Charles Kelso Billings

Background

Billings, Charles Kelso was born on January 19, 1947 in Cookeville, Tennessee, United States.

Education

Bachelor cum laude with honors in Psychology, Vanderbilt University, 1965-1969; Doctor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, 1969-1973.

Career

Rotating internship, Philadelphia General Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, 1973-1974; phychiatry residency, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1974-1976; staff psychiatrist, Ochsner Clinic, Ochsner Foundation Hospital, since 1976; medical director, acute psychiatry unit, Ochsner Foundation Hospital, 1978-1991; associate chairman, department psychiatry, Ochsner Clinic, since 1979; director, psychiatry residency training, Alton Ochsner Foundation, since 1981; assistant clinical professor psychiatry, Tulane University School Medicine, 1985-1989; associate clinical professor psychiatry, Tulane University School Medicine, since 1989; associate clinical professor psychiatry, Louisiana State University, School Medicine, since 1987; medical director, anxiety disorders program, Ochsner Clinic, since 1991; medical director mood disorders program, Ochsner Clinic, since 1992; acting chairman, department psychiatry, Ochsner Clinic, since 1993. Clinical clerkship Department Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, England., summer 1972. Research therapist University of Pennsylvania, 1975-1976.

Principal investigator Ochsner Clinic, 1987-1988, 1991-1994. Co-principal research investigator Ochsner Clinic/Louisiana State University, 1992-1994. Chairman Psychiatry Research Committee Ochsner Clinic, since 1991.

Co-investigator Ochsner Clinic/Louisiana State University, 1993-1994. Examiner American Board Psychiatry and Neurology Oral Exam, 1979, 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 91.

Achievements

• Charles Kelso Billings has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Senior warden Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, 1988-1989. Fellow American Association Social Psychiatry (chairman scientific program committee 1987, councillor 1989-1992), American Psychiatric Association (local arrangements committee 1991), Southern Psychiatric Association (program committee 1985-1991, chairman scientific program committee 1990, 1991, board regents 1991-1994, chairman 1993-1994). Member American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American Association Dirs.

Psychiatry Residency Training, Academy Psychosomatic Medicine, Louisiana Psychiatric Association (committee continuing education 1985, committee pub.affairs since 1985, ethics committee 1986-1989), Louisiana State Medical Society, New Orleans Area Psychiatric Association (executive county 1987-1988), Orleans Parish Medical Society (program committee since 1992), Southern Medical Association, National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association.

Interests

• Avocations: bird watching, archeology, american civil war.

Connections

Son of Charles Kelso Senior and Connie (Gore) B. Divorced; children: Charles Julian, Curtis Gore, Benjamin McGehee.

Father:

Charles Kelso Senior Billings

Mother:

Connie (Gore) Billings

child:

Curtis Gore Billings

child:

Benjamin McGehee Billings

child:

Charles Julian Billings