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Dr. Bruce HarryBruce Harry was born and reared in Saint Louis, Missouri. He received his BA degree with honors in mathematics from the University of Missouri – Columbia. He then was awarded an MD Degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia, School of Medicine, after which he trained in both Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at that same institution.
He then studied Forensic Psychiatry with Park Dietz, MD, MPH, PhD, at Harvard. Dr Dietz graciously and generously introduced him first to Robert Ressler and John Douglas, and then to Roy Hazelwood, each with the Behavioral Sciences Unit at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Training Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Roy Hazelwood then introduced Bruce to Dr Ann W Burgess. |
He subsequently returned to join the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri – Columbia, School of Medicine. Bruce then did psychiatric evaluations for the Missouri State Board of Probation and Parole. Around that same time, he began working with the Missouri Department of Mental Health at Fulton State Hospital. While at the laSer, he worked in the Maximum, Intermediate, and Minimum-Security Units. At Fulton State Hospital, Bruce began working with and ultimately chaired the Forensic Review Committee, which reviewed psychiatric suitability for release of mentally disordered violent offenders who had been adjudicated Not Guilty by Reason of Mental Disease or Defect from the Secure Hospital setting to supervision in the community. He also evaluated Sexual Offenders for Missouri’s then new Sex Offender Commitment Law and evaluated inmates on Death Row in Missouri.
In addition, Bruce became an Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Missouri – Columbia, School of Law, where he co-taught seminars and courses on Mental Disability Law, Competence to Stand Trial and the Insanity Defense, and The Death Penalty in the United States, all over several years.
He eventually served as Clinical Directors of the respective Intermediate and Maximum-Security Units at Fulton State Hospital. Ultimately, he became the Clinical Director of Fulton State Hospital until 2013. He also was a Psychiatric Advisor to the 13th Judicial Circuit of Missouri’s Alternative Sentencing and Mental Health Courts.
In Psychiatry, Bruce is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, an Emeritus Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He was a Member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
More recently, Bruce has become an Associate Member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, and an Associate Member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. He also has become a Team ADAM Consultant for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Relative to his involvement with the IHIA, ICIAF, and NCMEC, Bruce has become interested in and contributed to the analysis of cold case violent crimes. As part of his Team ADAM consulting, Bruce participates in NCMEC’s Working Group on Fetal Abduction.
In addition, Bruce became an Adjunct Faculty Member of the University of Missouri – Columbia, School of Law, where he co-taught seminars and courses on Mental Disability Law, Competence to Stand Trial and the Insanity Defense, and The Death Penalty in the United States, all over several years.
He eventually served as Clinical Directors of the respective Intermediate and Maximum-Security Units at Fulton State Hospital. Ultimately, he became the Clinical Director of Fulton State Hospital until 2013. He also was a Psychiatric Advisor to the 13th Judicial Circuit of Missouri’s Alternative Sentencing and Mental Health Courts.
In Psychiatry, Bruce is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, an Emeritus Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists, a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He was a Member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.
More recently, Bruce has become an Associate Member of the International Homicide Investigators Association, and an Associate Member of the International Criminal Investigative Analysis Fellowship. He also has become a Team ADAM Consultant for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Relative to his involvement with the IHIA, ICIAF, and NCMEC, Bruce has become interested in and contributed to the analysis of cold case violent crimes. As part of his Team ADAM consulting, Bruce participates in NCMEC’s Working Group on Fetal Abduction.