Richard A. Ratner

B.A., University of Chicago; M.D., University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Ratner has a private practice of psychiatry; he is also a consultant to St. Elizabeth's Hospital and a clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at George Washington University School of Medicine. He served his psychiatric residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Doctor Ratner is certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and in adolescent psychiatry by the American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry. He is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member, fellow, and past president of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry, from which he received the Schonfeld Award in 2003, and is secretary and a director of the American Board of Adolescent Psychiatry. In May of 2006 he assumed the one year presidency of the Washington, D.C., Psychiatric Society, a district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. In addition to his clinical teaching position at the school of medicine, Dr. Ratner is a guest lecturer at George Washington Law School. He has been an adjunct professor at the Law Center since 1980.