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FRCPsych
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health problems. The college provides advice to those responsible for training and certifying psychiatrists in the UK. In addition to publishing many books and producing several journals, the college produces, for the public, information about mental health problems. Its offices are located at 21 Prescot Street in London, near Aldgate. The college's previous address (until 2013) was Belgrave Square. History The college has existed in various forms since 1841, having started as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane. Bewley (2008), p. 10. In 1865 it became the Medico-Psychological Association. Bewley (2008), p. 2. In 1926, the association received its royal charter, becoming the Royal Medico-Psychological As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Bailey
Dame Susan Mary Bailey (born 29 August 1950) is a British psychiatrist and academic who specialises in children's mental health. Since 2004, she has been Professor of Child Mental Health at the University of Central Lancashire. From 2011 to 2014, she was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Since January 2015, she has been Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Early life Bailey was born on 29 August 1950 in Manchester, England. She was educated at Hulme Grammar School for Girls, then a direct grant grammar school in Oldham, and at Watford Grammar School for Girls, then a grammar school in Watford. She studied medicine at the University of Manchester and graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) degrees in 1973. Medical career Bailey became a Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) in 1976 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) in 1996. Since 1983, she has been a consultant c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Evan Kendell
Robert Evan Kendell (28 March 1935 − 19 December 2002) was a British psychiatrist. He was Chief Medical Officer of Scotland from 1991 to 1996 and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1996 to 1999. Background He was born on 28 March 1935 in Yorkshire, the son of teachers and spent some of his childhood in Wales. He was educated at the Mill Hill School in London then won a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Double First in the Natural Sciences Tripos. After further study at the King's College Hospital Medical School and a brief stint in internal medicine he joined the Maudsley Hospital and trained under Sir Aubrey Lewis. Kendell was later awarded the Gaskell Medal. Aged 38 he was appointed to the chair of psychiatry in Edinburgh. In 1986 he was made the Dean of the Medical School and during his four years in this post he supervised a period of expansion. In 1991 he was appointed the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland. In 1997 he was ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Leatham Tennant Birley
James Leatham Tennant Birley (1928–2013) of the Maudsley Hospital, London, was a psychiatrist and president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1987 to 1990. After education at Winchester College, Birley studied medicine at University College, Oxford and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1952 BM BCh and then from 1952 to 1954 held junior appointments. From 1954 to 1956 he was a junior specialist in the RAMC. In 1957 he was a demonstrator in pathology at St Thomas's Hospital, where he worked under William Sargant. Birley was from 1958 to 1959 a medical registrar at North Middlesex Hospital and from 1959 to 1960 a psychiatry/neurology registrar at St Thomas's Hospital. At the Maudsley Hospital he joined the staff in 1960, and became a consultant in 1968, and retired in 1990. He qualified MRCP in 1958, graduated Doctor of Psychiatric Medicine in 1962, and qualified MRCPsych in 1971. In 1976 he was elected FRCP and FRCPsych. In 1968 Birley and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 14.9 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of Government of the United Kingdom, the national government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. London grew rapidly 19th-century London, in the 19th century, becoming the world's List of largest cities throughout history, largest city at the time. Since the 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Roth (psychiatrist)
, Sir Martin Roth (6 November 1917 – 26 September 2006) was a British psychiatrist, academic, and researcher. He was a leading figure in British psychiatry, especially in the study of mental illness and mental disorders of the elderly. He was the co-author of ''Clinical Psychiatry,'' an influential textbook that was used in England from 1954 through the 1980s. Early life Roth was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, on 6 November 1917. He was the son of a synagogue cantor. His family moved to the East End of London, England when he was five years old. He attended the Davenant Foundation School in Loughton, Essex. Roth trained in medicine at St. Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, qualifying to practice medicine in 1941. He then trained in neurology under Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain at Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Next, he went to Maudsley Hospital where he trained in psychiatry. Career In 1948, Roth worked with Willy Mayer-Gross at Crichton Royal Hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinesh Bhugra
Dinesh Bhugra is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Bhugra was the president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) between 2014 and 2017 and the President of the British Medical Association in 2018–2019. Bhugra became chair of the Mental Health Foundation in 2011, and was awarded his CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to psychiatry following three years as the president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists He is a well-known commentator on mental health issues. He has contributed to ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Times'' (UK), the ''Financial Times'', ''The Observer'', ''The Huffington Post'', the ''BBC News Magazine'', ''The Times of India'' and ''The New York Times''. His research interests include topics across social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Hollins
Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins (born 22 June 1946), is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Learning Disability at St George's, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire. Baroness Hollins founded the visual literacy charity Books Beyond Words in 1989 to produce word free books for people with learning disabilities. She is chair and series editor for Beyond Words. Baroness Hollins has published extensively on the topic of learning disabilities. She was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2005 to 2008, succeeded by Dinesh Bhugra. From 2012 to 2013 she was president of the British Medical Association and was on the BMA Board of Science from 2013 to 2016. In 2014 Pope Francis appointed her a member of the newly created Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Shooter
Mike Shooter of Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental healt ... from 2002 to 2005. References British psychiatrists Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British medical doctors {{UK-psychiatrist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cox (psychiatrist)
John Cox of the North Staffs Hospital Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental healt ... from 1999 to 2002. References British psychiatrists Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-psychiatrist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Caldicott
Dame Fiona Caldicott ( Soesan; 12 January 1941 – 15 February 2021) was a British psychiatrist and psychotherapist who also served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford. She was the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care in England until her death. Early life and education Caldicott was born on 12 January 1941 in Troon, daughter of barrister Joseph Maurice Soesan and civil servant Elizabeth Jane (née Ransley). Her paternal grandparents were greengrocers who were unenthusiastic about education; her father left school in his mid-teens, but subsequently completed a chemistry degree at night school and a law degree by correspondence. Caldicott was educated at City of London School for Girls, then studied medicine and physiology at St Hilda's College, Oxford, qualifying BM BCh in 1966. Career Fiona Caldicott was Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, from 1996 to 2010 while also serving as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Personnel and Equal Opportunities, of the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Sims (psychiatrist)
Andrew Sims (1938–2022) was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1990 to 1993. He was Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Leeds. He wrote a textbook on descriptive psychopathology titled "Symptoms in the Mind" now titled "Sims' Symptoms in the Mind" and in its 6th edition written by Femi Oyebode. Early life and education He grew up in Exeter and then went on to read medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He completed his postgraduate training in psychiatry at the University of Manchester, and in Birmingham. In 1974 he earned his MD from the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, wo ... for his thesis on prognosis in neurotic disorders. Personal life He had a wife, Dr Ruth Sims w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bewley
Thomas Henry Bewley (8 July 1926 – 26 June 2022) was a British and Irish psychiatrist who specialised in the treatment of addiction disorders. He was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1984 to 1987. Career Bewley was born in Dublin on 8 July 1926 into a Quaker family with a strong medical tradition. The Bewley family were well established in Dublin and among many other things established the well-known Bewley's cafes. He attended the School of Medicine (Trinity College Dublin), 1944–1950. After graduation he was appointed a Senior House Officer at St Patrick's Hospital, a major psychiatric hospital in Dublin. He then moved to London and spent short periods at various hospitals before taking up a post at the Maudsley Hospital. He then spent a year in Cincinnati and when he returned in 1960 took up a post at Tooting Bec Hospital and gained the position of consultant the following year. Bewley was actively involved in the Royal College of Psychiatrists and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
