Textbook of Community Psychiatry

Wesley E. Sowers, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is the Director of the Center for Public Service Psychiatry and its associated Fellowship Program at Western Psychiatric Hospital. He is board certified in Adult Psychiatry with subspecialty certifications in Addiction, Administrative and Community Psychiatry. He is a Past President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry and has served on the Board of Directors of that organization since 1988. He has also been on the Board of the American Association of Psychiatric Administrators since 1999. He has served as Co-Chair of the Mental Health Services Committee of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry since 2009. From 2008 to 2016 he was co-director of the SAMHSA sponsored Recovery to Practice curriculum development project for psychiatry. Dr. Sowers is a graduate of Brown University and Northwestern University Medical School. He completed residencies at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry in New York City. Clinically, he has extensive experience in the provision of treatment and services to special populations such as homeless men and women, people with criminal records, LGBTQ individuals, and people with substance use disorders. He has published several articles, editorials, and book chapters on topics related to his clinical activities and health care systems management. He was the chief architect of the Level of Care Utilization System (LOCUS) and its counterpart for children and adolescents (CALOCUS), instruments widely used to guide service intensity decisions. Hunter L. McQuistion, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and Senior Attending Psychiatrist at NYU Langone Health. He is Medical Director of the SAMHSA-funded Engagement, Treatment, and Recovery (EnTRy) Program at Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, which provides FQHC-based multidisciplinary and recovery-oriented services to underserved Brooklyn residents experiencing serious mental health challenges. He recently completed a successful and satisfying stewardship as Chief of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health at NYC Health+Hospitals|Gotham|Gouverneur. Among other roles in systems management and clinical policy, Dr. McQuistion has also served at a high level in the City of New York Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. As an academic community psychiatrist, he has focused much of his career on program development and scholarship concerning people who experience homelessness and mental illnesses, but has also turned energies to other underserved populations, including interest in efforts on racial and ethnic issues as related to clinical competencies. Spanning roles in advocacy, administration, epidemiological and services research, and education, Dr. McQuistion has published and presented widely.¿He offers program and educational consultation as well as providing direct clinical services. Among other accomplishments, Dr. McQuistion is a Past President of the American Association for Community Psychiatry, is recognized as an Exemplary Psychiatrist by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. ¿ Jules M. Ranz, MD is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia. He was director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship at NYS Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center from 1992 to 2017 and continues as a mentor to many of the over 300 psychiatrists who completed the fellowship. The Public Psychiatry Fellowship is generally acknowledged to be the premier program of its kind in the country, supported by three published surveys of its alumni. In the past fifteen years, over twenty other public/community psychiatry fellowships have been creat...