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Dr. Charles Samenow is a psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates, Inc.  He is trained in general adult psychiatry and has specialized interests in professional health and wellness, addictions, and psychosomatic medicine.  

Dr. Samenow's primary area of research has focused on interventions aimed at addressing professionalism in medical students, physicians and other professionals.  He has presented both nationally and internationally on physician and attorney health issues and has published peer reviewed articles on disruptive physician behaviors.  He has received multiple honors and awards including election to Phi Beta Kappa, receipt of the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation's Leadership Development Award, and the 1999 Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award presented on Capital Hill by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH).  In addition to teaching psychiatry residents and medical