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Robert W. Guynn, M.D., professor and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, is a recognized authority in the field of psychiatric medicine. He is also involved in basic biochemical research.

Guynn is executive director of the UT-Harris County Psychiatric Center, a 250-bed psychiatric hospital that is jointly funded by the state and county and is staffed by the UT-Houston Medical School's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

He also directs UT-Houston's Mental Sciences Institute, where outpatient visits total more than 40,000 a year in the context of education and clinically oriented research.

Guynn serves on the medical school's clinical chief's policy and planning committee and is an active staff physician at Hermann Hospital, the school's primary teaching hospital.

He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Michigan State University in 1963 and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1967. Guynn completed his internship in 1968 at University Hospitals of Cleveland (Case Western Reserve) and went on for residency training at Phipps Clinic and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, from 1968-70. From 1970-73 he was a clinical fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

He joined the UT-Houston Medical School in 1973 as an assistant professor, became an associate professor in 1976 and professor in 1983. He was vice chairman from 1983-87.

Guynn is a member of several professional organizations, including the Society of Neuroscience, American Society of Biological Chemists, Biochemical Society, American Chemical Society and Research Society on Alcoholism.

He also is a member of the Harris County Medical Society (elected to Board of Ethics, 1988), American Psychiatric Association, Texas Society for Psychiatric Physicians, American Association of Psychiatric Administrators and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism.

Guynn is a charter member of the Texas Research Society on Alcoholism and served as membership committee chairman from 1981-82 and president from 1985-87. In 1986 he was elected a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and in 1987 he was elected to membership in the American College of Psychiatrists. He was elected president of the Houston Psychiatric Society in 1990.