Edward John Khantzian

Background

Khantzian, Edward John was born on May 26, 1935 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Stephen and Nuvart Khantzian.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Boston University, 1958. Doctor of Medicine, Albany Medical College,1963.

Career

Intern, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence,1963-1964. Resident Massachusetts Mental Health Center-Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1964-1967. Practice medicine specializing in adult psychiatry, since 1967, specializing in addiction psychiatry, Haverhill and Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1973.

Chief psychiatric consultation service Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1967-1971, director drug treatment program, 1971-1974, associate director department psychiatry, 1976-1980, special assistant to director, 1980-1982, director departmental liaison, 1982-1985, principal psychiatrists for addictions, since 1985, president medical staff, 1983-1984. director drug treatment services Cambridge-Somerville Mental Health and Retardation Center, 1974-1976, associate director clinical services, 1976-1980.

Program director 1978-1995, instructor psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1967-1973, assistant professor, 1973-1978, associate professor, 1978-1995, clinical professor, 1995. Member Drug Rehabilitation Advisory Board Commonwealth Massachusetts, 1973-1978, chairman, 1976-1978.

Achievements

• Edward John Khantzian has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist, psychoanalyst by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to major Medical Corps, United States Army, 1967-1970. Diplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (consultant committee drug abuse 1984-1986.

Member Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Felix and Helen Deutsch prize 1973), Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Massachusetts Medical.Soc.

(Chairman, Board Of Directors Physicians Health Svc., Incorporated. 1995), American Academy.Psychiatrists in Alcoholism and Addictions (vice president 1989-1991, president 1993-1995), American College Psychoanalysts, Group for Advancement Psychiatry (Chairman of Commission on alcoholism and addictions 1986-1991), North Essex Mental Health Association (director), 1st vice president 1975-1977).

Association editor American Journal of Addiction, 1989. Member editorial review board Journal Substance Abuse Treatment, since 1984, American Journal Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 1986.

Connections

Married Carol Ann DeAndrus, May 17, 1959. Children: Nancy Jo, SusanJoyce, Jane Elizabeth, John Stephen.

Father:

John Stephen

Mother:

Nuvart Khantzian

Spouse:

Carol Ann DeAndrus

child:

John Stephen Khantzian

child:

SusanJoyce Khantzian

child:

Jane Elizabeth Khantzian

child:

Nancy Jo Khantzian