YOUTUBE, YALE UNIVERSITYPsychiatrist Beatrix Hamburg, who studied school violence and peer counseling, died last Sunday (April 15) from Alzheimer’s disease. She was 94.
Hamburg was the first self-identifying black woman admitted to Vassar College and the first black woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine, where she became interested in behavioral studies and psychiatry. Her daughter, Margaret Hamburg, was the commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 2009 to 2015.
“She became one of the nation’s leading experts on the problems of adolescence and different stages of adolescence . . . during an era in which most people simply didn’t really think about them in any particular way or fashion,” Jack Barchas, chairman of Weill Cornell Medical College’s psychiatry department, said in a 2015 video that announced a humanitarian prize awarded to Hamburg and her husband, psychiatrist David Hamburg.
Throughout her career, Hamburg held ...
