Thomas N. Wise

Thomas N. Wise, M.D. has a long career in consultation liaison psychiatry (Psychosomatic Medicine) that spans over 3 decades. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, George Washington and the Virginia Commonwealth University School. As medical director of Psychiatry at the Inova Health Systems in Fairfax Virginia he established the consultation liaison fellowship program over 30 years ago. He has been president of both the American Psychosomatic Society and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine where he was awarded the Thomas Hackett Award. Dr. Wise is the series editor of Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine. He was editor of Psychosomatics for 20 years.

He has published over 315 papers and textbook chapters. His research interest is personality variables in coping with medical illness as well as providing psychiatric services to medical populations. He is co-editor of a new textbook Psycho-Oncology. He is co- editor of Psychiatry in Primary Care in its second edition.