Senior Consultant and Director
"Despite vast disparities in resources, the global problems facing health care are very similar: we have the capacity to do more for our patients than we can afford. That is the challenge facing countries throughout the world, and no country has met that challenge successfully. PHMI can be a conduit for the best thinking applied to this problem."
Dr. Shore joined Partners Harvard Medical International in 1999 to provide leadership in developing executive education programs and consultation concerning health policy and management issues. After 17 years directing the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, a major Harvard psychiatric teaching and research program, Dr. Shore moved to the Kennedy School of Government in 1993 as Visiting Scholar. There Dr. Shore co-directed an executive education program in health policy for physicians and health care. He lectured and conducted seminars on health policy, mental health policy, and taught a course on leadership skills.
Dr. Shore began his psychiatric teaching career at Harvard and in 1964 became Director of Community Psychiatry and the Tufts Mental Health Center at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was appointed Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts in 1971 and, a year later, Associate Dean for Community Affairs and Director for Community Health and Ambulatory Care at the New England Medical Center Hospital. In 1975 he returned to Harvard as Bullard Professor of Psychiatry and served as Superintendent of the Massachusetts Mental Health Center until June, 1993.
Dr. Shore has served as consultant to a wide variety of community agencies, clinics and hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and Saudi Arabia. He has taught about health and mental health policy in Australia, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, and the Netherlands. From 1985 to 1992 he was director of the Program for Mental Illness of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was president of the American College of Psychiatrists in 1997. He has served on the boards of a number of professional and not-for-profit agencies.
Dr. Shore is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, trained in psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Boston Beth Israel Hospital, and is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.