James L Griffith, MD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. Dr Griffith received his MD in 1976, followed by Neurology Residency and an MS in Neurophysiology at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1979. He completed Psychiatry Residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1983, followed by a Clinical and Research Fellowship in 1985. Dr Griffith has developed a model of psychiatric residency training that balances biological and psychosocial therapies in the treatment of patients within their family, community, and cultural contexts.
