George M. Simpson, MD

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Title:

  • Professor of Research
  • Director, Outpatient Clinic

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Specialties:

  • Psychiatry - Adult

Sub-specialties:

  • Schizophrenia
  • Psychosis
  • Psychotic Depression
  • Major Depression

Background:

Dr. Simpson is part of the Department of Psychiatry and director of clinical research at the USC Keck School of Medicine. He was interim chairman, Department of Psychiatry, and director of the adult outpatient clinic, Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center from 1997-2005. He belongs to numerous organizations and has held a variety of positions in the American College of Neuro-Psychopharmacology, including serving as President in 1992. Dr. Simpson was elected honorary president of the Egyptian Psychiatric Association in 2003 andhas published widely in the field of schizophrenia and depression.

Education:

  • Doctor of Medicine, Medicine, Liverpool University, England 1955

Internships:

  • Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, England 1955 - 1956

Residencies:

  • Royal Victoria Hospital: McGill University, Canada 1956 - 1957
  • Rockland Hospital: New York, Psychiatry 1957 - 1959

Board Certification:

  • American Board of Psychiatry

Professional Society Memberships:

  • American College of Clinical Pharmacology
  • American College of Neuropsychophamacology, Fellow and President 1991
  • American Psychiatric Association, Life Fellow
  • American College of Psychiatrists
  • American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Theapeuctics CINP
  • Royal College of Psychiatry, Fellow and Founding Member
  • Society of Biological Psychiatry
  • Southern California Psychiatric Society National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Awards:

  • The Arthur P. Noyes Award for outstanding contributions in the field of schizophrenia in 1991
  • Honorary Doctor of Medicine from the University of Goetberg in Sweden in 1994
  • Heinz E. Lehman Research Award in 1999.

Languages:

  • English
  • French