The basis for this award is Dr. Rogoff's distinguished career as a forensic psychiatrist and as a psychoanalyst, including nineteen years as Chief of the inpatient psychiatry unit at a Harvard teaching hospital (Faulkner/Brigham). In addition to his professional public responsibilities, his private practice and teaching psychodynamic psychiatry to at least two generations of younger psychiatrists, Jerry has served the Massachusetts Psychiatric Association as president, and the American Psychiatric Association (of which he is a Distinguished Life Fellow) in official capacities for many years.
Jerry continues with his practice of general adult and forensic psychiatry and psychoanalysis, including as an expert for the national Innocence Project, and is an advisory board member of the Center for Prosecutor Integrity.