Sheldon Benjamin, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Massachusetts T H Chan School of Medicine (UMass Chan), where he has served as Director of Neuropsychiatry since 1986. He served as Interim Chair of Psychiatry from 2017-2020, Director of the UMass Chan Neuropsychiatry Fellowship since 1989, founding director of the Combined Neurology/Psychiatry Residency Program from 1997-2020 (now associate director), and co-director of the UMass Chan Fellowship in Adult Neurodevelopmental Disabilities. In 2020 he stepped down after 25 years as Psychiatry Program Director and is now Vice Chair for Education and Associate Program Director. He had the pleasure of serving as Visiting Professor in Neuropsychiatry at Kings College Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience from March-August 2023.

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he completed psychiatry residency training at Tufts New England Medical Center, neurology residency training at Tufts and Boston University, and a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology at the Boston University/Boston Veterans Administration Hospital. He is board-certified in both Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) and in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry by the United Council on Neurological Subspecialties. Dr. Benjamin is currently one of the Psychiatry Directors of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He has served as President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) and President of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA). He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA, a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, and a Fellow of ANPA.

Dr. Benjamin has been selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award by the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, The UMass Chan Lamar Soutter Lifetime Achievement Award in Education, the UMass Chan Chancellors Medal for Distinguished Teaching, the American Neuropsychiatric Association’s Gary J Tucker, MD Lifetime Achievement Award in Neuropsychiatry, and the AADPRT Lifetime Service Award in Psychiatric Education.

A specialist in the evaluation of behavioral problems at the interface of psychiatry and neurology, he teaches clinical neuroscience and neuropsychiatry; and has published and presented widely on neuropsychiatry, clinical neuroscience training of psychiatrists; neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric examination techniques; educational technology; residency training issues; and the history of neuropsychiatry. He is co-author of The Brain Card®, a guide to comprehensive bedside neuropsychiatric examination; a coauthor of the ACGME-ABPN Psychiatry Milestones; a coauthor of the APA Guidelines for the Treatment of Schizophrenia, and a co-author of the forthcoming revision to the APA Guidelines for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.