric Services 55:1089, 2004
http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/55/10/1089?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=Goldman&fulltext=Talbott&searchid=1130183815544_2327&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&journalcode=ps
Are Doctors People Too? Hannah Feldman, Baltimore Magazine 154-157, 208, 210, 212 http://www.baltimoremagazine.net/
Med School Sees 'Professionalism' Key to Training Better Doctors: A former APA president advocates for professionalism in medical education and tackles curriculum reform. Lynne Lamberg, Psychiatric News August 3, 2007, p 3 – online at http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/15/17
Professional Activity
American Association of Community Mental Health Center Psychiatrists, Founding Member 1984
American Association of Psychiatric Administrators, Member 1970, President 1985-86
American Association of Social Psychiatry, Fellow 1985
American College of Mental Health Administration, Founding Fellow 1978
American College of Psychiatry, Fellow 1980-2012
American Medical Association, 1965-
American Psychiatric Association, Member 1965-, Fellow 1972-, President 1984-85, Life Fellow 1999-, Distinguished Life Fellow 2003-, 50 year member 2015-
Baltimore City Medical Society 1985-
Baltimore District of Columbia Society for Psychoanalysis 1986-
Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry 1977-2013, Chair, Committee on Psychiatry and Community 1982-1986, Board of Directors 1986-1989
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland 1986-
Mental Health Association of Metropolitan Baltimore, Inc. 1985-
New York Academy of Medicine, Fellow 1976
New York Psychiatric Society 1983-
Southern Psychiatric Association 1985-
Vidonian Club 1984-, Secretary-Treasurer 1989-1991, 1999-