Education
B. Hinsdale, Illinois, March 20, 1943;son Burr Simmons and Evelyn Cora (Budde) East. Children by previous marriage: Kathryn Elise, Andrew Burr.
1 child, Ian David. Bachelor of Science with honors, University of Chicago, 1964, Doctor of Medicine 1968, Doctor of Philosophy inBiopsychology, 1970.
Diplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology. Pediatric intern University of California-San Francisco, 1969-1970.
Resident, then fellowin psychiatry Stanford University, California, 1972-1975, Kennedy fellow in medicine, law and ethics, 1975-1976. Assistant professor psychiatry University of Wisconsin -Madison, 1976-1979, associate professor, 1979-1984, professor, 1984-1988, clinical professor psychiatry, 1997.
Chief psychiatry service, director laboratory behavioral neurochemistry William South. Middleton Memorial Veterans Administration Hospital., Madison, 1976-1987.
Consultant Mendota Mental Health Institute, Madison, 1984-1987. Clinical director Dorothea Dix Hospital, Raleigh, 1987-1990. Professor psychiatry U. North Carolina, 1988-1990.
Professor, Chairman.dept. psychiatry Temple University School Medicine, 1990-1997.
Associate medical director Prest and Associations, Madison, 1997-1998. National medical director northern region National Research Council Health, Incorporated., 1998.
Company-editor: Terrorism and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 1983, Patient Violence and the Clinician, 1995. Contributor Chapters.to books, articles to professional journals Elder, Presbyterian Church.