David Allen Hamburg (October 1, 1925 – April 21, 2019) was an American psychiatrist. He served as president of the

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from 1982 to 1997. He also served as the President of the Institute of Medicine,

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and president of the

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. He had also been a member of the

since 1998. He was also a member of the

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and the

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. He had previously been chair of the department of psychiatry at

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. His wife,

Beatrix Hamburg Beatrix A. Hamburg (October 19, 1923 – April 15, 2018) was an American psychiatrist whose long career in academic medicine advanced the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. Hamburg was the first African-American to attend Vassar College, an ...

, followed a similarly successful career path. Their daughter,

Margaret Hamburg Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg (born July 12, 1955, Chicago, Illinois) is an American physician and public health administrator, who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair ...

, is a physician who has followed their footsteps into public service becoming Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in 2009. His son, Eric Hamburg, is an author, attorney and film producer in Los Angeles. Hamburg was born in

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. He was awarded the Public Welfare Medal of the

in 1998, its most prestigious award, and the

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in 1996. In 2007 he and his wife received the Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Award in Mental Health from the Institute of Medicine for their long careers in medicine and public service. He died in Washington, D.C. on April 21, 2019 from

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at the age of 93.

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