January 29, 1999

Dr. Alan R. Felthous joined the faculty of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine as a professor of psychiatry and director of forensic psychiatric services. He will serve as coordinator of resident and student affairs for SIU's psychiatry residency program at the Chester Mental Health Center, where he is medical director.

He comes to the School from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was the Marie B. Gale Centennial Professor of Psychiatry.

Felthous completed his psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. (12975). He earned his medical degree at the University of Louisville School of Medicine (1971) and his bachelor's in zoology at the University of Washington in Seattle (1967).

He is certified by the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in general psychiatry and in the subspecialty of forensic pathology and by the National Board of Medical Examiners. He is a member of the American Psychiatry Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the Association of Directors of Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship Programs, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the German Society for Psychiatry and the Association of Naval Medical Officers. He is also a captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve and director of health services of the Naval Reserve Readiness Command Region Nine, Millington, Tenn.

He has written more than 120 book chapters, journal articles, reviews and abstracts on antisocial and aggressive behavior, preventing jailhouse suicide and violent psychiatric patient.

A native of Selah, Wash., Felthous and his wife, Mary, have three children.