Neil B. Edwards

Background

Edwards, Neil B. was born on November 8, 1939 in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, United States.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1961; Doctor of Medicine, Temple University, 1965.

Career

Chief resident, Temple University Health Sciences Center, Philadelphia, 1970-1971; assistant professor psychiatry, Temple University Health Sciences Center, Philadelphia, 1971-1973; assistant professor psychiatry, Hospital University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973-1977; associate professor psychiatry and director clinical services, University Texas Medical School, Houston, 1977-1979; associate professor psychiatry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1979-1984; professor psychiatry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1984; acting chairman psychiatry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, 1983-1985; department chairman psychiatry, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1985; Chief Executive Officer, executive medical director U. Behavioral Health Center, U. Tennessee, Memphis, since 1996. Consultant Tennessee Department Mental Health/Mental Retardation to Select a Commr.of Mental Health, 1986. Member master plan advising committee Tennessee Psychiatric Association/Tennessee department Mental Health/Mental Retardation, Nashville, 1992.

Consultant American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Treatment of Psychiatric Disease, 1986. Examiner American Board Psychiatry and Neurology, 1983-1984, chief proctor written examination, since 1983, senior examiner, since 1984. Specialist sitevisitor psychiatry residency review committee Accreditation Council for grad.Med.

Education, since 1990.

Achievements

• Neil B. Edwards has been listed as a noteworthy Psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member mental health task force Memphis Coalition for the Homeless, 1987, president, 1987-1989. Member board directors, president Lowenstein House, Memphis, 1988-1990. Member City of Memphsi Mayor's Task Force for development of Police Crisis Intervention Team, 1988-1989.

Advisory board alliance for Mentally Ill, since 1988, Green Spring of tennessee, Chattanooga, 1994-1997. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (Certified Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education 1992, Society Behavior Therapy and Research (charter clinical fellow), College Physicians of Philadelphia (associate fellow). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, Memphis and Shelby County Medical Society, Academy Psychosomatic Medicine, Memphis Neurosci.

Society, Southern Association for Research in Psychiatry (secretary-treasurer 1990-1991, president 1992-1993), American Geriatric Society, American Academy Psychiatry in Alcoholism and Addictions, Society Biological Psychiatry, Memphis Medical Seminar, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Alpha Epsilon Delta (life, chapter vice president 1961).

Interests

• Avocations: skiing, racquetball, golf, music.