AACP Board
Area Representitive (A5)
Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H.
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. I also have appointments in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the school of medicine, and the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory. I received my medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, and completed my psychiatry residency, public health degree, and preventive medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta. Also at Emory, I completed the unique two-year Emory University Fellowship in Community Psychiatry / Public Health, for which I currently serve as a Co-Director.
Double-boarded in psychiatry and preventive medicine, I am very interested in all aspects of community psychiatry, but particularly in strengthening the interface between prevention and community psychiatry. I recently published the Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health (American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2009), and I serve as the Chair of the Prevention Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). I am on the Prevention Practice Committee of the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Core Examination Committee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association (Georgia’s district branch). In 2006, I received the William Kane Rising Star Award of the American College of Preventive Medicine and a Leader of the Future Award of the International Early Psychosis Association. I received the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Georgia Exemplary Psychiatrist Award in 2007 and a National-NAMI Exemplary Psychiatrist Award in 2010. I am a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine.
My primary clinical interest is the early course of schizophrenia, and I receive research support from the National Institute of Mental Health to study first-episode psychosis. My research interests include the multi-factorial determinants of the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP), correlates of substance use in the early course of schizophrenia, schizotypy, and the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) model of collaboration between law enforcement and mental health.
Michael T. Compton, M.D., M.P.H.
Email: mcompto@emory.edu