Biographical Summary
Allen R. Dyer is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at James H. Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, where he has served as chair of the department. Previously he was at Albany Medical College, where he served as associate and interim chair of the psychiatry department, Psychiatrist-in-chief at the Albany Medical Center Hospital, Chief Medical Officer of the Capital District Psychiatric Center. He was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the State University of New York at Albany.
He was born in Bangor, Maine, graduated from Maine Central Institute, graduated from Brown University, where he also received the Master of Medical Science degree. He received a Certificate of Theological Studies from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. He earned his MD degree from Duke University and also his PhD from the department of religion at Duke (in the field of medical ethics, contemporary and systematic studies). He did his internship and psychiatric residency including a year as chief resident of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. He did psychoanalytic training at the UNC-Duke Psychoanalytic Institute. He was also on the faculty at Duke for over a decade.
His field of academic interest is medical ethics and health policy. He has written over a hundred articles and chapters and is the author of a number of books including Ethics and Psychiatry: Toward Professional Definition and coauthor of A Concise Guide to Ethics in Mental Health Care. He served on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Bioethics (3rd edition, Mental Health and Human Sexuality areas).
He has received a number of teaching awards including Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award in the Clinical Sciences (1998), Nancy C. A. Roeske Award for Outstanding and Sustained Contributions in Medical Education and the Caduceus Club Attending of the Year (2006).