Shawn Christopher Shea MD

Shawn Christopher Shea, M.D. is an internationally acclaimed workshop leader and innovator in the fields of suicide prevention, building resiliency, clinical interviewing, and improving medication adherence having given over 850 presentations worldwide. He is the creator of the highly acclaimed interviewing strategy for uncovering suicidal ideation and intent – the Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (the CASE Approach). His other clinical interviewing innovations, including facility supervision, micro training, and the Medication Interest Model (MIM) have been adopted around the world with his writings being translated into a variety of languages as diverse as French, Greek, Japanese, and Chinese.

Dr. Shea has been a recipient of an Outstanding Course Award presented by the American Psychiatric Association for his presentations at their annual meetings. He is a frequent presenter at the annual meeting of the American Association of Suicidology and at the Cape Cod Symposium where his course has received the highest evaluation of the thirty courses featured over the summer. He has also presented at the Psychiatric Congress, the Santa Fe Symposium, the Door County Summer Institute, and the Muskoka Summer Seminar Series from McMaster University. Dr. Shea has been a guest lecturer at numerous academic centers including the Harvard School of Medicine, McGill University, and the Mayo Clinic.

In addition to his workshops on suicide prevention and clinical interviewing, Dr. Shea provides motivational talks in business settings, for the general public, and on college campuses. He has provided the commencement address for Antioch University of New England as well as presenting to student audiences on finding resiliency and compassion in difficult times at institutions such as Dartmouth, Bryn Mawr, and George Washington University. Within the college and university setting, he has also presented workshops on clinical interviewing techniques for spotting suicide at a variety of student counseling centers from the University of Vermont to Virginia Tech.