Alan Angus McLean

Background

Alan McLean was born on August 18, 1925 in Fenchow, China.

Education

McLean was educated at Downstate Medical College, as well as at the State University of New York, obtaining his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1948.

Career

McLean's career started at Seattle General Hospital, where he took a position of intern from 1948 till 1949.

Next year he was appointed to the Western State Hospital to serve as a general psychiatry resident for a year. In 1951 he took the same position at the Oregon State Hospital. A year later McLean accepted a position of a psychiatry fellow at Cornell University Medical Center, where he became an instructor in 1954. He took that position for almost 10 years. Simultaneously he became a psychiatrist to Outpatient Department at New York Hospital, he held that position till 1985.

His association with I.B.M. started in 1957 and it continued for 10 years. He served at I.B.M. as a regional medical director.

He served at New York University as a clinical assistant professor from 1963 to 1966. Also during that same period he worked as an assistant attending psychiatrist at the University Hospital.

For many years, Dr. McLean was associated with Cornell University Medical College, where he worked as a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry for 2 years from 1966. During that same period, he was an assistant attending psychiatrist at New York Hospital.

Also he began to serve as a head of Center for Occupational Mental Health in 1967 and took the position of clinical associate professor there in 1968. He taught and directed the Center for Occupational Psychiatry until 1985.

In 1985 he set up his own consulting firm in psychiatry and occupational medicine, but he continued consulting for International Business Machines.

Achievements

• McLean got Health Achievement in Industry from American Occupational Medical Association in 1975.
  
  He contributed 75 articles to journals and textbooks and was the author or co-author of nine books.

Works

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• book

  • Work Stress (Addison-Wesley series on occupational stress) 1979
  • High Tech Survival Kit: Managing Your Stress (Series: Wiley Series in Training & Development) 1986

Membership

McLean was a member of Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and American Occupational Medical Association.

• He was a president.

  American Academy of Occupational Medicine , United States

  1978 - 1979

Connections

McLean married Jan Briol McLean. They had 6 children.

Wife:

Jan Briol McLean