Michael Simpson Email & Phone Number

Entrepreneur, developing projects in health care, education and journalism, online and print, emphasizing wit and community engagement

Research Associate, Programme for Educational Development (PED), McMaster University, 1973-1976. Visiting Researcher, Institut fur Ausbildungsforschung, Munich, W. Germany, 1970; working on Tripod test, developing Descriptive Profile of Individual Curriculum Variables.Senior Research Fellow, Royal Free Hospital, London University, 1976-1979, funded by.

Expertise in the field of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry ( member of the Forensic Section of the British Royal College of Psychiatry ) Worked notably in the pate apartheid era in a series of human rights court cases in South Africa, the investigation of allegations of human rights abuses, including developing several internationally recognized.

Worked in Britain with survivors of the conflict in Northern Ireland & with victims of crime and other trauma including domestic & child abuse; and in America with Vietnam veterans. An early proposer of the need for a Truth Commission in South Africa, & nominated as a prospective Commission member, was deeply disappointed by the profoundly flawed &.

. Work with London University, Institute of Education, University Teaching Methods Research Unit, 1967-1973, including training of new University teachers. Member, International Society for Research in Medical Education, IRME, Leiden, 1972-1975. Member, Curriculum Committee, Guy's Hospital Medical School, 1972 & 1973. Work with Association for the Study of.

Many Different International Universities & colleges.

International Universities, including Berkeley, California; Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Chicago; Beer Sheva, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; McGill, Montreal; Basel, Switzerland; Cambridge, UK; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Berne, Switzerland; Dusseldorf Germany; Case-Western Reserve.

Started devising a free-advice website with CSIR, then formed Cybershrink for free psychiatric, medical & psychological advice with MWeb. when it started. Later this content area merged with Yourhealth.co.za, which became Health24.com, within the broader Naspers online media. As the site developed, I wrote more for it, including Columns on health aspects.

South Africa

While in Durban, along with some excellent colleagues, we formed Omega, the Overseas Medical Graduates Association, to work with and help the many South African ( & other ) graduates mainly from black and Indian communities who had been unable to get into medical schools in South Africa due to apartheid, and had studied abroad, only to find that on.

Johannesburg, South Africa

Developing and advising on new technological, clinical and educational programmes within the Hospital group. Also private clinical practice, mainly focussed on work as expert witness in major human rights trials with political detainees.

Durban, Kwa-Zulu / Natal, South Africa

As Deputy Dean / Assistant Dean, I carried a large burden of administrative work in areas ranging from admissions through coordinating exams, to collating faculty returns on surveys of how they spent their time, which yielded surprising claims from some academics, that they worked for even more hours than occur in the day or indeed year. Undergraduate and.

London, UK

Senior Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer & Specialist in Psychiatry & in Medicine. Research in doctor-patient communication, & the potential for educational techniques to influence attitudes and behaviour. Clinical work and teaching in the Dept.'s of psychiatry & of medicine, in liaison psychiatry service.

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Prof. of Family Practice & Community Health. Writing & administering federal research & development grants, teaching undergraduate & postgraduate students in both Departments. Director of Residency Training for a time. Clinical work in psychiatry & interdisciplinary medicine with members of the Dept of Medicine. For a.

London, United Kingdom

Routine psychiatric services and undergraduate & post-graduate teaching; developed a Consultation-Liaison service, seeing all referrals for psychiatric opinion from all other parts of the hospital, and all emergency referrals from Casualty. Started my researches into suicide and self-mutilation / wrist-cutting, later published in journals and some major.

Europe

Executive member from early 1967; General Assembly, Vienna, August 1967; EOM Paris, December 67-Jan 68; General Assembly, Helsinki, August 1968; EOM Amsterdam December 1968; ANEMF European Conference, Besancon.

Bachelor Of Medicine, Bachelor Of Surgery (M.B.B.S.) Equivalent Of American Md, Medicine & Surgery

Activities and Societies: Pupil's Physiology Society ( founded in 1800'a ) ; founded Psychological Society, with initial lecturers.

University Entrance Matriculation, With A Distinction.

Activities and Societies: Editorial Board of The Pretorian, but mainly occupied by remaining stubbornly independent, and avoiding sports..

It'S A Primary School, Dammit ! No Degrees Allowed, Everything Offered, Preferably Off-Curriculum., A Highlight Revealed Below

Activities and Societies: Pretoria Centenary Pageant, November 1955, I played a Wildebeest ( a Gnother Gnu ), and rather well, I thought..