Background
Merskey, Harold was born on February 11, 1929 in Sunderland, England. Son of Harry andSophie (Lieberman) M.
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Harold Merskey
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Bachelor, University of Oxford, England, 1950, Master of Arts. Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, 1953, Doctor of Medicine, 1965. House physician and surgeon Midland Nerve Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, England, 1953-1954.
Registrar and assistant psychiatrist Cherry Knowle Hospital, Sunderland, 1956-1961.
Lecturer Sheffield (England) University, 1961-1964. Consultant psychiatrist SaxondaleHosp., England, 1964-1967.
Consultant physician National Hospitals Nervous Diseases, London, 1967-1976. Director education and research London Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada, 1976-1994.
Professor psychiatry U. Western Ontario, London, 1977.
Chairman science advising committee Gerontology Research Council Ontario, 1983-1987.
Career
Physician National; director education and research London Psychiatric Editor: (with others) Pain: Meaning and Management, 1980, The Classification of Chronic Pain,1986, (co-editor) 2nd edition
Achievements
Membership
Member editorial board Pain, 1974-1995, Cephalalgia, 1981. Fellow Royal College Physicians London, Royal College Physicians Canada, Royal College Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association. Member Canada Psychiatric Association, Royal Society Medicine, British Medical Association, Canada Medical Association, International Association for Study of Pain (honorary, Chairman of Commission on taxonomy).
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Married Susan Jennifer Crann, February 21, 1965. Children: Helen Sarah, Ruth Elizabeth, Alan Bernard.
