Faculty and Administration

Charles Herrick, M.D.

Interim Dean of Clinical Science, Chief of Psychiatry

Dr. Herrick joined Danbury Hospital in June 1998, having moved from Manhattan, where he worked at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Herrick became the Chair of Psychiatry at Danbury Hospital in October 2006 and Chair of Psychiatry for Western Connecticut Health Network in April 2018. He is now the Network Chair of Psychiatry for Nuvance Health Network, which has merged with Northwell Health as of May 2025. He has worked in and overseen various programs at Danbury Hospital, including Consultation Services, Emergency Services, Inpatient Services, and Chemical Dependency Services. He has also served on numerous committees both for the hospital and the medical group at the state level, including the Quality Committee, Finance Committee, Compensation Committee, Ethics Committee, and the Behavioral Health Partnership Oversight Committee, which oversees Medicaid services for behavioral Health in the state of Connecticut. He currently serves on the Health Assistance Intervention Education Network (HAVEN) oversight committee, authorized by the state of Connecticut to serve impaired healthcare professionals.

Dr. Herrick graduated from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, completed his residency training in general psychiatry at Tufts, New England Medical Center Hospitals, and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Herrick’s clinical experience has been diverse in terms of patient population, practice setting, and geographic location. He has worked in Boston, San Francisco, and New York City before coming to Danbury. He has coauthored books on depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism, and smoking cessation for patients and their family members and has lectured on a variety of psychiatric and ethics topics to both medical audiences and the public.

Dr. Herrick is a member of the faculty at the University of Vermont Medical College, Ross University School of Medicine, American University of the Caribbean, and the University of Medicine and Health Sciences, where he serves as clinical chair and Interim clinical dean.   Dr. Herrick recently assisted with the development of the Nuvance Health Psychiatry Residency Training Program, which began in July ’20 and is currently serving as the Residency Training Program Director. Dr. Herrick has served on various boards, including the Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut and the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, which provides oversight of funding for the victims of Sandy Hook.