Jeffrey Bennett, MD

Dr. Jeffrey I. Bennett joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Department of Psychiatry Residency Program in 2003.  He has since held several posts (Director, Division of Developmental Disabilities; Psychiatry Clerkship Director, and Director, Division of Adult Services).  In 2014, he became the Donnelly Family Endowed Professor in Developmental Disabilities and subsequently an SIU SOM Academy Scholar 2015.

Dr. Bennett completed medical school at New York University School of Medicine (1986) followed by a one-year Research Fellowship in Neurology at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore (1987). He completed his Psychiatry Residency at the University of Chicago (1991) after a medical internship at Michael Reese Hospital.  He subsequently finished a one year Fellowship in Neuropsychiatry (1992), becoming faculty at the University of Chicago (1993-2003).  He earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1978) followed by a year as a Research Associate in the Neurobiology Division at the University of California, San Francisco with Michael Dennis, Steve Hauser, and Leah Ziskind-Conhaim.

While an Instructor at the University of Chicago, he also served as a Neuropsychiatric Consultant for Tinley Park Mental Health Center and Midwest Neurological Rehabilitation Center in Waterford, Wisconsin (1992-93). He also consulted for W.A. Howe Development Center in Tinley Park, Illinois (1992-94).  He served as Medical Director at Jacksonville Developmental Center (2011-2012).

He is board certified in psychiatry. He currently serves as Immediate Past President for the Illinois Psychiatric Society.  He is a delegate to the Illinois State Medical Society, an Area 4 Representative to the American Psychiatric Association Assembly, and a member of the American Psychiatric Association Telepsychiatry and Membership Committees.  He is a member of American Neuropsychiatric Association, American Medical Association, and Association for Academic Psychiatry.