Bertram S. Brown | |
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Director of the National Institute of Mental Health | |
In office 1970–1977 | |
Preceded by | Stanley F. Yolles |
Succeeded by | Herb Pardes |
Personal details | |
Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | January 28, 1931
Died | May 14, 2020 Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, U.S. | (aged 89)
Education | Brooklyn College Cornell University medical school Harvard University |
Bertram S. Brown (January 28, 1931 – May 14, 2020) was an American psychiatrist who was the head of the National Institute of Mental Health from 1970 to 1977, Assistant Surgeon General from 1978 to 1980, rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and president and chief executive of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia from 1983 until his retirement in 1987. He pioneered research in psychiatry, especially in mental disabilities.[1]