Seth Himelhoch, MD, MPH

2025 Master Clinicians

Dr. Himelhoch is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, following six years as the Lon and Ann Hays Professor and Chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Psychiatry. He is a public health researcher whose career has focused on developing and testing evidence-based interventions, including those for HIV and substance use disorders and cancer control. His current work seeks to evaluate, both nationally and internationally, the most promising behavioral and pharmacologic treatments aimed at achieving maximal efficacy for smoking cessation among people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Given the mission of the Bucksbaum-Siegler Institute, Dr. Himelhoch’s broad interdisciplinary focus and background in health services research is particularly compelling. As a certified trainer for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, Dr. Himelhoch is particularly invested in communication strategies utilized among providers to establish trusting relationships with their patients.