University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Promotes Jack Rozel, MD, to Professor of Psychiatry
We are delighted to announce that Jack Rozel, MD, has been promoted to Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Dr. Rozel received his MD from Brown University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in general psychiatry at UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital (WPH). While undertaking fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as in forensic psychiatry, Dr. Rozel additionally earned an MSL in health law from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Dr. Rozel’s clinical focus is treating and managing individuals requiring emergency mental health services in the community. As medical director of resolve Crisis Services, he has built and led an organization that provides immediate access to mental health care in Allegheny County, offering individuals in crisis a critical alternative to hospital emergency room care. In addition to his outstanding oversight of resolve, Dr. Rozel additionally serves as the founding medical director of the Mobile Mental Health Therapy (MMHT) program, which increases access to behavioral health care by providing in-home services for adults and older adolescents for whom traveling to appointments is impossible.
Dr. Rozel is also among the most prominent, nationally recognized experts on firearm injury prevention, crisis management, and workplace violence. He frequently consults on complex cases and high-profile incidents regionally and nationally, and has received national awards recognizing his clinical acumen in these highly sensitive areas. Dr. Rozel is deeply involved in the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, and served as president of the organization from 2018-2020.
Dr. Rozel’s contributions to the Pitt and UPMC communities includes his demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity (DEI). This commitment includes demonstrated knowledge of health disparities and racism in medicine, particularly emergency medicine. In 2020, as invited keynote speaker at the annual meeting for the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, he addressed how antiracism and diversity help mitigate violence risk.
“The breadth and depth of Dr. Rozel’s achievements is uniquely impressive,” said David Lewis, MD (Chair, Department of Psychiatry). “In addition to running resolve Crisis Services, a large, high-profile, and exceptionally challenging clinical program, he provides multiple additional clinical services at WPH. His contributions as an authority in emergency and crisis psychiatry, violence, and mental health law and policy are notably and uniquely relevant to his fellow clinicians, and to trainees, as well as to law makers, law enforcement, and the general public.”
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rozel!