Avram H. Mack

Avram H. Mack, MD, is Associate Chair for Quality and Safety at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he is a practicing psychiatrist with a focus on substance use disorders and forensic, child, adult, and consultation–liaison psychiatry. Dr. Mack leads efforts on quality and patient safety and has had extensive experience as a teacher and administrator in undergraduate and graduate medical education for trainees and staff at the University of Pennsylvania, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and previously at Georgetown University. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, forensic psychiatry, and addiction medicine and presents, publishes, and testifies extensively regarding substance abuse. A past president of the Washington Psychiatric Society, he served on the board of directors of the American Psychiatric Association and on the Impaired Physicians Committee of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. A distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, Dr. Mack is a recipient of the Education Award presented by the Association for Academic Psychiatry in recognition of his efforts in advancing the patient safety movement within psychiatry.