James L. Griffith, MD is the Interim chair of Psychiatry, and a professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at The GWU School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC.  Dr. Griffith received his M.D. in 1976, followed by Neurology Residency and an MS in Neurophysiology at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1979.  He completed psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1983.

Dr. Griffith currently serves as director of the Psychiatry Residency Program. As residency program director, has developed a model of psychiatric residency training that balances biological and psychosocial therapies in the treatment of patients within their family, community, and cultural contexts. He provides psychiatric treatment for immigrants, refugees, and survivors of political torture at Northern Virginia Family Services. In his clinical practice at The GW Medical Faculty Associates, he treats psychosomatic disorders, psychiatric complications of medical illnesses, and other problems of couples and families.  He has been named a Washingtonian magazine Top Doctor.