William Scheftner, MD, is a full professor of psychiatry. Scheftner’s credentials include decades of clinical inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care, significant amounts of research and administrative experience. He is recognized as a leading psychopharmacologist. He has received NIMH funding for research on the study of mood disorders. He is heavily involved in residency education. He is seen as a mentor for residents interested in both clinical psychiatry and psychiatric research. He provides individual supervision to residents caring for inpatients and outpatients. He co-leads the Resident’s Literature Seminar, serves as a guest consultant at the multidisciplinary case conference, and teaches the residents about ECT, epidemiology, genetics and the treatment of schizophrenia and mood disorders.