H. Keith H. Brodie

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H. Keith H. Brodie (b. August 24, 1939, New Canaan, Connecticut) is an American psychiatrist, educator, and president of Duke University.

Brodie studied chemistry at Princeton University and medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed an internship in internal medicine at the Ochner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans and a residency in psychiatry at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Brodie taught at Stanford University from 1970 to 1974 and was chair of Stanford's Medical School Faculty Senate and director of the General Research Center.

In 1974, Brodie moved to Duke University to become chair of the department of psychiatry, with the encouragement of Ewald "Bud" Busse, who was leaving the chairmanship to become dean of the School of Medicine. He was later named James B. Duke Professor of Psychiatry and Law, became chancellor of Duke University in 1982, and became president of the university in 1985. He served as president from 1985 to 1993. After his term as president, Brodie continued teaching and clinical work.

Brodie received the A.E. Bennett Research Award from the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the psychopharmacology prize of the American Psychological Association, and the Edward A. Streck Award of the Pennsylvania Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Health System. He served as president of the American Psychiatric Association and chaired the Board of Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine of the Institute of Medicine.

As president of Duke University, Brodie helped to expand applications to graduate and undergraduate programs and increase Duke's national reputation as a research university. He also led efforts to increase racial/ethnic diversity among the faculty through the Black Faculty Initiative, a program that would be echoed by his successor, Nan Keohane, through the creation of the Women's Initiative.

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• Duke's Presidents
• Transcript of an Oral History Interview with H. Keith H. Brodie

Presidents of Duke University*

Brantley York (1838—1842) • Braxton Craven (1842—1863, 1866—1882) • Marquis Lafayette Wood (1883—1884) • John Franklin Crowell (1887—1894) • John Carlisle Kilgo (1894—1910) • William Preston Few (1910—1940) • Robert Lee Flowers (1941—1948) • Arthur Hollis Edens (1949—1960) • Julian Deryl Hart (1960—1963) • Douglas Maitland Knight (1963—1969) • Terry Sanford (1969—1985) • H. Keith H. Brodie (1985—1993) • Nannerl Overholser Keohane (1993—2004) • Richard H. Brodhead (2004—) * The institution was not officially established as Duke University until 1924.