Names in the News

American Psychiatric Association (APA) members have selected Rahn Kennedy Bailey, M.D. , as the organization's president‐elect, an APA news release announced Feb. 10. Bailey is a board‐certified psychiatrist whose career spans clinical care, forensic practice, academic leadership, and national advocacy. He is currently assistant dean for Health Equity at Louisiana State University Health Science Center and psychiatric medical director of Orleans Parish Criminal Justice Center. For more than three decades, Bailey has worked in inpatient wards, courtrooms, classrooms and national associations to ensure that psychiatry is seen not only as a medical discipline but as a field that shapes public life, the news release stated. Bailey is a Distinguished Fellow of the APA and, among other accolades, has also been recognized with the organization's Chester Pierce Resident Research Award (1995), Solomon Carter Fuller Award (2024) and Presidential Commendation (2025). He also served as president of the National Medical Association 2012–2013 and is currently president of the Black Psychiatrists of America.