David Blau

Background

Blau, David was born on November 9, 1926 in Brooklyn.

Education

Bachelor, New York University, 1947; Doctor of Medicine, Boston University, 1951.

Career

Intern, Boston City Hospital, 1951-1952; resident in internal medicine, Boston City Hospital, 1952-1954, 56-58; clinical instructor psychiatry, Boston University Medical School, 1958-1964; assistant professor clinical psychiatry, Boston University Medical School, 1964-1971; senior clinical instructor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1961-1964; instructor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, 1966-1971; assistant clinical professor, Harvard Medical School, 1971-1984; instructor expert division, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 1969-1986; faculty, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1977. Lecturer and researcher in field. Assistant in psychiatry Boston Eastern State Hospital, 1953-1954, senior psychiatrist, 1956-1958.

Attending psychiatrist U. Hospital, Boston, 1961-1975. Assistant attending psychiatrist McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1965-1967, associate attending psychiatrist, 1967-1984. Director geriatric research project Boston University Medical school and Boston Eastern State Hospital, 1958-1963.

Director group training program Boston City Hospital Child Guidance Clinic, 1962-1969. Supervisor group therapy and individual psychotherapy Boston StateHosp., 1965-1968, clinical director psychiatry, 1964-1965. Supervisor group psychotherapy Boston University School Medical, 1960-1970.

Chairman family therapy committee and program McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1970-1977. Consultant geriatrics Jewish Family and Children's Svc., 1978-1994. Consultant utilization review Blue Cross-Blue Shield, 1983-1991, Medicare of Massachusetts, since 1983.

Consultant geriatric task force mental health planning project Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1960,mental health planning project, 1972. Member mayor's commission on aging, Boston, 1981.

Achievements

• David Blau has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Lieutenant United States Navy, 1954-1956. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life, Jack weinberg award in geriatric psychiatry 1998). Member American Geriatric Society, Massachusetts Medical Society (geriatricmedicine committee 1979-1991), Massachusetts Psychiatric Association, Massachusetts Geriatric Society (board directors since 1987), Boston Society Gerontologic Psychiatry (board directors since 1971, president 1970-1974, 78-82), Massachusetts Psychiatric Society (insurance and peer review committee 1983-1991, councillor 1986-1992, Outstanding Psychatrist award 1998), Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc.

(co-chair extension division 1974-1986, program committee 1989-1991, chairman insurance and peer review committee 1984-1987), Psi Chi Society, Alpha Omega Alpha. M C.