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.
How To Support
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.
Give to Bashford Alumni Education Fund Update Your Contact Information Join the Alumni Facebook GroupAlumni Committee
Suggestions on reinvigorating the Bashford Society? Want more information? Contact our alumni coordinator, Dr. Surabhi Kasera
Register for Grand Rounds
Need CE? We are excited to announce that for the first time, UNC Psychiatry will be opening up Grand Rounds to Alumni!
We invite you to join our UNC Psychiatry Grand Rounds Spring Series. This exclusive, credit-available opportunity features a wide range of mental health topics presented by local and nationally-renowned clinicians, researchers, and educators. Given the intricate nature of psychiatric disorders and the continuous advancements in psychiatric medicine and neuroscience, our Grand Rounds series offers mental health professionals a valuable chance to stay informed on relevant topics within their areas of interest.
Learn More and Register for Grand RoundsSupport 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.
Give to the Alumni FundThrough 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