Candidate for 2025 President-Elect
Biography
Rahn Kennedy Bailey, M.D., has served as the LSU Kathleen & John Bricker Health Sciences Center Chair of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean of Community Engagement since 2021. Additionally, as of 2024, he serves as the Academic Medical and Psychiatric Director for the New Orleans Correctional Justice Center Mental Health Services Unit. He has served as Chairman of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College, 2008-2014, Wake Forest Medical School, 2015-2018, and National Medical Association, 2002-2006.
Dr. Bailey’s early research focused on Psychotic Disorders/SPMI, grew to include Depressive Illness/Bipolar Mood D/O, expanded to forensic topics, Competency, Confidentiality, and Risk Management. Currently, his focus is Health Disparities, Healthcare Reform, and Violence.
He has 86 peer reviewed publications in over 20 refereed journals and published three books: Health Disparities, 2013, Gun Violence, 2018, and Intimate Partner Violence, 2020.
Dr. Bailey is an advocate for change. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, NMA/Cobb Research Foundation 2018-2022. He chaired the National Alumni Council Board of Trustees of the National Medical Fellowships, 2015-17 and completed a six-year term on Rutgers State University Board of Trustees, 2014-2020.
He served as the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, AAPL, Board of Trustees, 1999- 2005, 113th President of NMA, 2013, NMA Board of Trustees 2006-2014. In 2006, he was selected by his peers as NMA Physician of the Year during the Hurricane Katrina crisis. He was selected Outstanding Faculty Member at UT Houston, 2000, AMA Co-Chairman of the Commission to End Health Disparities, 2012-13. In 2022, Dr. Bailey received the National Medical Association Ernest Y. Williams, M.D. Clinical Scholars of Distinction Award. He was elected the 2023-25 Chair of the APA Caucus on Global Mental Health and Psychiatry and received the Solomon Carter Fuller Award at the APA Spring conference 2024.
His work has been seminal in assisting communities in caring for the health of patients, developing strategies to improve their health paradigms, and working to enhance the lives of young professionals via mentorship and professional development and authorship.