Patricia Montgomery Newton

Dr. Patricia Newton was an African-centered psychiatrist who founded the Black Psychiatrists of America in 1969 to address the inadequacies of European psychiatry in healing Black communities, growing it into an international organization where she served as President, CEO, and Medical Director.[1] She attended medical school and psychiatric training at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for over sixteen years, and was the first female chairperson of the Department of Psychiatry at Baltimore’s Provident Hospital.[1] Her clinical focus included anxiety disorders, PTSD, depression, chronic mental illness, and transcultural psychiatry bridging Western and Traditional African healing systems; she also founded Newton & Associates and Newton-Thoth, Inc.[1]