Dr. Jonathan E. Sherin, MD/PhD, is currently Chief of Mental Health at the Miami VA Healthcare System as well as Professor and Vice Chairman of Psychiatry at the University of Miami. Dr. Sherin is deeply committed to healing the “Invisible Wounds of War” through his work in the VA and beyond. His overarching career goal is “to help realize the vision of a future in which apolitical civilian service coalesces to nurture the well-being of the military community on the home-front”. Dr Sherin got his undergraduate degree in neuroscience from Brown University where he studied the synaptic basis of learning and memory. He then completed his graduate work in a combined program at Harvard and the University of Chicago where he completed medical school and conducted scientific  experiments that led to pioneering discoveries in the field of sleep neurobiology.

During his post-graduate years, first as a trainee and then faculty at UCLA, he developed a neuropsychiatric model of the psychotic process for which he was awarded the Kempf Prize from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr Sherin thrives on humor as a personal past-time and therapeutic phenomenon for family, friends and patients alike. He used to surf when he lived in LA, and now he fishes as much as possible to maintain a mellow baseline state.