Background
Docherty, John Patrick was born on September 8, 1944 in Brooklyn. Son of John Francis and Bernardine J. Docherty.
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John Patrick Docherty
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AB, Boston College, 1966; Doctor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Career
Intern, University of Pennsylvania Hospital, 1970-1971;
resident department psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, 1971-1974;
fellow neuropsychopharmacology branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland., 1974-1976;
chief special studies psychosocial treatment, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland., 1981-1982;
chief psychosocial treatments research, National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland., 1983-1985;
director psychiatric research, Yale-West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital., 1976-1978;
director education, Yale Psychiatric Institute, New Haven, 1978-1981;
chief schizophrenia unit, Yale Psychiatric Institute, New Haven, 1978-1979;
chief adolescent unit, Yale Psychiatric Institute, New Haven, 1979-1981;
medical director, Brookside Hospital, Nashua, N.H., 1985-1991;
executive medical director, Brookside Hospital, Nashua, N.H., 1991-1992;
senior vice president, national medical director, Psychiatric Hospital division National Medical Enterprises, Washington, 1992-1994;
professor clinical psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993-1995;
professor psychiatry, vice department chairman, Cornell Univercity Medical Center, White Plains, New York, since 1995. President N.E. Psychiatric Associations, 1985-1992. Consultant attending services Veterans Administration Hospital., Manchester, N.H., 1988-1992.
Clinical professor psychiatry Tufts U., Boston,1988-1994. Visiting professor Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U., Bethesda, Maryland., since 1986. Lectr.psychiatry Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1988.
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Membership
Commander United States Public Health Service, 1974-1976, 81-85. Member American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Academy Medical Dirs., Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, American College Psychiatrists, Association for Clinical Psychosocial Research (past president), Psychiatric Institutions American (Medical Director of Year 1989), National Association Private Psychiatric Hospitals (Presidential award for research 1990).
