JACK C. SCHOENHOLTZ, M.D.

MEDICAL DIRECTOR/ADMINISTRATOR

He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Diplomate in Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College, teaching psychiatry to medical students for over two decades. He served as Chairman of the New York State Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals for ten years, has been the Medical Director of the Rye Hospital Center since 1971 and, in 1998, he became Founding Medical Director and Vice-President for Medical Affairs of the Children's Mental Health Alliance Foundation.

A trustee of the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems for six years, he chaired the national organization's first committee on Cost Review. An early researcher in the uses of lithium for Manic-Depressive illness (Bi-Polar Disorder), establishing clinics at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center-Westchester Division, New York United Hospital in Port Chester, NY and at Rye Hospital Center, he has also been active in state and federal regulatory matters, providing testimony before federal and state legislative and regulatory bodies, and litigating as plaintiff three times at the level of the U.S. Supreme Court in cases involving psychiatric hospitals and the healthcare industry.

His successful resistance to the interference with treatment of patients by managed-care organizations is widely known through media interviews, numerous articles and monographs, and as consultant to several committees and councils of the American Psychiatric Association and patient-advocacy organizations. He was the senior author, in collaboration with Drs. Alfred M. Freedman and Abraham L. Halpern, of: The "Legal" Abuse of Physicians in Deaths in the United States: The Erosion of Ethics and Morality in Medicine, published in The Wayne Law Review, a treatise on physician-assisted suicide, participation in competency examinations for executions, and the ethical dilemma of physicians embracing managed care. A draft of his recent book, The Managed Care Industry-A Market Failure, has been sent to key legislators, policy planners and leaders of the healthcare community. Dr. Schoenholtz is married to Joan M. Schoenholtz, R.N. He is the father of six children, grandfather of eight and the great-grandfather of two.