David Goldberg (psychiatrist)
Sir David Paul Brandes Goldberg FKC FMedSci FRCP (28 January 1934 – 5 September 2024) was a British academic and social psychiatrist.
Life and career
[edit]Goldberg was born to Jewish parents in Hampstead, London on 28 January 1934.[1] He trained at the Maudsley Hospital in South London under Sir Aubrey Lewis and Sir Michael Shepherd. After nearly a quarter of a century as Professor at the University of Manchester, and head of the Department of Psychiatry, in 1993 Professor Goldberg returned to the Maudsley as both Director of Research and Development, and of Education, to run the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.[2][3]
His prolific research output included the widely-adopted 'Clinical Interview Schedule' and 'General Health Questionnaire', validated tools for psychiatric research, and influential epidemiological work on psychiatric morbidity in the community.[4][5][6] He was a long-term advisor to the World Health Organization.[7][8][9][2][10] In 1996 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.[11]
Goldberg retired in 2000, as a professor emeritus. He had four children and nine grandchildren, and he took up residence in south London. Goldberg died on 5 September 2024, at the age of 90.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Bhugra, Dinesh (9 October 2024). "Sir David Goldberg obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ a b "An erudite encounter with: Sir David Goldberg". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 51 (1): 103–104. 1 January 2017. doi:10.1177/0004867416684553. ISSN 0004-8674. PMID 28030979.
- ^ "King's College London - Professor Sir David Goldberg wins Lifetime Achievement Award 2009". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ Goldberg, David; Huxley, Peter (1980). Mental Illness in the Community: The pathway to psychiatric care (1st ed.). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203714904. ISBN 978-0-203-71490-4.
- ^ "Google Scholar DP Goldberg". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ "David Goldberg King's College London". Research Gate. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Goldberg". Hertford College | University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ Fannon, Dominic (2010). "Professor Sir David Goldberg". The Psychiatrist. 34 (2): 80. doi:10.1192/pb.bp.109.029058. ISSN 1758-3209.
- ^ Obordo, Rachel; Johnson, Sarah; Bannock, Caroline (2 July 2018). "'We felt we were special': 70 years of saving lives on the NHS frontline". The Guardian. Photography by Canter, Alicia. Retrieved 2 July 2021.
- ^ Goldberg, David (2009). "Looking back over my professional life". Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. 119 (5): 333–337. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2009.01348.x. ISSN 1600-0447. PMID 19351345.
- ^ "CENTRAL CHANCERY OF THE ORDERS OF KNIGHTHOOD" (PDF). London Gazette. 28 January 1997. p. 1095.
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