Jeff Katzman

JEFF KATZMAN, MD; Medical Director of the Behavioral Health Professional Workforce Resiliency ECHO; Medical Director, Project ECHO Resilience Programs Emeritus Professor University of New Mexico Dept of Psychiatry; Director of Education, Silver Hill Hospital; Adjunct Professor, Yale Dept of Psychiatry Jeff is currently the Director of the Fellowship Programs at Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut and holds leadership positions in the American Association of Dynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He has recently retired as a professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine Health Sciences Center, where he also served as vice chair for Education. He has served as the medical director for the Project ECHO First Responder Program, a novel teleECHO program that shared best practices between clinicals and traditional and nontraditional first responders (NTFRs). He received his BA at Stanford University and went to medical school at the University of California, San Diego, before going to UCLA for his psychiatry residency. Jeff has studied improvisational theater for 30 years. He has used the techniques of improvisational theater to teach collaboration, spontaneity, access to the imagination, and the importance of play and a good time to patients, scientists, psychiatry residents, psychotherapists, and interdisciplinary leadership teams. His novel The Storymaker was a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition. He lectures at conferences across the country each year on psychodynamic psychotherapy, attachment, and applied improvisation.