Christian Doctor’s Digest – October 2019

Barney M. Davis, Jr., MD, is a general psychiatrist in Phoenix, Arizona whose work providing counseling and consultative services to members of the international missionary community takes him to many remote areas. A graduate of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Barney also completed postgraduate psychiatry residency at UTMB, and his areas of clinical interest have included geriatric, consultation-liaison and neuropsychiatric disorders. Following several years of service with the U.S. Navy, he worked in private practice in Galveston and Bryan, Texas before relocating to the Eastern Shore of Maryland. His regular pursuits of general aviation, Dixieland jazz and offshore sailing were initially interrupted by his salvation 33 years ago. Subsequent short-term medical mission trips led him to awareness of the need for “member care,” addressing the emotional health needs of missionaries serving far from home. Through the organization of Godspeed Resources Connection, he has continued to provide both on-field and virtual (telepsychiatry) care to missionaries in multiple locations. Barney serves as an officer within the CMDA Psychiatry Section. Barney’s wife, psychiatric nurse and co-therapist Karen Grace Davis succumbed to early onset Pick’s Disease in 2015.