Background
Heath, Robert Galbraith was born on May 9, 1915 in Pittsburgh. Son of Robert Malcolm and Minnie Coleman (Galbraith) Heath.
educator neurologist psychiatrist
Heath, Robert Galbraith was born on May 9, 1915 in Pittsburgh. Son of Robert Malcolm and Minnie Coleman (Galbraith) Heath.
Bachelor of Science, University Pittsburgh, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, University Pittsburgh, 1938. D.M.Sc., Columbia University, 1949.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Tulane University, 1985.
Intern, Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, 1939;
instructor medicine, U. Pittsburgh, 1939-1940;
assistant, chief resident neurology, Neurological Institute, New York, 1940-1942;
assistant attending neurologist, Neurological Institute, 1946-1949;
psychiatrist, Pennsylvania Hospital Nervous and Mental Diseases
also demonstrator neurology, Jefferson Medical College, 1942-1943;
instructor neurology, Columbia, 1946-1949;
attending psychoanalyst, Columbia (Psychoanalytic Clinic), 1951-1956;
professor, Tulane University, 1949-1985;
emeritus professor psychiatry and neurology, Tulane University, since 1985;
department chairman psychiatry and neurology, Tulane University, 1949-1980. Senior visiting physician Charity Hospital. Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., New Orleans, Southeast Louisiana Eastern State Hospital, East Louisiana Eastern State Hospital.
Medical staff DePaul Hospital. Chief medical officer Merchant Marine Rest Center, United States Marine Hospital. Chief psychiatrist United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1943-1946.
President Institute Mental Hygiene of New Orleans, medical directors, since 1965. Medical adviser to Louisiana director Selective Service System. United States Public Health Service (committees psychosurgery and training grants).
Committee medical education American Psychiatric Association. United States representative International Symposium on Biological and Clinical Aspects Central Nervous Systems, Basle, Switzerland. Member science advisory board American Council on Marijuana, since 1980.
Fellow American College Neuropsychopharmacology (charter), American Academy Neurology, New York Academy of Medicine, American College of Physicians. Member American Neurological Association, American Association Psychonalytic Medicine, American Medical Association, Society Research Psychosomatic Problems, Society Biological Psychiatry (vice president 1967-1968, president 1968-1969, Gold Medal award for pioneer research in field 1972, Distinguished Service award 1983), Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Psychonanalysis (trustee, Frieda Fromm-Reichman award 1974), Louisiana Psychiatric Association (president 1960-1961, award 1977), Sigma Xi.
Married Eleanor Bugher Wright, September 7, 1940. Children: Anne, Shari, Barbara, Carol, Robert Galbraith.