Background
Pyles, Robert Lindsay was born on March 22, 1936 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Kelso and Elizabeth (Waggoner) Pyles.
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Robert Lindsay Pyles
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Bachelor with honors, University of Virginia, l958; Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, l962.
Career
Chief resident in psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, l965-66;
private practice, Wellesley Hills., Massachusetts
instructor psychiatry, Harvard University, Boston, l969-. Associate in psychiatry Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, l973-. Member of faculty Psychoanlytic Institute New England, Cambridge, Massachusetts, l975-, chairman faculty, l978-79, board directors l977-, training analyst, l988-.
Supervisor Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, l987-, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, l988-. Consultant Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, l969-, Sports Medicine Resource, Brookline, Massachusetts, l983-. Medical director Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling, Boston, l985-.
Board directors Foundation for Study Compulsive Gambling, Washington, l982-.
Achievements
Membership
Member steering committee Massachusetts Gambling Authority, l988-. Member Commision on Non-Medical Clinical Training, New York City, l987-. Chairman Advisory Committee on Problem Gambling, Cambridge, l988-.
Board directors International Foundation on Problem Gambling, Boston, l989-. Lt commander Medical Corps, United States Navy, l963-66. Member American Psychiatric Association, International Psychoanalytic Association, American Psychoanalytic Association (president-elect 1996), Massachusetts Medical Society, Greater Boston Track Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma.
Connections
Married Barbara Therese Cannon. Children: Marybeth, Christopher, Kimberley, Robert, Michael.
