Michelle Bach

Michelle graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Biology from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. After graduating, she became a live-in volunteer at the Open Door Community, where she had volunteered throughout college. There she worked with people experiencing homelessness and severe mental illness and coordinated with Emory School of Medicine to run free clinics for the individuals in the Community. She then began the MD/PhD program at Saint Louis University where she received her PhD in Health Care Ethics with a minor in Women and Gender Studies. Her doctoral dissertation focused on the development of personality disorders as a diagnostic category in psychiatry and she published seven peer-reviewed publications. She is also an accomplished educator, teaching multiple bioethics courses and even developed a course entitled Hysteria: Feminist Perspectives on the History of Psychiatry. Michelle’s academic success in both graduate and medical school was recognized with multiple awards, fellowships and she was named a member of AOA.