Richard F. Summers, MD is Co-Director of Residency Training and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Summers is Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning and a member of the ACGME Psychiatry Review Committee. He is Past President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT).
Dr. Summers’ clinical interests focus on combined psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, and adult lifecycle development. His research interests include the contemporary revision of the theory and technique of psychodynamic psychotherapy and new approaches to psychotherapy training and education.
