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Vision Creating an exceptional educational environment is the heart of our vision for the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Our mission is to provide lifelong educational activities for students, clinicians and investigators. We offer training at every level of professional development with the goal of training clinicians and investigators for the challenges of the twenty-first century. Trainees have opportunities to specialize, pursue unique interests and develop as leaders in community based practice and academia. The necessary close relationship between our training program and those in other medical specialties is highlighted by a joint medicine/psychiatry residency program and programs in medical psychology, which focus upon behavioral interventions for chronic medical illnesses. Training programs in the department take advantage of a broad range of clinical settings, research labs and technology-based teaching aids. The cornerstone of training, however, is mentorship of trainees by experienced clinicians and investigators, relationships that continue for many years beyond formal training. Dan Blazer, M.D., Ph.D., History The Duke University Medical Center started in 1924 with a $10 million bequest from James B. Duke to build a hospital and medical school, with two goals in mind: to improve the quality of medical care and to create excellence in medical education. Mr. Duke's vision has been realized. Duke University Medical Center is recognized worldwide as one of the nation's leading health centers, and Duke University School of Medicine is consistently ranked among the top five medical schools in the country on both subjective and objective measures. Over the years, the Duke Department of Psychiatry has increased in depth and breadth of its clinical, research and educational activities. The department first achieved national prominence in the mid-1950's under the chairmanship of Dr. Ewald Busse (1953-1974). A past president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Busse is considered by many to be the founder of geriatric psychiatry. He is now emeritus professor of psychiatry and remains active in academic pursuits at Duke. The next chairperson, Dr. H. Keith Brodie (1974-1982), also became president of the APA, and later, Chancellor and President of the university. His successor, Dr. Barney Carroll (1983-1990), is a major contributor to our understanding of the neuroendocrinology of mood disorders. Dr. Dan Blazer (1990-1992) served as interim chairperson and then Dean of Medical Education at Duke. He is renown for his research in psychiatric epidemiology and geriatric psychiatry. He returns to the Department of Psychiatry as Vice Chair for Education. Dr. Allen Frances (1992-1998) successfully steered the department through years of change stimulated by managed care pressures on academic health centers and is perhaps best known for his work in constructing the DSM-IV and a number of groundbreaking practice guidelines in psychiatry. Our current chairman, Dr. Ranga Krishnan, combines his prodigious talents as a research clinician with his complete dedication to continuing the tradition of excellence of the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Krishnan has been a clinician, investigator and teacher at the Medical Center for many years, and is a strong supporter of the Department's many educational programs. In the residency program, he has served as an active mentor, lecturer and consultant. Up before the dawn, Dr. Krishnan leads a hardy group of residents in the Monday 7:30 am Chairman's Rounds---a challenging evidence-based discussion of difficult cases and thorny clinical problems.
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