Jonathan Sherin
Jonathan Sherin, MD, PhD joined Volunteers of America as executive vice president for veterans’ affairs and chief medical officer in January 2012. He oversees Volunteers of America’s services to veterans, including housing assistance, employment and supportive services.
Prior to joining Volunteers of America, Sherin served as chief of mental health for the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and professor and vice-chairman for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami. A leading authority on the treatment of veterans suffering from mental health problems, Sherin had a distinguished career in the VA where he served for over a decade as a clinician, teacher, researcher and administrative leader. During this time, Sherin gained extensive experience overseeing mental health programs across the entire clinical continuum including some of the largest inpatient, outpatient and residential programs in the VA. Sherin was also proactive in forging partnerships between the VA and community organizations with whom he helped develop progressive programs for veterans, including two residential centers that focus on reintegration at Volunteers of America Greater Los Angeles.
Sherin is an accomplished neurobiology researcher with notable achievements that include his work identifying a core sleep circuit in mammals that garnered national and international recognition. In addition, Sherin was a recipient of the prestigious Kempf Award from the American Psychiatric Association for his conceptual model of the psychotic process. More recently, Sherin’s academic interests have focused on the neurobiology of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and the aging process. Sherin completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University, his graduate work at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School, and his post-graduate training at UCLA and the Greater Los Angeles VA. Sherin has stepped down from his vice-chairmanship at the University of Miami but will remain on faculty.
