Stephen Bates Billick, MD: A Journey from the Heartland to the Big City.

A biography of Doctor Stephen B. Billick, the 36th president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, is presented. It notes that his father named William Billick was a lawyer and Esther Billik, his mother, loved oil painting and writing poetry. He took psychiatry residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is a clinical psychiatry professor at both New York Medical College and the New York University School of Medicine.