Background
Plaut, Eric Alfred was born on November 16, 1927 in New York City. Son of Alfred and Margaret (Blumenfeld) Plaut.
Plaut, Eric Alfred was born on November 16, 1927 in New York City. Son of Alfred and Margaret (Blumenfeld) Plaut.
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1949; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1953.
Intern, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1953-1954;
psychiatric resident, Eastern State Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1954-1955;
psychiatric resident, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, Boston, 1956-1957;
consultant psychiatrist, Massachusetts Department Corrections, 1957;
fellow student health psychiatry, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1958;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, Berkeley, 1958-1974;
staff psychiatrist, Kaiser Hospital, Oakland, California, 1958-1962;
staff psychiatrist, Cowell Memorial Hospital, University of California, Berkeley, 1958-1962;
consultant psychiatrist, Bureau Indian Affairs, Department Interior, 1967-1968;
program chief, Berkeley Mental Health Services, 1968-1971;
deputy commissioner, Indiana Department Mental Health, Indianapolis, 1974-1976;
commissioner, Connecticut Department Mental Health, Hartford, 1976-1981;
professor, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1981-1993;
professor emeritus, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, since 1994;
assistant clinical professor psychiatry, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, 1958-1974;
associate clinical professor psychiatry, U. Indiana Medical School, Indianapolis, 1975-1976;
clinical professor psychiatry, U. Connecticut Medical School, Farmington, 1978-1981;
clinical professor psychiatry, Yale University Medical School, 1979-1981. Consultant Assembly Science Advisory Council, California Legislature, 1970. Chairman Bay Area region California Conference Local Mental Health Dirs., 1970-1971.
General partner Vanguard Investments, Berkeley, 1971-1978.
Board of directors American Civil Liberties Union, Berkeley, 1960-1965. Member task force on access and barrier President's Commision on Mental Health, 1977. Member psychiatry panel Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee, 1979-1981.
Board directors National Association State Mental Health Program Dirs., 1978-1981. With United States Navy, 1944-1946. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (consultant task force on government relations 1973-1976, Chairman of Commission public information 1975-1976, member committee certified in administrative psychiatry 1979-1982, chairman task force on problems of Americans overseas 1984-1988, chairman task force on joint meeting with German Psychiatric Society, 1989-1990).
Member Northern California Psychiatric Society (Chairman of Commission law and legislation 1968-1972, federal legislation representative 1972-1974, councillor 1972-1973, president-elect 1973-1974, Chairman of Commission on international abuse of psychiatry 1997-1998), California Med.Assn. (alternate delegate 1968-1971), Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association (chairman mental health committee 1972).
Married Eloine Raab, September 5, 1976.