Education
University of Edinburgh. George Watson"s College.
University of Edinburgh. George Watson"s College.
In 1979 he published the first description of bulimia nervosa, and Russell"s sign has been named after him. Russell was schooled at George Watson"s College, Edinburgh, and he qualified as a medical doctor with Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Edinburgh in 1950. From 1971 to 1979 Russell was a professor and consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and from 1979 to 1993 he was a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, where he set up an eating disorder unit, which has been named after him.
From 1993 he has worked at Priory Hospital Hayes Grove, Bromley, Kent.