Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy

Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy

Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy (born January 16, 1947 ) is a British psychiatrist , university professor and politician who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 2004 .

Life

After attending school, Elaine Murphy studied medicine and then worked as a psychiatrist at various teaching hospitals in London and subsequently as a research fellow at Bedford College , before she was an advisory psychiatrist at the Regional Health Authority (RHA ) of the National Health Service from 1981 to 1983 for the north east Thames region in Essex .

In 1983 she became a professor of geriatric psychiatry at the University of London and taught there until 1996. In addition was Elaine Murphy from 1987 to 1994 Vice-chairman of the commission for drafting the Law on Mental Health ( Mental Health Act ) and from 1995 to 1998 and chairman of the Health Service of the London Borough of Hackney . She then served as Chair of the Health Administration for East London and the City of London between 1998 and 2002, and then until 2006 Chair of the NHS Strategic Health Authority for North East London.

By a letters patent dated June 17, 2004, Elaine Murphy was raised to the nobility as a life peeress with the title Baroness Murphy , of Aldgate in the City of London . Shortly afterwards, on 28 July 2004 bringing Introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house she belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

Subsequently, Baroness Murphy, who received honorary doctorates from the University of Stirling (1993), City University London (2006) and University of London (2007) and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , chaired the Council between 2006 and 2010 from St George's, University of London, University of London Faculty of Medicine . In January 2009 it was announced that they invented an article about the disease along with her husband cello scrotum wrote that in the prestigious 1974 journal British Medical Journal had appeared.

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)

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 25, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 25, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 25, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Cello-Testicles" was just a joke. In: Der Spiegel from January 28, 2009
2. ↑ The invented "cello testicle". ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 28, 2009 
3. ↑ Cello scrotum? It's a load of ... nonsense, admits Baroness Murphy. In: The Times, January 28, 2009