Seth S. Himelhoch, MD, MPH

Seth Himelhoch, MD, MPH received his medical degree at the University of Michigan School of Medicine (1994) and completed his residency training in general psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (1998). He completed a fellowship in health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2003), where he concurrently received a Master Degree in Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health (2003). Dr. Himelhoch additionally completed a fellowship in Implementation and Dissemination Science through the Implementation Research Institute (2012). He is currently a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar (Cohort 2: 2017-2020).

During his tenure with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he served in several key leadership positions including Director of the Division of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Interim Director of the Division of Psychiatric Services, Director of the Clinical Core of the Veterans Affairs VISN 5 Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center, Associate Residency Training Director for Research, and Vice Chair of the University of Maryland Institutional Review Board.

Dr. Himelhoch’s program of research focuses on developing and testing interventions to improve access and outcome of care for people with co-occurring psychiatric and drug use disorders. This work has been funded by The National Institutes of Mental Health, Drug Abuse, and Heart, Lung and Blood grants, among others. Throughout his career, he has published extensively in high impact journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, AIDS, JAIDS, American Journal of Addictions, and Psychiatric Services. Of note, he is currently a Fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (2017-2020) where he and his team are working to develop interventions to assist rural communities suffering from the consequences of the opiate epidemic.