Dr. John Barnhill is Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation-Liaison Service at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill CornellMedical Center. In that role, he helps supervise a team of students and residents who perform psychiatric consultations throughoutNYPH as well as at the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Dr. Barnhill is Chair of Weill Cornell Medical College's General Faculty Council and is involved in a variety of hospital, medical college, departmental, and national committees, most of which have to do with education and medical ethics.
In addition to teaching medical students and psychiatric residents at Weill Cornell, Dr. Barnhill is site director of the psychosomatic medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is a lecturer in psychoanalysis at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Dr. Barnhill graduated with high honors from Duke University in 1981 and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 1985, where he won the Alumni Award for Service. He completed his psychiatry residency at Payne Whitney Clinic, NYPH/Weill Cornell Medical Center in 1989, and then completed psychoanalytic training at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in 1996.
