The Robert Bashford UNC Department of Psychiatry Alumni Society

About the Society

The Robert Bashford UNC Department of Psychiatry Alumni Society is a new and exciting group dedicated to enhancing the connection between past, present and future clinicians and researchers who have trained or served as faculty at UNC. The Robert Bashford Alumni Society is a revitalized and reinvigorated addition to the George C. Ham Society established in the ea rly 1980’s as a way to honor the founder and first Chairman of the UNC Department of Psychiatry. It is our hope to now honor the late Dr. Bashford, a man who contributed an enormous amount of character and charisma to our department, while also fostering a sense of modernized community.

Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody is now the chair of the UNC Department of Psychiatry, and has made a great point of emphasis thus far to engage current and former TarHeels and bring back regular alumni meetings and events. This alumni society is conceived as a venue wherein alumni and alumni of the Department can meet to share memories and experiences, as well as professional expertise.

Support our Education Mission

Donations to the Bashford Alumni Society Fund help us send our residents to conferences, buy materials, host the intern retreat, cover meals during didactics and celebrate thank a resident day! Help us provide opportunities for our trainees and expand the resources we are able to provide for our next generation of learners.

Through this philanthropy fund to our department, through the Robert Bashford fund, a beloved faculty member who was so enormously dedicated to education, this funding allows us to have our residents have really unique experiences in a variety of things in research, in specialty rotations, in global mental health, attending conferences and doing things that enables them to grow and learn, become nationally prominent, and to be able to come away from UNC having had a truly superb training experience.– Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, Chair

For more information on supporting the Department of Psychiatry through philanthropy, please contact Holli Gall, Senior Executive Director of Development and Communications at the UNC Health Foundation.

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There were so many offerings! You had your standard rotations and clinics, but also at UNC, we did rotations where you were the overnight person and you would cover the emergency department. That really prepares you, I left Carolina knowing I could handle anything.
Dr. Kelly Adams, Director of Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Management University of California, San Diego

The faculty at UNC really modeled excellent patient care, both in terms of having a really excellent knowledge base but also really caring for patients and caring what happens to patients. Because of my training at UNC, I know what high quality eating disorders treatment looks like, I know what high quality peripartum psychiatry care looks like.
Dr. Emily Holmes, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Indiana University

Alumni Committee

Suggestions on reinvigorating the Bashford Society? Want more information? Contact our alumni coordinator, Dr. Surabhi Kasera