Rahn K. Bailey

Rahn K. Bailey, M.D., FW ’95, associate professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Meharry Medical College, was installed as president of the National Medical Association (NMA) on July 31 at the association’s 2012 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in New Orleans. NMA is the largest and oldest national organization representing African-American physicians and the patients they serve. A graduate of Morehouse College, Bailey received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the University of Texas at Houston and completed a fellowship in forensic psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine.