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Dr. Bertram S. Brown was a key figure in the national effort to redefine and expand mental health services during the 1960s and 1970s. Dr. Brown's distinguished federal career at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) helped shape many of the decisions which led to these changes. His tenure at NIMH culminated in his appointment as the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health in 1970. Dr. Brown served under the successive administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. During this period, federal legislation expanded mental health care to more of the mentally ill while at the same time shifted responsibility for care from large state institutions to smaller community facilities with local control.

Dr. Brown's success was preceded by, and in large part the result of, a combination of talents and varied interests as a boy and student growing up in Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Brown was born in 1931 and received his early education at both public and private schools. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School to learn a mechanical trade and studied piano at the Juillard School of Music in New York City. Instead of pursuing a trade or studying music, however, Dr. Brown decided on a medical career. He attended Brooklyn College, tuition-free, in the post-War WWII years and received his B.A. degree in 1952. In 1956, he earned his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. At Cornell, Dr. Brown became interested in the political and regional issues which affect the delivery of health services and decided to add public health training to his education. Dr. Brown combined the study of medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, and public health from 1956 through 1960, and earned a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University School of Public Health in 1960. After completing an internship at Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (1956-1957), Dr. Brown became a Resident and Teaching Fellow at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (1957-1960).

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