Charles Samenow, MD, MPH
 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Title: Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Call for Appointment: (202) 741-2888
Medical Education:  University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Internship:  Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University School of Medicine
Residency:  Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Chief Resident)
Fellowship:  Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Psychosomatic Medicine)
Other Degrees:  Master of Public Health (health behavior and health education) University of Michigan School of Public Health
Board Certification:  Psychiatry
Clinical Interests:  Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Mental Health; Addiction and other Drug and Alcohol Related Health Issues; Attention Deficit Disorder; Sexual Compulsion and Hypersexual Behaviors

Profile:
Dr. Samenow is trained in general adult psychiatry and has specialized interests in professional health and wellness, addictions, and psychosomatic medicine.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH) and as the editor of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.  Dr. Samenow also serves as the course director for the GWU School of Medicine's courses in Psychopathology and Conceptual Models and Human Sexuality. In addition to teaching psychiatry residents and medical students, Dr. Samenow sees patients in the outpatient division of the Department of Psychiatry and attends on the GWUH psychiatry hospitalist service.

Dr. Samenow has presented both nationally and internationally on physician and attorney health issues and has published peer reviewed articles on disruptive physician behaviors.  He has received multiple honors and awards including election to Phi Beta Kappa, receipt of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's Leadership Development Award, and the 1999 Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award presented on Capital Hill by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.