Background
Philip Manley Boyce was born on 20 September 1949 in Johannesburg, South Africa to Madeline Millicent Manley and Hugh Boyce.
Philip Manley Boyce was born on 20 September 1949 in Johannesburg, South Africa to Madeline Millicent Manley and Hugh Boyce.
Boyce studied at Guy"s Hospital Medical School from 1968 to 1973.
He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney in NSW Australia. He has two older brothers Michael and Graham. He earned a Diploma of Psychotherapy from the University of Adelaide in 1980 and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of New South Wales in 1990.
Boyce worked at the Parramatta Psychiatric Centre in Richmond from 1977 to 1978.
He then moved to Adelaide where he worked at Hillcrest Hospital as a Consultant Psychiatrist and in 1980 became the Director of Affective Disorders Unit as well as a Clinical Lecturer. In 1984 he moved to Sydney to take up a position at the University of New South Wales as a lecturer in Psychiatry as well as a consultant at the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals.
In 1989 Boyce became a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales and a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Prince Henry Hospital. After becoming the Sub-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney Nepean Hospital, Boyce also became the Acting Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine.
Boyce is on eight committees and boards, including the Bipolar Advisory Board and Chair, Standing Committee for the Training of Psychiatrists, NSW Institute of Psychiatry.
He was the president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists in 2004.