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Allen Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the George Washington University.  Previously he was Vice-chair for Education.  His major interests are Global Health and Mental Health, Medical Ethics and Professionalism, psycho-oncology, spirituality and health,  and clinical care.

Formerly he was Senior Health Advisor at the International Medical Corps.  Previously he has been on the faculty at Duke University, Albany Medical College, where he served as Interim Chair of the department of psychiatry and Chief Medical Officer of the Capital District Psychiatric Center, and East Tennessee State University, where he served as chair of the department of psychiatry.

He received his AB and Master of Medical Science at Brown University, his MD and his PhD  from Duke.  The PhD was in medical ethics from the Department of Religion.  While still a resident at Duke, he began his tenure on the APA Ethics committee and the AMA Council on Mental Health.

He is the recipient of several awards including Attending of the Year, Nancy C.A. Roeske Award in Recognition of Outstanding and Sustained Contributions to Medical Education, An Award and Recognition for service to the Iraqi people, and the Bruno Lima award of  APA for disaster psychiatry.  He served on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics. He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the APA (DLFAPA).

He is the author of several books including Idealism on Medical Ethics:  The Problem of the Moral Inversion; Ethics in Clinical Medicine; The Humanities and the Profession of Medicine; Ethics and Psychiatry:  Toward Professional Definition, co-author of Concise Guide to Ethics in Clinical Care and author of One More Mountain to Climb:  What my Illness Taught Me About Health and Global Mental Health Ethics,  and Madness and the Political Divide.  

This webpage provides quick access to major publications and many unpublished lectures.

It also links to the Willowcliff Foundation, the Dyer Family Foundation, which supports world citizenship and global stewardship.

Projects and Presentations links to materials used in disaster response curricula I have developed.  These are available for anyone who would like to use them.  Please use them freely and send comments or questions on the CONTACT link.