Efrain Bleiberg, MD, was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He is a graduate of the School of Medicine of the University of Nuevo Leon, the School of Psychology of the University of Monterrey, the Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry residency programs of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, and the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis (adult and child psychoanalysis). He has served as Unit Director, Director of the Child Psychiatry Training Program, Director of the General Psychiatry Residency Program, Dean of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Vice-President for Education and Research, Vice President and Director of the Children's Division, and Chief of Staff and President of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. He is currently Senior Executive Vice President of Menninger, the Alice Friedman Professor of Psychiatry and Developmental Psychopathology at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences and Training, and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.