Background
Frazier, Shervert Hughes was born on June 12, 1921 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Son of Shervert Hughes and Mary (Lowman) Frazier.
Frazier, Shervert Hughes was born on June 12, 1921 in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. Son of Shervert Hughes and Mary (Lowman) Frazier.
Student, Baylor University, 1936-1939; Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, Chicago, 1941; Doctor of Medicine, University Illinois, Chicago, 1943; Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Illinois, 1986; Master of Science in Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, 1957; certified psychoanalytic medicine, Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1963; Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1972.
Intern, University of Illinois Research and Ednl. Hospital, 1943-1944;
fellow internal medicine, Mayo Foundation, 1951-1952;
fellow psychiatry, assistant to staff, Mayo Foundation, 1954-1956;
private practice, Harrisburg, Illinois, 1946-1950, 53;
administrator, Harrisburg Medical Foundation, 1948-1951;
consultant section psychiatry, Mayo Clinic
consultant section psychiatry, St. Marys Hospital, also Methodist Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, 1956-1958;
chief research scientist internal medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1958-1961;
deputy director, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1968-1972;
assistant attending psychiatrist, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, 1958-1963;
director inpatient consultant service in psychiatry, 1961-1962;
later attending psychiatrist. Director, Houston Psychiatric Institute, 1962-1965;
psychiatrist in chief, Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, 1962-1968;
consultant, Veterans Administration Hospital., Houston, 1962-1968;
senior attending psychiatrist, Methodist Hospital, Houston, 1962-1968;
chief Executive officer, psychiatrist-in-chief, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1972-1984;
director National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, Maryland., 1984-1986;
general director, psychiatrist-in-chief, McLean Hospital, 1986-1988;
associate in psychiatry, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical
Joske assistant professor psychiatry, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1958-1962;
professor, Columbia College Physicians and Surgical, 1968-1972;
professor psychiatry, department chairman, Baylor University College Medicine, 1962-1968;
professor psychiatry, Harvard, Boston, since 1972.
Consultant Rice U., 1963-1968. Commissioner Mental Health and Mental Retardation for Texas, 1965-1967. President VI World Congress Psychiatry.
Member visiting committee Yale University Medical School, 1977-1981.
Served as officer, Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946, PTO. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine (chairman Salmon lecture committee, trustee, member county since 1987). Member American Medical Association (council continuing physician education 1976-1981), Massachusetts Medical Association, Middlesex County Medical Society, American College Psychiatrists (regent 1972, vice president 1977-1979, president 1979-1981), American Psychiatric Association (chairman program committee 1965-1968, chairman joint commission public affairs, secretary 1983-1985), World Psychiatric Association (Vice-President 1977-1984), Central Neuropsychiat. Association, Association Research Nervous and Mental Disease (president 1972, Chairman of the Board 1976-1978), Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Gloria Barger, July 20, 1947. Children: Elise, Alan, Rosalie, Stephen.