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Barbara M. Rohland, M.D., M.S. received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979. She attended the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver and received a Master of Science degree in Human Genetics in 1981. After working as a genetic counselor for several years, she enrolled in medical school and earned her medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis in 1989. After completing internship and residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, she completed a NIMH sponsored fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. |
Following completion of her fellowship, Dr. Rohland joined the faculty of the University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry as an Assistant Professor. Her particular clinical and research interest was mental health services to persons who live in rural areas.
While in Iowa she established outreach programs including on-site consultation to nursing homes and telemedicine services to hospitals in rural counties. She founded and directed the Iowa Consortium for Mental Health Services Training and Research, an interdisciplinary collaborative effort between mental health researchers and state government. Funded by the Iowa Department of Human Services from the SAMHSA block grant to the state, the purpose of this project was to promote public-academic collaboration in order to enhance training for mental health care providers who work in community based programs and to promote mental health services research in the state of Iowa. The focus of all projects was community-based services to persons with serious mental illness who received services in the public sector.
In July of 1999, Dr. Rohland joined the faculty of Texas Tech University as an Associate Professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Health Services Research and a secondary appointment in Neuropsychiatry. In August of 2000, she became the program director of a $1.8M Aging Research and Training project funded by the Administration on Aging. In that role, she has responsibility for the implementation, administration and oversight of research, educational, and outreach projects that will support Texas Tech in its commitment to serve elder residents of West Texas and, in particular, to meet the age related health needs of rural, Hispanic and other minority populations who constitute a large and expanding segment of the aging West Texas community.
Dr. Rohland has published and lectured widely on issues of quality and access to mental health services, particularly community based services in the public sector and in rural settings. She reviews articles for journals including Psychiatric Services, the Community Mental Health Journal, and the Journal of Rural Health. In addition to her involvement in the AACP she is a member of the American Psychiatric Society and the American College of Physician Executives. She is also an examiner for American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. In 1999, she was the recipient of an Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), Iowa Affiliate.
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