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Management
Dr. Paul R. Ahr
President and Chief Executive Officer
Camillus House
Since 2004, Dr. Paul R. Ahr has served as president and chief executive officer of Camillus House, where he provides general oversight of day-to-day operations of this Roman Catholic non-profit organization.
A licensed psychologist with extensive experience in the mental health and rehabilitative treatment fields, Dr. Ahr is a former director of the State of Missouri’s Department of Mental Health (1979–1986) and former Assistant Commissioner for the Virginia Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation (1975–1979). In 1986, he founded the Altenahr Group, Ltd., a management consulting firm with offices in St. Louis, MO and Miami Beach, FL, consulting with over 150 major corporations, not-for-profit organizations and other agencies.
A native of New Jersey, Dr. Ahr was a cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame. He was awarded a doctorate degree in clinical psychology by the Catholic University of America and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California. He was a post-doctoral fellow in community mental health administration at the Harvard Medical School, and was awarded a certificate in international affairs by Washington University in St. Louis. He has held teaching posts at Boston University, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Southern California and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Dr. Ahr is the author of two books on public mental health services and co-authored a third book, on employee retention, with his son, Dr. Thomas B. Ahr. He is married to Patricia A. Forde, and together they have three additional children, Andrew, Victoria and Patricia, and two grandchildren, Matthew and Brian.
His latest book, The Gifts of Camillus: Celebrating the Life of a Ministry, is available by sending an email to contactus@camillus.org. His earlier release, Letters to Camillus: Autobiography of a Ministry, and its Spanish language version, Cartas a Camillus: Autobiografía de un Ministerio, are available through the Institute of Homeless Studies Press.
