Background
Henschel, Leonard Philip was born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Joseph and Leah Rose (Cooper) Henschel.
Henschel, Leonard Philip was born in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Joseph and Leah Rose (Cooper) Henschel.
AB, Syracuse University, 1950; Maryland, New York State College Medicine, 1954.
Assistant adjunct pediatric psychiatry, Lenox Hill Hospital, 1959-1961;
consultant psychiatrist, Youth Houses, City of New York, 1959-1965;
clinical assistant consultant neuropsychiatrist, Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 1960-1966;
clin assistant neuropsychiatrist, Flushing (New York) Hospital, 1959-1967;
associate attending neuropsychiatrist, Flushing (New York) Hospital, 1967-1981;
chief child and adolescent psychiatry, Flushing Hospital Mental Health Clinic, 1967-1981;
consultant psychiatrist, St. Mary's Hospital for Children, Bayside, New York, 1973-1976;
senior psychiatrist, Lifeline Child Development Center, Queens Village, New York, 1977-1984;
consultant psychiatrist, Queensboro Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Jamaica, New York, 1984-1988;
private practice psychiatry, Kew Gardens, New York, since 1960. Consultant New York Shipping Association-International Longshoreman's Association, Pension Trust Fund, since 1961. Advisory county Queens Children's Hospital, since 1973.
Arrangements chairman Schonfeld lecture series New York Society Adolescent Psychiatry, 1974-1979. Arrangements chairman Vth Pan-American Reunion for Study of Adolescence, 1979. Chair arrangements committee VIIth Pan American Forum for Study of Adolescence, 1984-1985.
Fellow American Psychiatric Association (chair referral committee Queens County district branch since 1985, commission on private practice since 1986), American Society Adolescent Psychiatry (life, executive county since 1989, editor-in-chief newsletter since 1989, chair county programs and meetings 1989-1994). Member Queens County Mental HealthSoc. (advising committee 1976), Queens County Psychiatric Society (president 1988-1990), New York Council Child Psychiatry, International Society Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Society Adolescent Psychiatry, American Orchid Society, Greater New York Orchid Society, American Psychiatric Association (patient review network since 1994).