Professor, Retired

Humanities in Medicine

Psychiatry

Family and Community Medicine

Richard A. DeVaul, M.D., is a senior consultant with Ryan-McGinn. Dr. DeVaul, a professor of psychiatry and family medicine, has many years of clinical and academic practice as a medical psychiatrist. Creator of the Leadership in Medicine Program at the College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dr. DeVaul helps to shape the young medical minds in thinking about the entire patient, and not simply treating their current medical problems.

Education

Dr. DeVaul received his B.S. Degree from Iowa State University in 1964. An honor's student, he graduated with the highest grade point average in his major. He received his M.D. Degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York and then completed a straight internal medicine internship at the University of Iowa. After three years as a Navy Flight Surgeon for the Presidential Helicopter Squadron, MCAS Quantico, Virginia, he completed his specialty training in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Hospital where he was chosen to serve as Chief Resident.

After completing his training, Doctor DeVaul joined the academic faculty at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1974, where he served as the Director of the Medical Psychiatric Consultation Service. He also served as co-director of a chronic pain research unit and as an assistant dean and then the Associate Dean for Student and Curricular Affairs.

In 1983 he left Texas to become the Dean of the School of Medicine at the University in West Virginia for five years. DeVaul then returned to Texas in 1988 as Vice President for Health Affairs and the Dean of the College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center. These deanships provided challenging experiences in administration, fund raising, public relations and advocacy politics. From 1995-1997 Dr. DeVaul did a sabbatical working on national health policy issues at the Association of Academic Health Centers in Washington D.C. He then returned to Texas to the College of Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. DeVaul is a tenured professor of the Departments of Humanities in Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the College of Medicine. He practices medicine at the Brazos Family Medicine Residency.

Dr. DeVaul is the author of many peer reviewed journal articles, a book on the chronic pain patient, and a variety of invited articles and book chapters about medical psychiatry, chronic pain, and bereavement. He has consulted on a variety of national projects concerning health care and health care litigation.