Dr. Ken Fleishman graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies. He spent the next 2 years working directly with children in a variety of treatment programs and school settings, then 3 years researching biological cell function, biochemical energy theory and membrane survivability media. He attended the East Carolina University School of Medicine in Greenville; graduating with Honors in Psychiatry and Pediatrics, membership in AOA, the Medical Honor Society, and received the Philip G. Nelson Psychiatry Award and Beverly Geriatric Medicine Award. Dr. Fleishman completed his residency in General Psychiatry at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland and his residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia where he was Chief Resident. During his residency he received the following awards: the Clarence G. Schulz, M.D. Prize for Best Resident Paper, the American Psychoanalytic Association Resident Fellowship and the Association for Academic Psychiatry/Mead Johnson Fellowship. He remains on the Clinical Faculty at the Emory University School of Medicine and the Morehouse University School of Medicine. Dr. Fleishman was Board Certified in 1996 and Re-Certified in 2006 for General Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dr. Fleishman has been working with children at Laurel Heights since 1996. He believes strongly in a strength based, family focused model of care, utilizing each child and family's unique talents, abilities and perceptions to understand the areas of difficulty and guide their treatment.