He is a board-certified psychiatrist with over 30 years of experience in general and forensic psychiatry in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

He has worked at various St. Paul and Minneapolis hospitals, including Psych Recovery, Regions Hospital, United Hospital, and Fairview University Medical Center.

He typically has about 100 patient visits per week, plus several forensic evaluations weekly. He is soon to return to practice at Psych Recovery.

He was a Senior Forensic Psychiatrist at the Minnesota Security Hospital from 1995 to 2002, and a consulting psychiatrist for the Minnesota Department of Corrections at the Juvenile Detention Center from 1999 to 2015, providing psychiatric care to incarcerated youth.

He served as an attending psychiatrist at United Hospital in St. Paul from 1995 until 2016, caring for patients with severe psychiatric disorders.

Yes — he was medical staff president at the St. Peter Regional Treatment Center in 1997, contributing to institutional policy-making.

He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Medical School from 2002 to 2021, and has lectured to medical students, psychiatry residents, and law students at institutions including the University of Manitoba, Rush-Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center, DePaul Law School, and Regions Hospital.

He is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and the Minnesota Psychiatric Association, and has served on committees such as the Sex Offender Committee and the Psychopharmacology Committee of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

Yes — in computer science. In 1991 he won first prize for a computer program at the Manitoba Science Fair and participated in Prince Philip’s International Science Fortnight in London. In college he co-authored a book on the TRS-80 computer, which sold ten thousand copies.

From 1984 to 1990, he participated in developing and designing VP-Info, a database programming language for the IBM PC, published by Paperback Software International in Berkeley, CA, which sold over 100,000 copies.

His peer-reviewed publications cover topics such as the treatment of paraphilia and impulse control disorders, the impact of legal frameworks on mental health practices, and approaches to managing compulsive sexual behavior.

He won the Merrell Dow Psychiatric Research Award for the best scientific paper presented by a psychiatry resident (June 1994) and the S. W. Prowse Memorial Award for Clinical Research at the University of Manitoba (1994). Nationally, he was a Rappeport Fellow of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (1983–1984) and received Honorable Mention (2nd prize) for best paper by a fellow in forensic sciences from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (January 1994).

He attended Saint John’s Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg, graduating with distinction and earning the Governor General’s medal. He received his Bachelor of Science in Medicine and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Manitoba, where he also completed his psychiatry residency, followed by a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Rush-Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Center in Chicago.

Rotations included Adult Outpatient, Chronic Care, Adolescent Psychiatry, Forensics, Research and Clinical Forensics, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry.

He was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, to a family of academics and physicians — his father was a mathematics professor at Penn State before moving to Winnipeg, his mother is a retired dentist, and his brother and sister-in-law are physicians in Toronto.

He is married to Denise, a marketing professor who owns a marketing agency, and his stepdaughter Tanya is in the Navy’s JAG corps. His hobbies include tennis, skiing, exercising, traveling, and enjoying good food, and he is a regular donor to his university’s foundation.

Dr. Thomas Gratzer lives Edina, Minnesota.