Background
Copeland, John Richard Malcolm was born on October 14, 1932 in Stoke on Trent, England. Son of Lorenzo and Kathleen Mary (Hopkinson) Copeland.
psychiatry educator gerontology educator
Copeland, John Richard Malcolm was born on October 14, 1932 in Stoke on Trent, England. Son of Lorenzo and Kathleen Mary (Hopkinson) Copeland.
Bachelor, Cambridge (United Kingdom) University, 1953. Bachelor of Medicine BCh, Cambridge (United Kingdom) University, 1956. Master of Arts, Cambridge (United Kingdom) University, 1975.
Doctor of Medicine, Cambridge (United Kingdom) University, 1975. Doctor in Psychiatric Medicine, Institute Psychiatry, London, 1966.
House officer St. Stephen's Hospital, London, 1956-1959. Medical registrar Dreadnought Hospital, 1959-1961. Resident medical officer West End Hospital, 1962-1964.
Registrar in psychiatry Maudsley Hospital, 1964-1966. Lecturer in psychiatry Institute of Psychiatry, 1966-1971, senior lecturer in psychiatry, 1971-1975, director United States/United Kingdom diagnostic project, 1970-1977. Professor, head psychiatry Liverpool (England) University, 1976-1997, director Institute Human Ageing, 1981-1997, emeritus professor, since 1997.
Chairman International Center Population Studies and Care in Ageing and Microbiology and Botany, since 2001.
Fellow: Royal College Psychiatry, Royal College Physicians London, Royal Society Medicine (member section council 1992). Member: World Federation for Mental Health, Academy Old Age Psychiatry Association United Kingdom (chairman since 1999), World Psychiatric Association (honorary treasurer), British Society Gerontology.
Married Mary Bridget O'Dwyer, April 29, 1963. Children: Caroline Mary Teresa, Veronica Ann Louise, Andrew Thomas John.