Paul Summergrad • Roger G. Kathol
Editors

2014

Redefining the Role of Mental Health
Professionals in the Medical Setting

It is not unexpected that the two of us responded positively when approached 2 years ago by Springer to edit a book on the integration of medical and psychiatric care for psychiatrists. Both of us developed an interest in the orphan population composed of patients with comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions during medical school. Both of us completed internal medicine and psychiatric residencies. Both of us, thereafter, have dedicated our professional lives to fostering better care for patients with concurrent mental health/substance use disorders, hereafter called behavioral health (BH) disorders, and medical conditions.