About Dr. Sherin

Dr. Jonathan Sherin is a psychiatrist and neurobiologist by trade. He currently serves on multiple public and private boards to advance the health, wellbeing and connectedness of vulnerable populations both domestically and internationally.

Dr. Sherin has devoted the bulk of his career to public service. Most recently he directed the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, the largest public mental health system in the country. He also led Mental Health departments for the VA. While he is best known for driving wholesale systems transformation and policy reform at the local, state and federal level, he is also responsible for introducing TMS into the public mental health system for the first time in our county.

In addition to his body of work in the health and human services sector, Dr. Sherin is an accomplished scientist who has published in the fields of neurobiology and psychiatry. He received international acclaim for his research identifying a core sleep-circuit in mammals (the “sleep switch”, featured in Science magazine) and received a Kempf Award from the APA for his conceptual model of the psychotic process.

Dr. Sherin completed his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University, his graduate studies at the University of Chicago and Harvard, and his psychiatry residency at UCLA. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at UCLA, USC and Roseman Medical School and stays connected himself as a father, surfer, cook, writer and (aspiring) sailor.