Frank Shelp

Psychiatrist, public administrator, and mental health policy expert Dr. Frank Shelp most recently served as Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD). Through August of 2012, Dr. Frank Shelp, the first commissioner of this new department, helped bring a more comprehensive level of care to the state.

Dr. Shelp is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Prior to his tenure at DBHDD, Dr. Frank Shelp served as Vice President of Medical Affairs at First Health Services; he also served as the company's Chief Marketing Officer.

As a member of Eastern Mennonite University's Science Commission, Dr. Shelp assists in the campaign to raise money for an expansion and renovation of the school's science center. He additionally supports the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dr. Frank Shelp earned his MD from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. His postgraduate training included a psychiatry residency at Duke University Medical Center and a geriatrics fellowship at the school's Center for the Study of Aging. Dr. Shelp holds a Master's of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. Double majoring, he earned his undergraduate degrees, a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Biology, from Eastern Mennonite University (formerly Eastern Mennonite College).