Background
DeVries, Marten Willem was born on February 14, 1948 in Amsterdam, Limburg, The Netherlands. Came to the United States, 1956, returned to The Netherlands, 1983.
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Marten Willem DeVries
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Bachelor, Harvard University, 1970; Doctor of Medicine, U. Rochester, New York, 1975; postgraduate in psychiatry, U. Rochester, New York, 1979.
Career
Research associate, child development unit, U. Nairobi (Kenya), 1974-1975;
intern, then resident, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, 1975-1979;
assistant professor anthropology, U. Rochester, 1976-1978;
visiting scientist, Z.I.F. Center Interdisciplinary Studies, Bielefeld, Federal Republic of Germany, 1977-1978;
psychiatry instructor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1979-1982;
associate in education human development laboratory, Harvard Graduate School Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979-1981;
lecturer, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1982-1987;
professor social psychiatry, U. Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands, since 1983. Scientific and general director International Institute for Psycho-Social and Ecological Research, Maastricht, since 1985. Consultant World Health Organization World Bank Project Hope, Kenya, Swaziland, since 1981.
Dutch representative European Medical Council, Brussels, since 1985. Expert consultant National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, since 1987. Research advisor World Federation Mental Health, 1989.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Psychiatric Association, Society for Study of Psychology-Culture, Assn.Med. Anthropology, World Psychiatric Association (member Epid. and transcultural sections), Dutch Psychiatric Association, Workgroup in Social Psychiatry (secretary since 1987).
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Son of Hendrik and Teuny Antonia (van de Klashorst) deV. Married M. Rachel Rappise, December 27, 1969 (divorced June 1978). Married Nancy A. Nicolson, April 2, 1982.
Children: Willem A. and Christopher H.J.
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American
Awards
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Recipient Benjamin Rush Psychiatry prize U. Rochester, 1975. Harvard scholar, 1966-1970. MacArthur Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, New World Order grantee, since 1981. Recipient Saugstad Foundation award, 1988.Recipient Benjamin Rush Psychiatry prize U. Rochester, 1975. Harvard scholar, 1966-1970. MacArthur Foundation, National Institute of Mental Health, New World Order grantee, since 1981.
Recipient Saugstad Foundation award, 1988.