Allan Josephson

Allan Josephson, Physician, is Professor and Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Pediatrics with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He is the lead author of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s practice parameter on The Assessment of the Family and has served as the chair of the Family Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in religion, spirituality and psychiatry. He recently received the Oskar Pfister Award from the American Psychiatric Association, given to an individual for significant achievement in the study of psychiatry and religion.