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 FacultyCouncil 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 residentsat Weill Cornell, Dr. Barnhill is site director of the psychosomatic medicine fellowship at Memorial Sloan-KetteringCancer Center and is a lecturer in psychoanalysis at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
Dr. Barnhill graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, where he won the Alumni Award for Service. He completed his psychiatry residency at Payne Whitney Clinic, NYPH/Weill Cornell Medical Center and then did psychoanalytic training at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
