Background
Bell, James Milton was born on November 5, 1921 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Lucy (Barnes) Bell.
Bell, James Milton was born on November 5, 1921 in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Edward and Lucy (Barnes) Bell.
Student, Virginia State College, 1940. Bachelor of Science, North Carolina Center University (formerly North Carolina College), 1943. Doctor of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1947.
With, Harlem Hospital, New York City, 1947-1948;
assistant physician to clinical director, Lakin (West Virginia) Eastern State Hospital, New York City, 1948-1951;
fellow general psychiatry, Menninger School Psychiatry-Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1953-1956;
training child psychiatry, Menninger School Psychiatry-Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1957-1958;
resident, Winter Veterans Administration Hospital., Topeka, 1953-1956;
assistant section chief children's unit, Topeka Eastern State Hospital, 1956-1958;
clinical teaching staff, Menninger School Psychiatry, 1956-1958;
clinical director, psychiatrist, Berkshire Farm Center and Superior vena cava syndrome for Youth, Canaan, New York, 1959-1986;
senior child and adolescent psychiatrist, Berkshire Farm Center and Superior vena cava syndrome for Youth, Canaan, New York, 1986-1997. Member of New York State post-Vietnam planning committee, 1968, vice chairman subcom.on returning veteran, 1968. Clinical assistant to clinical professor psychiatry Albany Medical College, Union U., 1959-1997, member admission committee, 1972-1979.
Psychiatrist-in-charge Albany Home for Children, New York, 1959-1977. Staff psychiatrist Parsons Child and Family Center, 1977-1997, staff member adoption service and foster care, 1995-1997. Assistant dispensary to dispensary psychiatrist Albany Medical Center Clinic, 1960.
Trainee consultant Albany Child Guidance Center Psychiatric Svc., Inc., 1961. consultant Keller United States Army Hospital, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Delegate White House Conference on Children, member Executive Committee, governor's state wide committee, 1970. Lecturer in field; speaker in field worldwide.
Participant in conferences, hospitals, state/government committees.
Consultant Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, New York, 1965. Instructional staff Frederick Amman Memorial Institute Delinquency and Crime, St. Lawrence University, 1965-1970. Consultant adolescence New York State Division Youth, 1966-1976, member medical review board, 1974-1976.
Member Child Abuse Advisory Council, Albany. Board directors, member committee on proposed policy New York Spaulding for Children, vice president, 1988-1989. Board directors, executive committee Guold Farm, Barrington, Massachusetts.
Life member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Honorary life board member Parsons Child and Family Center, Albany, New York, 1995-1997. Captain Medical Corps, Army of the United States, 1951-1953.
Colonel United States Army Reserve, 1955-1985. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (life), American Psychiatric Association (life, panelist on child & adolescent psychiatry 1963, chairman council national affairs 1973-1975, past vice-chairman), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (life, chairman committee psychiatric facilities for children and adolescence 1973-1975), American Orthopsychiat. Association (life, past director), American Society Adolescent Psychiatry (life), New York Academy of Sciences, American College Psychiatrists (past member Stanley Dean award committee), American Psychopathol.
Association; member American Medical Association, American Academy Political and Social Science, American Society Addiction Medicine, Black Psychiatrists American, Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (committee on child psychiatry), Institute Religion and Health (charter), Council for Exceptional Children, National Association Training Schools and Juvenile Agencies, Association New York Educators of Emotionally Disturbed, Medical Society State New York (life), Columbia Country medical associations, Child Care Workers (board directors New York ), Association Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders, New York State Society Medical Research, New York Capitol District Council Child Psychiatry (president 1974), American Legion (life), Rotary (annual participant youth leadership conference, Youth Leadership award 1992), Alpha Omega Alpha.