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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Albert Moore Barrett, M.D. (1871-1936), an American physician, was professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and credited with the establishment of the first psychiatric hospital within a university.Barrett was born in Austin, Illinois, and was the son of a Methodist minister. He attended the State University of Iowa, earning a Bachelor’s of Arts (A.B.) in 1893 and a medical degree (M.D.) in 1895. Following graduation, he received appointments as pathologist and assistant physician at the Independence State Hospital for the Insane in Independence, Iowa. Before reporting for duty, he worked under Adolf_Meyer_(psychiatrist), M.D., the neuropathologist, at the State Mental Hospital in Kankakee, Illinois. According to Meyer, Barrett was interested in learning to conduct autopsies and to study the human brain. In 1897, Barrett moved to the State Mental Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts as an assistant physician. In 1900, Barrett spent a year in Heidelberg, Germany, studying with Franz Nissl, Alois Alzheimer, and Emil Kraepelin. Upon his return to the United States, he was appointed assistant physician and pathologist at the Danvers State Hospital (also known as the State Lunatic Hopital at Davners and State Insane Asylum) in Massachusetts, and assistant professor in neuropathology at the Harvard Medical School.In 1906, he was invited to join the University of Michigan Medical School. William J. Henderson, M.D, the professor of nervous and mental diseases, was planning to open a small psychiatric hospital to be part of both the university and the state mental health system. The new State Psychopathic Hospital was to provide care of patients, and for the study and research in neuropathology of mental illness. The Michigan state legislature authorized the facility in 1905, and it was opened in 1906. Barrett was the director. Barrett was named professor of nervous and mental diseases in 1907. He stayed in his post until 1920 when nervous diseases became a separate department. He was considered a successful teacher and some of his students became leaders in American psychiatry. His career in developing a full-fledged university clinic associated with both a university and state mental hospital system led the way for similar institutions to be established in other states. During World War I, he trained the Medical Corps officers in psychiatry.Barrett was active in medical organizations. He was President of the American Psychiatric Association from 1921 to 1922. In 1936, he was elected President of the American Neurological Association, but he died shortly before assuming the office. He was President of the Central Neuropsychiatric Association, and the Detroit Neurological Society. He served on the Editorial Boards of the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He died of cardiac disease in 1936.. }

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