Dr. Alexander H. Sackeyfio, MD

Expert Publications

• The prevalence of peripheral neuropathy in patients with anorexia nervosa.
• Osteoporotic stress fractures in anorexia nervosa: etiology, diagnosis, and review of four cases.

Media Releases

Dr. Sackeyfio’s long and distinguished career in psychiatry began in 1972 when he graduated from the University of Glasgow Faculty of Medicine in Glasgow, United Kingdom. After an internship and residency in Scotland, Dr. Sackeyfio moved to the United States and completed a further residency at the Clinton Valley Center in Pontiac, Michigan. Dr. Alexander H. Sackeyfio is a vastly experienced psychiatrist who has been in practice for over four decades. Dr. Sackeyfio is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and he diagnoses and treats a wide range of conditions in adult patients. Conditions treated by him include bipolar disorder, anxiety depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, and schizophrenia. He is also renowned as an expert in the treatment of eating disorders including bulimia and anorexia nervosa. Alexander H. Sackeyfio, MD, is a Psychiatrist with his own practice, and is affiliated with William Beaumont Hospital. Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

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