Jeanne M. Spurlock, M.D.

Dr. Spurlock received a medical degree from Howard University in 1947 and then undertook postgraduate training in Chicago at Provident Hospital, Cook County Hospital, and the Institute for Juvenile Research. She completed psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1962.  From 1960 to 1968, she was chief of the child psychiatry clinic and attended psychiatrists at Michael Resse Hospital in Chicago. And clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

In 1968, she was named chairperson of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College, a position she held until 1973. In addition to directing the office of Minority and National Affairs at the APA since 1974, Dr. Spurlock was a clinical professor of psychiatry at both George Washington University and Howard University Medical Schools and maintained a private practice in Washington, DC.  She was a member of the editorial boards of The Pharos, the Journal of Psychiatric Education, and Women in Context: Development and Stresses. 

Dr. Spurlock sat on the board of directors of the National Urban League from 1970 to 1978, again from 1979 to 1985, and of the Carnegie Corporation from 1973 to 1980.  In 1983, she was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from Howard University College of Medicine and of an honorary Doctor of Science from Spelman College and was also the recipient of the Solomon Carter Fuller Award in 1988. 

 

Read more about Jeanne Spurlock, M.D. Minority Fellowship Achievement Award, here