Background
Banay, Ralph Steven was born on July 26, 1896 in Hungary. Son of George and Helen (Vadas) Banay.
Banay, Ralph Steven was born on July 26, 1896 in Hungary. Son of George and Helen (Vadas) Banay.
Doctor of Medicine Royal Hungarian University, 1920. Post graduate studies, Vienna, Munich, Amsterdam.
Two daughters, Suzanne Eve and Mary Clare: Came to the United States of America, 1927. Naturalized, 1937. Assistant professor psychiatry and neurology, Royal Hungarian University, 1921-1923. Clinical practice Budapest, 1923-1927.
Senior assistant physician Manhattan Eastern State Hospital, New York, 1927-1929.
Private practice New York City, 1929-1939. Director clinical psychiatry Boston Eastern State Hospital, 1939-1940.
Chief department psychiatry Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, New York, 1940-1943. Lecturer on criminal psychopathology, New York University School of Education, 1942-1943.
Research psychiatrist, Columbia University, 1943-1949.
Director research on social deviations, department neurology, Columbia, 1943-1949. Attending psychiatrist, New York School for Education of Blind, New York, 1942-1947. Medical director, Yale Plan Clinic, Yale, 1944, Greenmont-on-Hudson Sanatorium, Ossining, New York Civic Center Clinic, Brooklyn, from 1954.
Project director Cyclazacine Plus program New York State Narcotic Control Commission, psychiatrist charge Youth Institute, Incorporated, Ossining.
Adjunct Professor forensic psychiatry Manhattan College Chairman Committee on Prisons, American Psychiatric Association, 1942 (chairman of the section on Legal Aspects of Psychiatry, 1951-1952). Member science board of Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, since 1942.
Chairman of Commission on research and education National Private Psychiatric Hospitals. Consultant psychiatrist Armed Forces Induction Center, New York Diplomate American Board Psychiatry and Neurology.
Fellow American Medical Association, American Psychiatric assosiation, New York Academy Sciences Member of New York State and County medical associations, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society Medical History, Society Medical Jurisprudence, Medical Correctional Association, Academy Forensic Sciences (chairman section psychiatry, 1957), American Correctional Association (Vice-President 1957), International Association Correctional Medicine in Tokyo (secretary).
Married Mary C. Allen.