Background
Altshuler, Kenneth Z. was born on April 11, 1929 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Altie (Freedman) Altshuler.
Altshuler, Kenneth Z. was born on April 11, 1929 in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. Son of Jacob and Altie (Freedman) Altshuler.
Bachelor, Cornell Univercity, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, U. Buffalo, 1952; Doctor of Science (honorary), Gallaudet College, 1972.
Intern, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1952-1953;
resident, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, 1955-1958;
assistant in psychiatry, Columbia University, 1958-1959;
instructor, Columbia University, 1959-1963;
research associate, Columbia University, 1963-1967;
assistant clinical professor, Columbia University, 1967-1971;
associate clinical professor, Columbia University, 1971-1975;
professor, Columbia University, 1975-1977;
training analyst, Columbia University Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research, 1969-1977;
project director, Essential Aspects of Deafness, 1972-1976;
project director, Trauma and Sleep Physiology, 1975-1977;
Stanton Sharp professor, chairman psychiatry, University Texas-Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, since 1977;
training analyst, New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, 1979-1986;
training analyst, Dallas Psychoanalytic Institute, Texas, since 1986. Chief of deafness unit Rockland Eastern State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, 1966-1977. Consultant to National Institutes of Health.
Director American Board Psychiatry and Neurology, since 1990, president,1996. Member National Board Medical Examiners, 1986-1989, chairman Part II psychiatry committee, 1988-1989.
Member governing board Texas School for the Deaf, 1986-1990. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1953-1955. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (certified of achievement board hospital psychiatry, certified of significant achievement for deafness program, New York State, 1976, for Mental Health Connections program, 1995), American College Psychiatrists, American College Psychoanalysts.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, American Psychoanalytic Association, Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (Merit award 1965), Texas Medical Society, Dallas County Medical Society, American Psychopathol. Association, Association Dirs.Med. Student Education in Psychiatry (founder, vice president 1976-1977), American Association Chairman Depts.
Psychiatry (president 1990-1991), Southern Association Research Psychiatry (president-elect 1992-1993, president 1993-1994).
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Married Gloria Seigel, June 14, 1952 (divorced 1981). Children: Steven, Lori, Dara. Married Ruth Collins Sharp, December 5, 1987.
