Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy

Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy, of Aldgate in the City of London ( born January 16, 1947) is a British psychiatrist, university teacher and politician, who is a life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 2004.

Life

After schooling Elaine Murphy holds a degree in medicine and subsequently worked as a psychiatrist at various teaching hospitals in London and subsequently as a research assistant at Bedford College, before 1981-1983 consultative psychiatrist of the Regional Health Administration RHA ( Regional Health Authority ) of the National Health Service for the North East Thames region in Essex.

In 1983 she was appointed professor of geriatric psychiatry at the University of London and taught there until 1996. Besides was Elaine Murphy between 1987 and 1994 of the Commission on the draft law on mental hygiene Vice - Chairman ( Mental Health Act ) and from 1995 to 1998 and Chairman of the Health Service of the London Borough of Hackney. Subsequently, she was between 1998 and 2002 chairman of the Department of Health East London and the City of London and then to 2006 Chairman of the Strategic Health Administration (NHS Strategic Health Authority) for North East London.

Was raised in the City of London to the peerage Elaine Murphy as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Murphy of Aldgate By Letters Patent dated 17 June 2004. Shortly afterwards, on 28 June 2004 was their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the group of so-called Cross Bencher.

In the following period was Baroness Murphy, honorary doctorates from the University of Stirling ( 1993), City University London (2006) and the University of London ( 2007) were awarded and the Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists is, between 2006 and 2010 Chairman of the Council St George's, University of London, Faculty of Medicine, University of London. In January 2009 it was announced that she co-authored with her ​​husband, an article about the fictional disease Cello testicles, which had appeared in 1974 in the prestigious journal British Medical Journal.

Publications

  • Dementia and Mental Illness in Older People (1986 )
  • After the Asylums (1991 )
  • Dementia and Mental Illness in the Old (1993 )
  • The Falling Shadow ( co-author, 1995)
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