David Healy, MD – Long Bio

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David Healy, MD, is an internationally known psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist, scientist, and author. A professor of psychiatry in Wales, he studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more thanĀ 150 peer-reviewed articles, 200 other pieces, andĀ 20 books, includingĀ The Antidepressant EraĀ andĀ The Creation of PsychopharmacologyĀ from Harvard University Press,Ā The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3Ā andĀ Let Them Eat Prozac from New York University Press, andĀ ManiaĀ from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Davidā€™s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.

He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving psychotropic drugs, and in bringing problems with these drugs to the attention of American and British regulators, as well raising awareness of how pharmaceutical companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles. His latest book isĀ Pharmageddon, which tells of how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America and the life-threatening results.

David is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Data Based Medicine Limited, which operates through its websiteĀ RxISK.org, and is dedicated to making medicines safer through online direct patient reporting of drug effects.

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