Dr. Thomas Gratzer has dedicated more than 30 years to general and forensic psychiatry. Based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, he has worked at notable hospitals such as Regions Hospital, United Hospital, Psych Recovery, and Fairview University Medical Center. Throughout his career, Dr. Gratzer maintained a busy practice, seeing up to 100 patients per week while conducting forensic evaluations regularly.
From 1995 to 2002, Dr. Gratzer was a Senior Forensic Psychiatrist at the Minnesota Security Hospital. He also served as a consulting psychiatrist for the Minnesota Department of Corrections, providing psychiatric care to incarcerated youth at the Juvenile Detention Center from 1999 to 2015. His clinical work extended to United Hospital, where he treated patients with severe psychiatric illnesses as an attending psychiatrist from 1995 to 2016.
In 1997, Dr. Gratzer was appointed medical staff president at St. Peter Regional Treatment Center, where he contributed to policy development and leadership. His dedication to education was evident through his work as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 2002 to 2021. In this role, he mentored medical students and psychiatry residents and lectured at institutions like the University of Manitoba and Rush-Presbyterian/St—Luke’s Medical Center.
Dr. Thomas Gratzer is an active member of professional organizations, including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. His commitment to advancing forensic psychiatry is reflected in his work on committees such as the Sex Offender Committee, where he contributed to addressing critical mental health and legal issues.
Beyond psychiatry, Dr. Gratzer has a background in computer science. He won first prize at the Manitoba Science Fair in 1991 for a computer program and co-authored a book on the TRS-80 computer, selling 10,000 copies. He also helped develop VP-Info, a programming language for IBM PCs.
Dr. Thomas Gratzer has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, contributing valuable research to forensic psychiatry. Though retired, he remains dedicated to supporting mental health causes and regularly donates to his university’s foundation.
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