Dr. Jon Edward Gudeman, MD

Jon E. Gudeman, MD, is Director of the Center for Psychotherapy at Columbia-St. Mary's Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Gudeman earned his bachelor's and medical degrees at Harvard University. After a medical internship at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinic, he did his psychiatric residency at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Chief Resident 1966-67) and trained at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. On behalf of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center he received the Gold Award from the Hospital & Community Psychiatry Division of the American Psychiatric Association. He also received the "Citation for Outstanding Performance" for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1984 and the Hospital Research Award from the APA and Psychiatric Institutes of America. For many years he served as Center Director at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard …Medical School. More recently, 1987-2001, he was Medical Director of the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex and its' Administrator from 1989-1993.In addition to clinical practice and teaching, Dr. Gudeman's major research interests are in depression, psychotherapy and the care and treatment of serious mental illness in the hospital and community. He developed and studied the Day Hospital/Inn model of care and has written extensively on this program. He has authored or coauthored articles on these and related topics including the follow books: Origins of Alcoholism, Staffing the Mental Health Center and The Use of Psychiatry in Smaller General Hospitals. Dr. Gudeman has served in a variety of professional organizations and leadership positions including President of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Chair of the Joint Information Service (1977), and Chairman of the Continuing Medical Committee (1984-'85) of the American Psychiatric Association.