Linda Blanco
Kenneth H. Bryant
Laurie Cestnick
Shannon Cothran
Michael G. Hehir
Elisabeth (Beth) Lembo
Shannon J. McNamara
Judit Price
Marla Stone
James N. Stone
Robert (Buck) A. Weaver
Linnea Weaver
Monika E. Wilkinson
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Kenneth H. Bryant , M.D.
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Dr. Bryant has been with Weaver Center, formerly Weaver Clinic, since 1995, providing medical consultation and ongoing psychopharmacological management for children, adolescents and adults.
He grew up in a small country town in Eastern Australia, attended a private boarding school in Sydney and graduated as WWII started in 1939. In 1940 he was accepted at the Royal Australian Naval College, and in 1941, as a cadet midshipman, was appointed to a heavy cruiser patrolling and escorting troopships in the Indian Ocean. In December 1941, Japan and USA entered the war and the ship moved to the Pacific theater in response and operated in the Coral Sea. As the war progressed there were other ships and theaters of operation from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Eastern Indian Ocean and finally in the sea/air operations in the US/British task force off Japan. Then the atom bomb ended the war. He served three more years at sea and shared his cabin with the ship’s doctor, who urged him to apply for medical school. Later, at Adelaide University, South Australia, that doctor was his neuroanatomy professor.
In 1954, Kenneth Bryant graduated from medical school and did his General Residency at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was inspired by his psychiatrist teacher, Dr. John Cawte, who showed him how fear and stigma could be removed when working with psychiatric patients. In 1957, Dr. Bryant left general practice and began psychiatric training at Melbourne University and completed it in 1960. He qualified with a Diploma of Psychological Medicine, became a Member, then a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. During and after his training, he developed a strong interest in the emerging specialty of Child Psychiatry.
In 1963 he was accepted into the two-year Boston University training program in Child Psychiatry, and moved with his family to Massachusetts. After that training he was recruited to head one of the earliest of the network of Child Guidance Centers, in Lowell. At that time he also started his own private office practice of Child Psychiatry, which continues today in Weaver Center. He was fortunate to have been able to learn with a number of creative teachers. With time and experience he had more administrative posts. He was Director of Service or Superintendent in several hospitals, as well as Director of Legal Medicine and a hospital licensing inspector for the DMH. Ultimately, it was his work with children that he found the most challenging and important.
Looking back over 50 years of evolution of Child Psychiatry, Dr. Bryant sees how diagnoses and evaluations are more refined and differentiated, treatment approaches are broadened, and research tools have unlocked concepts of how brains develop and function. Medications for many conditions are available. In addition, international, national and state rules protect children’s rights. Binding this knowledge together to help children recognize their strengths and overcome the barriers to their real potential is a core task at the Weaver Center.
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