Stephen Mark Goldfinger

Background

Goldfinger, Stephen Mark was born on May 15, 1951 in Brooklyn. Son of Bernard and Muriel (Scharfman) Goldfinger.

Education

AB, Harvard College, 1972; Doctor of Medicine, Yale Medical School, 1976.

Career

Intern, then resident, Mount Zion Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, 1976-1979; director psychiatric emergency services department psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, 1979-1982; director outpatient services department psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, 1982-1985; director inpatient services department psychiatry, San Francisco General Hospital, 1985-1988; assistant professor psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, 1980-1988; associate professor, University of California, San Francisco, 1988; associate clinical director, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1988-1991; acting clinical director, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1991-1995; assistant professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1988-1997; senior psychiatrist, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, 1994-1996; professor, vice department chairman psychiatry Health Sciences campus, State University of New York, Brooklyn, since 1997. Consultant in field; principal investigator National Institute of Mental Health Grant, Indiana Living versus Evolving Consumer Households for the Homeless Mentally Illinois.

Achievements

• Stephen Mark Goldfinger has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member San Francisco Mayors Task Force on Homeless, 1985-1988. Board directors Episcopal Sanctuary, San Francisco, 1985-1986. Member American Psychiatric Assn.Task Force on Homeless, Washington, 1983-1984, 1989-1992.

Member American Psychiatric Association (chair commission on chronically mentally ill 1989-1993, chair commission on homelessness since 1993, co-chair program committee 1988-1990), American Association General Hospital Psychiatrists (chair program committee 1984-1988), Hospital and Cmty. Psychiatry Institute (member program committee 1991-1998, chair 1996), Group Advancement Psychiatry, American Association Cmty. Psychiatrists (board directors since 1988), American Association Emergency Psychiatrists (board directors), American Board Psychiatry and Neurology (examiner).

Interests

• Avocations: gardening, cooking, traveling.

Connections

Life partner John M. Gibbons.

Father:

Bernard Goldfinger

Mother:

Muriel (Scharfman) Goldfinger