Newswise — The Menninger Clinic and Baylor College of Medicine announce the appointment of John M. Oldham, MD, as chief of staff of The Menninger Clinic in Houston. An authority on personality disorders and a psychoanalyst, Dr. Oldham will also serve as a senior vice president for The Clinic and as executive vice chair for Clinical Affairs and Development and professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at BCM.
Dr. Oldham is a Baylor College of Medicine alumnus and is currently professor and chairman of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and a clinical professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. At MUSC he oversees an active psychiatry department consistently ranked among the top departments in the United States for research support. He is also executive director of the Institute of Psychiatry at MUSC, which includes a 90-bed inpatient hospital. The Institute was recently named one of the best hospitals in the nation for treatment of psychiatric disorders by U.S. News & World Report, and for the last two years has been named Hospital of the Year by the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) of South Carolina.
"Dr. Oldham brings to Menninger a wealth of clinical expertise and experience working with complex medical and psychiatric systems," said Ian Aitken, president and CEO of The Menninger Clinic. "His international reputation as a leader in psychiatric medicine and specialization in personality disorders is a tremendous asset to The Clinic and our affiliations with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital. We are pleased he is joining our team at this exciting time in our history."
Prior to working at Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Oldham served as the Elizabeth K. Dollard professor and acting chairman of the department of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and chief medical officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health. Under his leadership at New York State Psychiatric Institute, the organization successfully built a new $113 million facility.
"It is a privilege to have the opportunity to join the leadership team at Menninger," Dr. Oldham said. "The Menninger Clinic is a landmark institution in American psychiatry. All of us in the field have been influenced by the pioneering work at The Clinic, and many of my teachers and professional colleagues are Menninger trained or have participated in the work of The Clinic."
In his new role, Dr. Oldham's goals include continuing Menninger's shared vision with its partners to build a new international behavioral health campus located near the Texas Medical Center and working closely with Baylor College of Medicine to continue developing leading mental health patient care, research and education.
"Dr. Oldham brings exceptional leadership experience and skills to The Menninger Clinic and the Menninger Department of Psychiatry of Baylor College of Medicine," said Stuart Yudofsky, MD, D.C. and Irene Ellwood Professor and chairman of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at BCM and chief of the Psychiatry Service at The Methodist Hospital. "Additionally, his expertise in personality disorders research is a perfect fit for the research strengths and initiatives of the Child and Family Program and the Brown Human Neuroimaging Laboratory programs of The Menninger Clinic and the Menninger Department."
After receiving a master's degree in neuroendocrinology from Baylor College of Medicine in 1966 and a medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1967, Dr. Oldham completed his psychiatric training at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and his psychoanalytic training at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center.
He holds board certification in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and forensic psychiatry and is considered an expert in the area of personality disorders, about which he has written and lectured extensively.
An international leader in the psychiatric community, Dr. Oldham is active nationally as an educator and lecturer, and is author and editor of more than 200 journal articles, books, book chapters and editorials, including the Textbook of Personality Disorders, published by American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. in 2005, and The New Personality Self-Portrait, continuously published by Bantam from 1995 until the present.
Oldham also serves as treasurer of the American College of Psychiatrists, president of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association, and he represents the American Psychiatric Association on the Executive Committee of the Physicians Consortium for Performance Improvement of the American Medical Association. He is immediate past president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, past president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders and past president of the New York County District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Oldham and his wife, internal medicine physician Karen Pacella Oldham, MD, plan to relocate to Houston by January 2007. They have two adult children.
The Menninger Clinic is an international specialty psychiatric center, providing treatment, research and education. Founded in 1925 in Kansas, Menninger relocated to Houston in 2003 and is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital. For 16 consecutive years, Menninger has been named among the leading psychiatric hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of America's Best Hospitals.
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