William Allen Schaffer, MD, FACP - Biography

Dr. Allen Schaffer is the Medical Director at The Acadia Hospital in Bangor, Maine. Dr. Schaffer received his medical degree from the University of Washington in Seattle.  He is board certified in Internal Medicine and prior to his training in Psychiatry he held clinical faculty appointments in the Departments of Medicine at the University Of Louisville, and at the University Of Connecticut. In 2005 he chose to pursue board certification in Psychiatry.  He completed his Residency in Psychiatry at the University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care in 2009.

Dr. Schaffer has held senior leadership positions in health care companies and has led hospital quality management and primary care delivery programs. He has also administered hospital and institutional programs, and managed a multi-office medical group practice.

He serves as a Trustee for the Judge David L Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law.  He completed an appointment on the Subcommittee on Pay for Performance convened by the Institute of Medicine in 2006.  He has previously served on the Boards of The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the National Advisory Board for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). 

A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Schaffer has published in numerous medical and professional journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Annals of Internal Medicine.