ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS, AND HONORS
Positions and Employment:
Associate Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 2011- Present
Affiliated Faculty, Northwestern, Chicago, IL, 2008-2010
Associate Professor, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, 2004-2010
Carnegie Scholar, Carnegie Foundation, Menlo Park, CA 2001-2002
Governors Teaching Fellow, University of Georgia, 1998-1999
Associate Professor, Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta, GA, 2000-2003
Other Experience and Professional Memberships:
Associate Vice Chancellor for Health and Wellness and Director, Wardenburg Health Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2010 - Present
Executive Director, Northwestern University Health Service, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2003 - 2010
Co-Director, Governors Teaching Fellows Program, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2001 - 2003
Director, Center for Educational Excellence, Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Augusta, GA, 2000 - 2002
Honors:
Harvard Honorary Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 1973
AB Cum Laude in General Studies, Harvard College, 1974
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), Rush Medical College Zeta Chapter, 1978
"Medical Student Teacher of the Year", Department of Psychiatry, Evanston Hospital (Northwestern University Medical School), 1988
"Outstanding Medical Student Teacher of the Year", Department of Psychiatry, Evanston Hospital (Northwestern University Medical School), 1990
"Schlageter Award for Outstanding Medical Student Teaching", Northwestern University Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 1990
"Teacher of the Year Award", Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Residency Training Program, Medical College of Georgia, School of Medicine, 1993-1994
"Teacher of the Year Award", Association for Academic Psychiatry, Region V (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida), 1996
"Didactic Teacher of the Year Award", Medical College of Georgia, Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior, Residency Training Program, 1997
"Educator of the Year Award", Presented by the Class of 2003, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, 2000
"Carnegie Scholar", 2001-2002
"The Outstanding Achievement Award for Staff New to the Division" Northwestern University Division of Student Affairs, 2004
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
American
Psychiatric Association (APA) 52nd Institute on Psychiatric
Services, 10/25-29/00. Donald A. Misch,
M.D. (Course Director) and Lydia E. Weisser, D.O. (Faculty)
American
Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting (New Orleans), 5/10/01. Donald A. Misch, M.D. (Course Director);
Lydia E. Weisser, D.O. and David Heilman, M.D. (Faculty)
American
Psychiatric Association (APA) 53rd Institute on Psychiatric
Services, 10/10-14/01. Donald A. Misch,
M.D. (Course Director) and Lydia E. Weisser, D.O. (Faculty)
American
Psychiatric Association (APA) 54th Institute on Psychiatric
Services, 10/9-13/02. Donald A. Misch,
M.D. (Course Director) and Lydia E. Weisser, D.O. (Faculty)
SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLICATIONS
Misch,
DA: Psychosocial Formulation Training Using Commercial Films. Academic Psychiatry 24(2):99-104, 2000
Misch,
DA: Great Expectations: Mistaken Beliefs of Beginning Psychodynamic
Psychotherapists. American
Journal of Psychotherapy 54(2):172-203, 2000
Misch,
DA: Basic Strategies of Dynamic Supportive Therapy. The Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and
Research 9(4):173-189, 2000
Misch,
DA: Evaluating Physicians= Professionalism
and Humanism: The Case for Humanism “Connoisseurs” Academic Medicine 77(6):489-495, 2002
Misch,
DA: Andragogy and Medical Education: Are Medical Students Internally Motivated
to Learn? Advances
in Health Sciences Education 7(2):153-160, 2002
Misch,
DA: The As If Faculty/Student Advocate. Educational
Management and Administration 30(4):461-467, 2002
Misch,
DA: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Lessons from—Gasp!-- Sigmund
Freud The
Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2):21-33,
2003
Misch,
DA: The Interpretative Leap: Helping Our Students Read Between the Lines Journal on Excellence in College Teaching,
15(3):37-61, 2004
Misch,
DA: The Physician’s Counsel. Journal
of the American Medical Association, 296(3):259-260, 2006
Misch,
DA: Natural Recovery from Alcohol Abuse among College Students. Journal of American College Health,
55(4):215-218, 2007
Misch,
DA: On-Campus Programs to Support College Students in Recovery. Journal of American College Health,
58(3):279-280, 2009
Misch,
DA: Changing the Culture of Alcohol Abuse on Campus: Lessons Learned from
Secondhand Smoke. Journal of American
College Health,59(3):232-234, 2010
Misch,
DA: College Student Assessment of the Signs of Alcohol Poisoning: To Dream the
Impossible Dream. Journal of Student
Affairs Practice and Research, 48(2):165-178, 2011
Boehmer,
CM and Misch, DA: Working Through the Trauma of Sexual Assault in an
Undergraduate Class. Women &
Therapy, 34:461-480, 2011