Insight Matters
Winter, 2002

Candidate for OPA President-elect: Mark R. Munetz, M.D.

Biographical Sketch

• Psychiatric practice in academic and public settings since 1979:
  Chief Clinical Officer County of Summit Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board 1992-present.
  Clinical Director, Community Support Services 1991 -1992.
  Director of Psychiatric Ambulatory Services, University Hospitals of Cleveland 1990-1991.
  Public sector medical director positions University of Massachusetts School of Medicine 1986-1989.
  Schizophrenia outpatient clinic, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1979-1986.
• Education and training:
  B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1972.
  M.D. University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1976;
  Psychiatry residency, Lafayette Clinic, Detroit, Michigan 1976-1977;
  Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 1977-1979.
  Certificate, Mental Health Executive Leadership Program, Case Western Reserve University, 1998.
• Teaching:
  Director of Community Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine 1992-present.
  Professor of Psychiatry, NEOUCOM, 1998 - present.
  Full-time faculty positions at Case Western Reserve University, University of Massachusetts and University of Pittsburgh.
• APA:
  Elected Fellow 1994.
  Member APA Task Force on Consent to Voluntary Hospitalization, 1990-1992.
  Reviewer, DSM-IV Section on Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, 1992.
• OPA:
  Chair, Public Mental Health Committee 1994- present.
  Member of Public Mental Health Committee 1992- present.
  Founding member of the Ohio Coalition of Community Psychiatrists, an OPA affiliate.
  OPA Secretary 1999-2000.
  OPA Treasurer 2000- present.
• Northeast Ohio Psychiatric Association:
  Secretary-Treasurer, 1993-1994.
  President 1994-1995. Representative to Council 1996-1998.
  
• Member of:
  American Association of Community Psychiatrists; Group for Advancement of Psychiatry; National Alliance for Mentally Ill and NAMI Ohio. Expert panel participant, Schizophrenia Consensus Guidelines, The Expert Consensus Consortium, 1996 and 1998. Mental Health Commission, Ohio Department of Mental Health, 2000.

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