Mark Komrad:  

Life Mark S. Komrad MD Biography Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staff of Sheppard Pratt Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He was assistant medical director of the Schizophrenia Unit at Sheppard Pratt for 10 years, where he continues to train residents in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. In addition, he has a private practice in general psychiatry with a special interest in treating mood disorders and schizophrenia. His technique is to combine psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, a combination treatment that has become increasingly rare in the contemporary managed-care environment. In particular, Dr. Komrad uses these techniques to help people with serious, major mental illness rehabilitate to a higher level of functioning. He often consults to colleagues on difficult cases. Dr. Komrad is Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee for the Sheppard Pratt Health Systems. He publishes, lectures widely and presents training workshops to mental health professionals on topics in Medical Ethics. Dr. Komrad is the psychiatr...Expand for more