George Megahy Simpson

Background

Simpson, George Megahy was born on September 28, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, Glasgow U., 1948; Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in Medicine, Liverpool (England) University, 1955; Degree in Medicine (honorary), University Goteborg, Sweden, 1994.

Career

Intern, Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, England, 1955-1956; assistant resident, Department Psychiary, Allen Memorial Institute, Royal Victoria Hospital, 1956-1957; resident in psychiatry, Rockland Eastern State Hospital Research Center, Orangeburg, New York, 1957-1959; associate director, Rockland County Mental Health Association, Monsey, New York, 1958-1962; assistant in psychiatry, Columbia University, New York City, 1959-1977; senior psychiatrist research center, Rockland Eastern State Hospital, Orangeburg, 1959-1961; supervising psychiatrist research center, Rockland Eastern State Hospital, Orangeburg, 1961-1968; Association director, Bergen Pines County Hospital, Paramus, New Jersey, 1968-1975; principal research psychiatrist, Rockland Psychiatric Center, Orangeburg, New York, 1968-1977; unit chief, Rockland Psychiatric Center, 1971-1975; associate clinical professor, New York Medical College, New York City, 1974-1977; research consultant, Bergen Pines County Hospital, Paramus, 1975-1977; director, University of Southern California/Metro Psychopharm Superior vena cava syndrome, Norwalk, California, 1977-1980; professor psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1977-1983; director adult psychiatric center, Department Mental Health, Los Angeles, 1980-1983; professor psychiatry and pharmacology, director clinical psychopharmacology, Medical College Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1983-1994; professor research psychiatry, department psychiatry/behavioral science, University of Southern California School Medicine, Los Angeles, since 1994; interim department chairman psychiatry, LAC, University of Southern California Medical Center, since 1997. Member commission on A.E. Bennet Awards, Society Biological Psychiatry, since 1989. Visiting professor Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas, 1968.

Member of New York State Department of Mental Hygiene Committee on Therapeutics, 1976-1978, APA Task Force on Tardive Dyskinesia, 1977-1978, chairman task force on sudden death in psychiatry, 1982-1988. Member committee for protection of human subjects consultant, Department of Health, Education and Welfare andFDA on areas related to psychotropic agents and side effects State ofCalif., 1978-1981. Chairman search committee for director psychiatry and law University of Southern California, 1982-1983.

Chairman young investigators travel award committees 5th World Congress Biological Psychiatry, since 1989. Member of advisory board Schizophrenia Diagnostic & Cons. Center Medical College Pennsylvania/EPPI, chairman mental health and Neuroscience planning committee, 1990.

Active numerous other career related positions.

Achievements

• George Megahy Simpson has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Mayor's Task Force on Homeless Mentally Ill, Philadelphia, 1986-1988. Member of advisory board Schizophrenia Diagnostic & Consultation Center, Minecraft Coder Pack/EPPI,1989-1991, chairman mental health and Neuroscience planning committee, 1990. Member Biological Psychiatry (advisory editor), British Medical Association, American College Clinical Pharmacology, Pennsylvania Medical Society, National Alliance for Mentally Ill, American College Neuropsychopharmacology (chairman nominating committee 1986, task force to revise guidelines for clinical trials of psychotropic drugs 1990-1991, mental health leadership forum liaison 1990-1991, honorifics committee 1990-1991, president 1991).

Connections

M. Inger M. Lilja.