Education:
B.S. Pre-Medicine: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
M.D.: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
Residency, OB-GYN: North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Residency, Psychiatry: North Carolina Memorial Hospital
Fellowship: Child Psychiatry UNC Hospitals (formerly North Carolina Memorial Hospital)

Summary Statement:
Dr. Robert Bashford’s duties at UNC include teaching medical students (50 hours classroom contact with MSII) residents, and fellows. His house staff contact is through clinics, consults, and inpatient work. He has a busy private clinical practice. Also, Dr. Bashford is involved in teaching OB-GYN residents. He has an appointment in the Department of OB-GYN as well as Psychiatry.

Representative Publications:
1. Bashford, R.A., “Psychological Aspects of Infertility”, CNS Spectrum, 1998.

2. Steege, John & Bashford, R.A., Chapter “Psychiatric Illness and Pain”, Pelvic Pain, 1997.

3. Kuller JA, Katz VL, McMahon MJ, Wells SR, Bashford RA: Pharmacologic treatment of psychiatric disease in pregnancy and lactation: fetal and neonatal effects. Obstetrics and Gynecology 87:789-794, 1996.

4. Meyer, William; Bashford, Robert “Psychological Affects of Anonymous Egg Donation”, Fertility and Sterility, 2000.