Background
Schiff, Sheldon Kirsner was born on September 29, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Albert and Judith (Kirsner) Schiff.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Sheldon Kirsner Schiff
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, New York University, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, University of Chicago, 1956.
Career
Intern, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, 1956-1957;
psychiatric resident, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1957-1960;
instructor psychiatry, Yale University School Medicine, New Haven, 1962-1963;
chief psychiatric resident, Grace-New Haven Hospital, 1959-1960;
Division Psychology, United States Army, Bad Kreuznach, Germany, 1960-1962;
assistant professor psychiatry, University of Illinois School Medicine, Chicago, 1963-1966;
associate professor psychiatry, University of Chicago, 1967-1971;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, Chicago, 1971-1998. Mental health instructor City New Haven Police Department, 1959. Co-founder and co-founder Woodlawn Metal Health Center, Chgo, 1963-1970.
Examiner New York.State Department Mental Hygiene, 1970. President Children's Center Learning Capacities, Chicago, 1970-1998. Director school intervention and training program department pyschiatry Chicago Medical School, 1970-1971, clinical professor psychiatry, 1974-1976.
Chief of psychiatry Downey (Illinois) Veterans Administration Hospital., 1973-1998. Consultant in field.
Achievements
Membership
Member Woodlawn Urban Progress Center Advisory Board, City of Chicago Committee Urban Opportunity, 1964, Greater Chicago Committee Rehabilitation Welfare Council Metropolitan Chicago, 1964-1966. Member systems analysis committee Illinois Mental Health Planning Board, Illinois State Department Mental Health, 1966-1967. Advisory health committee City ofChgo.
Commission Human Relations, 1966-1970. Chairman Service Agilysys Council on Woodlawn, 1967-1969. Served to captain United States Marine Corps, 1960-1962.
Fellow American Psychiatric Association (secretary task force on poverty 1968-1970), American Orthopsychiat. Association (member committee community mental health centers 1967-1971, children's mental health services committee 1968-1970), American Public Health Association. Member American Association of University Professors (president University of Chicago chapter 1967-1970, committee accrediting colls.and universities 1969-1971, ad hoc investigating committee U. Florida 1969), American Academy Political and Social Science, American Ednl.
Research Association, American School Health Association, New York. Academy Science, Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescholaire, United States National Committee Early Childhood Education, World Federation Mental Health, Phi Chi.
Connections
Married Louise Antoinette Latsis, June 29, 1957. 1child, Nicholas.
