Beatrix Ann Hamburg (née McCleary; October 19, 1923[1] – April 15, 2018) was an American psychiatrist whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
Hamburg was a president of the William T. Grant Foundation, and also directed the child psychiatry divisions at Stanford University and Mount Sinai.
[5] She received a Foremother Award for her lifetime of accomplishments from the National Research Center for Women & Families in 2012.
Her mother was a school teacher and a social worker while her grandfather was a Methodist minister and her grandmother was a homemaker.
In 2004, they co-authored a book called "Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development".
[11] Hamburg met her future husband David, an academic physician who has done mental health research, when they were both students at Yale University in 1948.
The two married in 1951,[10] and had two children: Eric, a filmmaker, and Margaret, a physician who served as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under President Barack Obama.