Dr. McLeod-Bryant was born in 1958 and raised in Binghamton, NY. He attended the University of Rochester, where he received a BA, magna cum laude in Cybernetics, then received his M.D. there in 1984. He completed his residency in psychiatry at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, MA. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), for twenty years since then. He is an Associate Professor, Interim Director of the Behavioral Health North Area Clinic, and provides psychiatric services to the Institute of Psychiatry’s Employee Assistance Program. Past administrative appointments include a two-year stint as Medical Director for the South Carolina Department of Mental Health, past Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and past Medical Director of Charleston Memorial Hospital. He has also been President of the South Carolina Psychiatric Association. His academic interests include transcultural and public psychiatry. He frequently lectures on conflict resolution, working better with others and the impact of culture on mental health and illness. In the Charleston community he has been active with the Ebony City Soccer Club, serving as Vice-President and Coach for its youth soccer teams, and he is a Board Member of the Coastal Community Foundation, where he now serves as President-elect of the Board. He has been married for 25 years to Aleta and has three children aged fourteen to twenty-two, Aaron, Andrew and Sydney, all products of public schools. | 
