Background
Sacks, Herbert Simeon was born on November 29, 1926 in New York City. Son of Maxwell Lawrence and Anne (Edelstein) Sacks.
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Herbert Simeon Sacks
Edit Profileeducator consultant psychiatrist
Education
Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Dickinson College, 1948; Doctor of Medicine Cornell Univercity, 1952.
Career
Clinical associate, Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, New Haven, 1955-1963;
intern in pediatrics, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, 1952-1953;
junior assistant resident in psychiatry, Yale Psychiatric Institute, 1953-1954;
senior assistant resident in psychiatry, United States Public Health Service fellow, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, psychiatric out patient department, 1954-1955;
United States Public Health Service fellow in child psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center, 1955-1957;
clinical director, Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1957-1959;
consultant, Experiment in International Living, Putney, Vermont, 1962-1969;
senior consultant, United States Peace Corps, Washington, 1962-1969;
consultant, Agency for International Development, unites states department State, Office of Sahel, West Africa, 1974-1984;
consultant, Neurosci. Consultation Group, Grosse Point Farms, Michigan, 1984-1994;
clinical professor child and adolescent psychiatry, Child Study Center, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven. Co-investigator, co-director Senegal River pilot health research program, New Haven and West Africa, 1976-1978, co-investigator, co-director health sector, design team Senegal River integrated development project, 1981-1983;visiting lecturer Yale College, 1969-1971.
Member committee reviewers Department Commerce National Bureau Standards, Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, Washington, 1975-1977. Member Executive Committee National Commision on Confidentiality of Health Records, 1975-1980.
Achievements
Membership
Member Connecticut Juvenile Justice Commission, Hartford, 1975-1980. Board advisors Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1980-1985. Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1944-1946.
PTO; Fellow American Medical Association, ACPO, American Psychiatric Association (trustee 1988-1994, vice president 1994-1996,president since 1997), American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, American Orthopsychiat. Association, American College Psychiatrists. Member Connecticut Psychiatric Society (president 1976-1977), Connecticut Council Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (president 1972-1973), World Federation for Mental Health, Phi Beta Kappa.
Interests
Connections
Married Helen Margery Levin, December 26, 1948. Children— Eric Livingston, Katharine Bird, Douglas Lowell, Russell Avery.
