Sheldon Benjamin, M.D., graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and completed psychiatry residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center, neurology residency training at Tufts-New England Medical Center and Boston University, and Behavioral Neurology fellowship at the Boston Veterans Administration and Boston University. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurology and Director of Neuropsychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School, where he served as Interim Chair of Psychiatry from 2017 to 2020, and Vice Chair for Education and Director of the UMass Chan Psychiatry Residency Program for 25 years before stepping down and transitioning to Associate Director. He founded the combined neurology/psychiatry residency program at UMass Chan Medical School and served as its co-director from 1997 to 2020, when he became Associate Director. He has served as President of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training and the American Neuropsychiatric Association. He currently serves as secretary of the International Neuropsychiatric Association and serves on the Psychiatry Review Committee of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education and on the board of directors of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Benjamin has taught neuropsychiatry to psychiatry residents for 40 years.
Kathy Niu, M.D., graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and then completed the Combined Neurology/Psychiatry Residency at UMass Chan Medical School. Previously on the faculty of the Duke University and Vanderbilt University medical schools, she has served in roles including Psychiatry Clerkship Director and Co-Director of a Brain, Behavior, and Movement course for medical students. She started working on this textbook while at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and completed it at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where she now serves as the Program Director of the Neurology-Psychiatry Combined Residency and practices in both the psychiatry and neurology departments.