Adam M Brenner, M.D.

Adam M Brenner, M.D.

Distinguished Teaching Professor

  • Psychiatry

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Biography

Adam  Brenner, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Director of General Psychiatry Residency Training, and  Vice Chair for Education in Psychiatry. 

He is a graduate of Emory University, magna cum laude in philosophy. He attended Harvard Medical School and then completed his psychiatry residency at McLean Hospital. 

Dr. Brenner’s clinical focus is on treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders with a combination of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. 

Dr. Brenner is the Vice Chair of the Psychiatry Review Committee at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and a past president of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training.

Among his educational and teaching awards, he has been elected to the University of Texas Academy of Health Science Educators and also received the University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teacher Award. A graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Brenner is on the faculty of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Brenner also is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Academic Psychiatry.

  • Residency - Harvard Medical School - McLean Hospital (1990-1994), Psychiatry
  • Medical Education - Harvard Medical School (1986-1990)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Mental Health America of Dallas (2011)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Dallas Psychoanalytic Center (2010)
  • Executive Committee, North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2008)
  • Elected to membership, University of Texas Kenneth I. Shine Academy of Health Science Education 2013-2013
  • Nancy C. A. Roeske Certificate for Recognition of Excellence in Medical Student Education, American Psychiatric Association 2013-2013
  • Elected to membership, University of Texas Southwestern Academy of Teachers 2012-2012
  • Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents, American Psychiatric Association 2012
  • University of Texas Regents Outstanding Teacher Award 2014-2014
  • Association for Academic Psychiatry Roberts Award for Inspirational Mentorship in the Field of Academic Psychiatry 2017
  • UT Southwestern Leaders in Clinical Excellence Mentoring Award 2026
  • Psychiatric Education
  • Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

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