Michael F. Myers, MD

Dr. Myers is the Vice-Chair of Medical Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. Until June 30, 2008 he was the Director of the Marital Therapy Clinic at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada and Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine. He graduated in medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and did residencies at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Wayne State University (Detroit General Hospital), and the University of British Columbia. Since completing his residency training in 1973 and until June 2008, he taught half-time and was in private practice half-time. He is board certified in Psychiatry by both the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.

Dr. Myers is the author of seven books: The Physician As Patient: A Clinical Handbook for Mental Health Professionals (with Glen Gabbard, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC, 2008); Touched By Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss (With Carla Fine, Gotham/Penguin Books, New York, 2006); The Handbook of Physician Health (with Larry Goldman and Leah Dickstein, American Medical Association, Chicago, 2000);.Intimate Relationships in Medical School: How to Make Them Work (Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks CA, 2000); How’s Your Marriage? A Book for Men and Women (American Psychiatric Press Inc., Washington, DC, 1998); Doctors’ Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions (Second Edition, Plenum, New York, 1994); Men and Divorce (Guilford, New York, 1989). His publications also include over 150 articles, book chapters, letters, book reviews and 8 videotapes covering a range of topics: marital therapy, men and reproductive technology, divorce, sexual assault of women and men, AIDS, the stigma of psychiatric illness, gender issues in training and medical practice, the treatment of medical students and physicians, boundary crossing in the doctor-patient relationship, and suicide.

Regarding editorial experience, Dr Myers has served on the editorial boards of several medical journals. He just completed a six year term on the Editorial Board of American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. Currently, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Psychiatric News, the official newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association.

Dr. Myers has received awards for excellence in teaching from the University of British Columbia, the Dr. Nancy Roeske Award from the American Psychiatric Association, the Distinguished Member Lecture Award and the RO Jones Memorial Lecture Award from the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the Douglas Utting Award from McGill University, the Distinguished Leader in Medicine Award from Dalhousie University and a number of other named lectureships in Canada and the United States. From 1997 - 2000, he served on the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association and from 2000 – 2001 he was President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He is a Distinguished Fellow of both the American and Canadian Psychiatric Associations.

Dr. Myers is a specialist in physician health. Until recently, he served on the Advisory Board of the Center for Physician Health of the Canadian Medical Association and he was the founder and Co-Chair of the Section on Physician Health of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. He is a member of the Committee on Physician Health, Illness, and Impairment of the American Psychiatric Association and has produced an educational videotape for medical students, physicians, and their families called “Physicians Living With Depression” (American Psychiatric Press Inc., Washington, DC, 1996). His videotape “When Physicians Die By Suicide: Reflections of Those They Leave Behind” won the 1999 APA Psychiatric Services Award. For his advocacy efforts, Dr. Myers received the 2002 CAIR (Canadian Association of Interns and Residents) Resident Well-Being Award. In September 2008, he was awarded a President's Commendation by the Canadian Psychiatric Association for his pioneering work and advocacy in the field of physician mental health.

Dr. Myers lectures widely throughout North America and Europe on these subjects.