Dr. James L Curtis was born in Jeffersonville, GA in 1922 and grew up in Albion, MI. After graduating from Albion College in 1944, he attended the University of Michigan Medical School, graduating in 1946. He served as Director of Harlem Hospital's Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until his retirement in the year 2000.
