Mark Komrad M.D.

Mark S. Komrad M.D.
Biography

Dr. Komrad is  a psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staff of Sheppard Pratt Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland.  He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins.  He was  assistant medical director of the Schizophrenia Unit at Sheppard Pratt Hopsital  for 10 years, where he continues to  train residents in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology and runs the Ethics Consultation Service and Hospital Ethics Committee for the Sheppard Pratt Health System throughout Maryland.   He lectures widely on topics in medical ethics, particularly involving mental health issues.  He has a private practice in general psychiatry with a special interest in treating mood disorders and schizophrenia. His technique is to combine psychopharmacology and psychotherapy, a combination treatment that has become increasingly rare in the contemporary managed-care environment.   In particular, Dr. Komrad uses these techniques to help people with serious, major mental illness rehabilitate to a higher level of functioning. He often consults to colleagues on difficult cases. 

Dr. Komrad is the psychiatric consultant to the Maryland Transportation Authority for which he  chairs its Suicide Prevention Task Force , which is studying how to prevent suicide jumpings from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and educates the media about  responsible reporting on suicide and the treatment of depression.    

He has lectured throughout the country on a variety of topics in psychiatry.  Dr. Komrad also appears widely on TV and radio  to discuss topics in psychiatry  and teaches psychiatry to residents and primary care physicians.  He has been  the host of a nationally syndicated  weekly radio talkshow about psychiatry, "Komrad on Call" on the American Radio Network,  and would regularly appear on a medical talkshow that broadcast to over 40 million listeners around the world on National Public Radio.  In addition, Dr. Komrad has served as consultant in the development of a major Hollywood film and a dramatic TV serial, both  about psychiatrists, creating  more accurate portrayals of psychiatrists and the mentally ill on TV and in the movies.   

Dr. Komrad was named as a "Distinguished Fellow" of the American Psychiatric Association-- a special distinction, "for exceptional  contributions to the community and the profession of psychiatry."  He was voted by professional peers as "One of Maryland's Top Mental Health Practitioners" and profiled for this in Baltimore Magazine.