Background
Roy, Chunilal was born on January 1, 1935 in Digboi, India. Son of Atikay Bandhu and Nirupama (Devi) Roy. came to Canada, 1967, naturalized, 1975.
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Chunilal Roy
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Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Science, Calcutta Medical College, India, 1959; diploma in psychological medicine, Kings College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, 1963.
Career
Intern, Middlesborough General Hospital, England, 1960-1961;
junior hospital officer, St. Luke's Hospital, Middlesborough, England, 1961-1964;
senior registrar, St. Luke's Hospital, Middlesborough, England, 1964;
senior hospital medical officer, Parkside Hospital, Macclesfield, England, 1964-1966;
senior registrar, Moorehaven Hospital, Ivybridge, England, 1966;
reader, head department psychiatry, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, 1966;
senior medical officer, Republic of Ireland, County Louth, 1966;
senior psychiatrist, Saskatchewan Department Psychiatric Services, Canada, 1967-1968;
regional director, Swift Current, Canada, 1968-1971;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1971-1972;
founding director, medical director, Regional Psychiatric Center, Abbotsford, B.C., Canada, 1972-1982. With department psychiatry Vancouver General Hospital, since 1983. Consultant to prison administrators.
Honorary lecturer psychology and clinical professor department psychiatry U. B.C. Ex-officio member National Advisory Committee on Health Care of Prisoners in Canada. Consultant psychiatrist Vancouver Hospital.
Advisor Asian chapter Psychosomatic Medicine, World Congress of Law and Medicine, New Delhi, 1985. Appointed honorary consul for Burkira Faso, 1997. Appointed auditor Medical Superior vena cava syndrome Committee B.C., 1997.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Royal College Psychiatry (Canada), Royal College Psychiatry (England), Pacific Rim College Psychiatrists (founder). Member World Psychiatric Association(secretary, vice chairman forensic psychiatry 1983), World Federation Mental Health, International Council Prison Medical Superior vena cava syndrome (founding secretary-general 1977), Can.Med. Association, Canada Psychiatric Association, International Academy Legal Medicine andSocial Medicine, Indian Psychiatric Association (life), Association Physicians andSurgeons Who Work in Canada Prisons (founding president 1974), International Foundation for Training in Penitentiary Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry (founding president 1980), World Psychiatry Association, Australian Academy Forensic Science (correspondent), Canada Physicians Interested in South Asia (vice president 1989, president 1990), International College Psychosomatic Medicine (advisory Asian chapter), International Conference on Health, Culture and Contemporary Society (chief advisor Bombay 1989), World Psyciat.
Association (vice chairman forensic psychiatric section 1989), World Association Health, Culture and Environmental (secretary-general 1995, award 1995), Order of St. John (knight 1992), Vancouver MultiCultural Society (board directors 1992-1993), B.C. Psychiatric Association (president 1995-1996).
Connections
Married Elizabeth Ainscow, April 15, 1967. Children: Nicholas, Phillip, Charles.
