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Agenda
(1) To approve the Minutes of the previous Winter Business Meeting held at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 6 February 2001
(2) Obituary
(3) Election of Honorary Fellows
Professor David A. Alexander
Throughout his career as a clinical psychologist, Professor Alexander has
always believed in the mutual value of collaborative work between
psychologists and psychiatrists, and between psychologists and other medical
disciplines. He has worked in the University of Aberdeen's Department of
Mental Health since 1971, acquiring a personal Chair in 1994. It is difficult
to overestimate his contribution to undergraduate education in psychiatry, and
through the Aberdeen Postgraduate Training Scheme in Psychiatry he has also
provided excellent clinical and research supervision, and acted as advocate
for many young psychiatrists. In 1998, Professor Alexander spearheaded the
response of psychiatric services to the Piper Alpha Disaster in the North Sea;
since then his clinical and research work has focused to a great extent upon
the care of victims of various kinds of trauma. He became Director of
Scotland's first Centre for Trauma Research, which was opened by terry Waite
in 1999. Professor Alexander has also established himself internationally as a
renowned clinical and academic expert in the field of trauma. He has lectured
in 17 countries and has the almost unique distinction of acting as Visiting
Lecturer to the FBI Academy in the USA. Professor Alexander also visited
Nairobi in 1998, following the bombing of the American Embassy when 253 people
were killed; his expert and humane contribution proved to be immensely
valuable to both victims and professional colleagues.
Professor Sir David Goldberg
Professor Goldberg has had a long and distinguished career in psychiatry,
including being Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Research and
Development at the Maudsley Hospital, London. A Gaskell Gold Medallist, he has
maintained a close relationship with the College over many years. His numerous
College roles include being Secretary of the Research Committee; a member of
the Court of Electors; Chairman of the General Psychiatry Specialist Advisory
Sub-Committee; Regional Adviser for Manchester and, between 2000 and 2001,
Director of the College Research Unit. Professor Goldberg has also been a
member of the DHSS Research Liaison Group, the Neurosciences Board, Medical
Research Council and Wellcome Trust, and the Department of Health's Central
Research and Development Committee (CRDC). He was Chairman of the CRDC's
Mental Illness Steering Group and London Commissioner on Mental Illness
(King's Fund). He was also on the Education Committee of the World Psychiatric
Association (WPA) and has undertaken extensive work for the World Health
Organization (WHO). In 1998, he received the Adolf Meyer Award of the American
Psychiatric Association. In Manchester, he established undergraduate medical
education based on teaching interview techniques and seeing psychiatry as an
integral part of medical practice, set up the research option for all
undergraduates and the first dedicated training scheme for overseas medical
graduates. Professor Goldberg was Founding Director of the Mental Illness
Research Unit, designed and developed the General Health Questionnaire and
initiated seven other commonly used research assessments. As a result of
Professor Goldberg's efforts, the Maudsley Discussion Papers now bring
controversial issues affecting the care of mental disorders to the attention
of politicans, NHS managers and public servants. He has tirelessly campaigned
for more resources for community mental health teams with successive
ministers, and was successful in persuading the Department of Health to
increase the resource allocation to deprived inner-city areas.
Professor Kevin Gournay, CBE
Professor Gournay is an outstanding academic, clinician and teacher and has
made a major contribution to the field of nursing and to multi-professional
mental health developments both nationally and internationally. At the
Institute of Psychiatry, he is currently Professor of Psychiatric Nursing and
Deputy Head of the Health Services Research Department. He holds
qualifications in nursing, psychology, training in behavioural psychotherapy,
and was also awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list 1998 for services to
psychiatric nursing, research and education. In addition, he is an elected
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and an elected Fellow of the Royal
College of Nursing. Within his academic role he has produced outstanding
results to develop one of the most successful nursing research teams in
Britain. Alongside this he has numerous external affiliations and
responsibilities, including acting as an advisor to ministers on a regular
basis and preparing advice to the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiries.
He is a Visiting Professor to the University of Wollongong and a member of the
task force for the training initiative to the Romanian mental health services.
His publications are both prolific and consistent in showing his dedication to
quality and relevance to clinical care. He has produced two single-author
books, three edited books and two monographs and is the author of over 80
conference papers presented around the world, as well as more than 130 papers
in peer-reviewed journals and numerous book chapters.
Professor Assen V. Jablensky
Professor Jablensky originally trained in medicine and psychiatry in his
native Bulgaria and subsequently worked as a registrar at the Maudsley for 2
years during the late 1960s. He then spent 14 years on the staff of the WHO,
where he was successively principal investigator of each of the WHO's three
great international studies — the International Pilot Study of
Schizophrenia, Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders and the
Collaborative Study on Depressive Disorders in Different Cultures. It was also
he who laid the foundations of the ICD-10 Classification of Mental and
Behavioural Disorders. Partly for these reasons, he is now one of the
best known and highly respected psychiatric researchers in the world. Since
moving to Western Australia in 1993, he has built up an impressive
research-based department and mounted a series of innovative studies of the
epidemiology of psychosis in Australia. His high international reputation is
illustrated not just by the international prizes he has been awarded but also
by the posts to which he has been appointed — membership of the
Executive Board of the WHO, Co-Chair of a US National Academy of Sciences
Committee and membership of the WPA's ethics committee. Professor Jablensky
has maintained many links with the UK since he worked here in the 1960s. He is
a Fellow of the College and a member of the International Advisory Boards of
both Psychological Medicine and the British Journal of
Psychiatry.
Dr Rosemary MacDonald
Dr MacDonald retired in October 2001 after 34 years of service to the NHS.
She has enjoyed a distinguished career, where her early reputation was based
on original research into pain relief for obstetric anaesthesia. She pioneered
the introduction of new clinical techniques as the first Clinical Director of
Anaesthetic Services at St James' University Hospital, one of the largest
teaching hospitals in Europe. Her subsequent career has become particularly
associated with her contributions to postgraduate education and training,
first as Clinical Sub-Dean of the Medical School in Leeds and then as Dean of
Postgraduate Medical Education to the Yorkshire Deanery from 1993 until the
present. She has encouraged the advancement of psychiatric training in the
region by her support in many areas, including: the development of the first
specialist postgraduate medical education centre specifically for trainees in
psychiatry; the continuance of the Masters training course at Leeds
University, assisting in its progressive quality improvements; providing new
funding for training courses; and the investments required to develop training
following recommendations from educational inspection visits. Since 1999, her
contributions as Lead Dean in Psychiatry will be familiar to many in the
College, during which time she has been active in supporting workforce
planning, rationalising national training numbers, encouraging recruitment and
retention and generally promoting training and development for the
speciality.
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