Professor Robin M MURRAY   MD DSc FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci
Professor

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tel	020 7848 0100
fax	020 7701 9044
address	Institute of Psychiatry Box  P063 De Crespigny Park London United Kingdom, SE5 8AF
location	Main Wing
departments	Psychosis

biography

Prof R. Murray is Professor of Psychiatric Research, Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley, Kings College, University of London; and honorary consultant psychiatrist Maudsley Hospital PREVIOUS POSTS Junior Posts in Internal Medicine at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. 1972-1975 Senior House Officer and Registrar in Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London 1976-1977 MRC Visiting Fellow in Psychiatry at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 1978-1989 Senior Lecturer and then Dean at the Institute of Psychiatry 1989-1999 Professor of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry and King College Hospital Medical School 1999- 2009 Professory of psychiatry, Kings College AWARDS Gaskell Gold Medal for Clinical Psychiatry of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 Research Prize of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 Leverhulme Fellowship, 1988 Royal Society Senior Research Fellowship, 1993-94 Kurt Schneider Award from "Deutschen Gesellschaft furPsychiatrie", 1994 President of the European Association of Psychiatrists, Adolf Meyer Award of the American Psychiatric Association, 1997 Paul Hoch Award of the American Psychopathological Association, 1998 Dean Award of the American College of Psychiatrists, 1999 Hilton Distinguished Investigator Award of the National Alliance for Research into Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), 1999 Robert Sommer Award, 2000 Fifth Castilla del Pino Award for Achievement in Psychiatry, 2002 Honorary Member of the Association of European Psychiatry, 2002 Psykiatriyhdistys Suomen Medal of the Finnish Psychiatric Society, 2003 Lieber Award for Schizophrenia Research of NARSAD 2003 Elected Foreign Member of the US Institute of Medicine. 2003 Fellow of Kings College, London 2004 Medal of University of Helsinki 2004 William K. Warren Award of the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research Elected Member of Academia Europaea 2005

activities and interests

My main activity is carrying out research into finding the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and developing better treatments for these disorders. I also care for patients within the National Psychosis Unit at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. People with psychotic illnesses from across the UK come to see us for advice as outpatients and may be admitted to our in-patient unit. I have tried to avoid drowning, not always successfully, in the the useless committees that Universities and the NHS spawn.

I enjoy teaching and I have supervised 33 PhDs and 5 MD Theses (with 100% success)

publications

last updated: Friday, April 11, 2008