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McCurdy, Layton was born on August 20, 1935 in Florence, South Carolina.
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Layton McCurdy
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Layton McCurdy, American Medical educator. Dimplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology (board directors 1983-1991, pres.1990); licensed psychiatrist, South Carolina., North Carolina, Maryland., Georgia, Pennsylvania. Recipient Distinguished Alumnus award Medical University of Southern California, 1988, George C. Ham. Society, 1990; research fellow National Institute of Mental Health, 1974-1975.
Education
Bachelor of Science, U. North Carolina, 1956; Doctor of Medicine, Medical University of Southern California, 1960.
Career
Resident in psychiatry, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, 1961-1964;
with psychiatry training branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1964-1966;
assistant professor department psychiatry School Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, 1966-1968;
professor, department chairman psychiatry and behavioral science, Medical University of Southern California, 1968-1982;
vice president medical affairs, dean, Medical University of Southern California, since 1990;
professor psychiatry School Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1982-1990;
psychiatrist-in-chief, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, 1982-1990. Visiting colleague Institute Psychiatry, U. London, 1974-1975. National advisory mentalhealth county National Institute of Mental Health, 1980-1983.
Appointed Pennsylvania Advisory Committee for Mental Health and Mental Retardation, 1984-1987. Chairman consensus panel on panic disorder National Institutes of Health, 1991.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American College Psychiatrists (board regents 1987-1990, vice president 1990-1993, president 1993-1994, Bowis award 1997), American Psychiatric Association (joint commission public affairs 1981-1984, Chairman of Commission on diagnosis and assessment 1988-1994), Southern Psychiatric Association (board regents 1977-1980, Chairman of the Board regents 1979-1980), Royal College Psychiatrists (United Kingdom). Member American Medical Association, Association for Academy Psychiatry (president 1970-1972), South Carolina. Medical Association, Charleston County Medical Society (Executive Committee), Waring Library.
Society (president 1979-1980), Cosmos Club (Washington)., Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
M. Gwendolyn A. McCurdy, 1958. Children: Robert Junior, David Barclay.
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Nationality
American
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Recipient Distinguished Alumnus award Medical University of Southern California, 1988, George C. Ham. Society, 1990; research fellow National Institute of Mental Health, 1974-1975.Recipient Distinguished Alumnus award Medical University of Southern California, 1988, George C. Ham. Society, 1990; research fellow National Institute of Mental Health, 1974-1975.