Richard J. Loewenstein MD

Richard J. Loewenstein M.D., is the founder and Medical Director of The Trauma Disorders Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, MD, ranked by U.S. News and World Report as among America’s 10 top psychiatric facilities and ranked by them as among America’s top 1 % of psychiatrists. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The Trauma Disorders Program includes a 22-bed inpatient unit, an outpatient program, a fellowship program, and research, consultation and teaching components.

He is the author of over 75 papers and book chapters on sleep disorders, consultation-liaison psychiatry, dissociation, dissociative disorders, and trauma disorders. He is among the authors of all editions of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation Guidelines for the Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults. He has authored or co-authored standard chapters on diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders in the most recent editions of the American Psychiatric Association textbook, Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, and Sadock and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (10th edition in 2017).

He is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation and Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has received numerous awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He is co-chair of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Task Force on the Biopsychosocial Consequences of Childhood Trauma, and Advisor to the APA DSM 5 Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group. He is an advisor to the longitudinal Treatment of Patients with Dissociative Disorders (TOPDD) Study headed by Bethany Brand, Ph.D. of Towson University.