Dr. Jonathan Sherin, Principal and CEO of “The Eudaemonia Group”, is a psychiatrist and neurobiologist by trade. He serves on multiple public and private boards to advance the health, wellbeing and connectedness of disenfranchised populations domestically and internationally.

Before his recent retirement after decades of public service, Dr. Sherin directed the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health as well as Mental Health Departments for the Veteran’s Health Administration. Throughout his career he has driven wholesale systems transformation and policy reform with a “heart forward”, speak truth to power style based on his conviction that the grass-roots must inform and drive the grass-tops. He has a wide range of interests that include: developing holistic, community-based settings for the most ill (in lieu of institutionalization); showcasing the importance of lived-experience to reengineer access strategies in the health and human service industry; developing humanitarian approaches to involuntary treatment that incorporate both autonomy and paternalism; and reorienting government funding mechanisms to focus on client outcomes and community wellbeing rather than billing and reimbursement.

In addition to his body of work in the healthcare 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 American Psychiatric Association for his 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, sailor, cook and writer.