Philip Muskin, M.D., M.A.

Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association (2017 – 2019)

Philip Muskin, M.D., M.A. began his term as Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association at the end of the APA Annual Meeting in May, 2017. Dr. Muskin is a Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Muskin is a distinguished fellow of the APA, and is an Associate Editor at American Psychiatric Association Publishing. Dr. Muskin has served on several councils and committees during his time as an APA member. He has been a member of APA’s Scientific Program Committee since 1990, serving as chairperson from 2016 to 2017 and 2000 to 2002. Dr. Muskin was a member of the Council on Psychosomatic Medicine from 2004 to 2009 and served as the chair of the council from 2004 to 2006. He has also served on the Committees on CME/Lifelong Learning and C-L Psychiatry & Primary Care Education. He has also served as the editor of Psychiatric News PsychoPharm since 2015.

In 1989, Dr. Muskin founded the Trained Liaison Comforter Program at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital; a volunteer program that provides emotional support for families of patients in intensive care units. He served as a consultant to the Red Cross First Step program for widows, has been a consultant to the Vivian Beaumont Theater, and is a volunteer facilitator in the NYPD Stress Management Program. He is Past-President of the Association for Academic Psychiatry and the Society for Liaison Psychiatry.

Dr. Muskin is the recipient of many awards and honors, including:

• 2015 Distinguished Service Award: Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
• 2009 Alan Stoudemire Award for Innovation & Excellence in Psychosomatic Medicine Education: Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
• 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award: Association for Academic Psychiatry
• 2007 Webb Visiting Professor (MSKCC: New York): Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
• 2005 Special Presidential Commendation: American Psychiatric Association
• 2005 Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents: American Psychiatric Assn.
• 2000 Society for Liaison Psychiatry: Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

Education

• Neurobiology and Behavior A.B. 1969, Cornell University
• Experimental Psychology M.A 1970, The Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
• New York Medical College M.D. 1974
• Medical Internship Internal Medicine 1974-75, Metropolitan Hospital Center New York, NY
• Adult Psychiatric Residency 1975-78, New York State Psychiatric Institute
  • Research Fellowship: Therapeutics
• NIMH Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
• Certificate of Psychoanalysis, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research