Earlier this week, Rahn Kennedy Bailey was installed as president of the National Medical Association, an organization representing 30,000 African-American physicians nationwide. He is the association’s 113th president and will serve a one-year term.
Dr. Bailey is chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He is board certified in general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.
Dr. Bailey is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta. He received his medical training at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.