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  Welcome Dr. Shale
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Serenity Foundation of Texas, dba, Serenity House of Abilene, Fredericksburg, and Wichita Falls, is pleased to announce a new member of our staff family. J.H. (Jack) Shale, MD, JD is now serving as Neuropsychiatric Director for Serenity’s three campuses.

Dr. Shale resides in Temple, Texas and will travel regularly to both Fredericksburg and Abilene treatment centers. He will be in daily contact with both centers by teleconferencing systems. Serenity is thrilled to have him join our work.

Dr. Shale received his MD from the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He did an internship in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a residency in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a Masters of Health Services Administration from the Harvard School of Public Health and his JD from the University of San Diego.

Dr. Shale is Board Certified in General Psychiatry and licensed to practice medicine in California, Massachusetts and Texas. He is admitted to the bar in California. Dr. Shale served for 25 years on active duty in the US Navy Medical Corps retiring at the rank of Captain. He served as a flight surgeon including a tour as Senior Medical Officer on an aircraft carrier and Senior Medical Officer for a deployed Carrier Battle Group. He was deployed in the First Gulf War in support of the Second Marine Division Kuwait. His personal decorations include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal and Navy Commendation Medal with gold star. He was also an administrative law judge at the appellate level of the Navy disability system.

Dr. Shale was Medical Director of Adult Mental Health for San Diego County from 2001 to 2005. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine and formerly an Adjunct Professor at the USD School of Law.

He is a member and past chair of the State Bar of California’s Oversight Committee for the Lawyer Assistance Program and formerly a member of the California Medical Board’s Physician Diversion Program and chair of a Diversion Evaluation Committee.

 

 

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