Michael H. Ebert

Michael H. Ebert is currently a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Yale University. He was most recently the chief medical officer of the Veterans Administration Connecticut Healthcare System and associate dean for veterans affairs and professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine from 2002 until his retirement in 2021.

From 1984 to 2002, he was the chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology. 

After graduating from Williams College in 1962 and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1966, Dr. Ebert did a residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (Mass Mental Health Center and Mass General Hospital). In 1971 he went to the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he ran a research program. He was clinical director of the NIMH Intramural Research Program from 1980 to 1984 and was acting director of the Clinical Center (the NIH hospital) and associate director of the NIH for Clinical Care in 1983–84. 

Dr. Ebert’s military service began as active duty in the United States Public Health Service at the NIH. Subsequently he served in the inactive reserves of the USPHS, and then in the active reserves of the United States Navy. He retired from the US Navy in 2000 at the rank of captain, after completing over twenty years of service.

Dr. Ebert has played an national leadership role in educational affairs in psychiatry and academic medicine, including as a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and chair of its Psychiatry Council; as chair of the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education; as the president of the American Association of Chairs of Departments of Psychiatry; and as a member of the Executive Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Administrative Board of the Council of Academic Societies, and the Regional Policy Board of the American Hospital Association.

Dr. Ebert has authored/coauthored over 220 papers and book chapters and has co-edited a number of books, including four editions of Current Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry in the Lange Series (4th edition published 2025).

Throughout his career, Dr. Ebert maintained his identity as a clinician treating psychiatric patients.