ROBERT JAMES REEVES, M.D. 1898-1968

Lionel Sharples Penrose (1898-1972), MA,MD,DSc,FRCP,FRS.

Sir Robert James Johnstone, B.A., M.B., F.R.C.S.ENG

IT is with profound regret that we have to record the death of Sir Robert John-stone, at Newcastle, Co. Down, after a relatively short and trying illness. It is impossible in one short article to recapitulate the scope and extent of his many activities, and a brief summary must suffice. Seldom has it been granted to one man to achieve so many distinctions, and to adorn so many high offices. A C...

James Patrick Watson MD, FRCP, FRCPsych

James (Jim) Watson, who died after a stroke on 3 August 2016 aged 80, was among a small band of British psychiatrists who trained in the 1960s and 70s to take psychiatry out of the asylums and establish robust services in general hospital and community settings. They were also responsible for developing a wide range of specialist mental health services. Jim was deeply committed to improving the...

Robert I. Simon, MD: Of psychiatry, law, and books.

Dr. Robert I. Simon, this year’s President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL), is an exceptional psychiatrist, teacher, and colleague. His contributions have earned him the most prestigious awards in the field of forensic psychiatry. In perhaps the ultimate acknowledgment of his erudition, the Supreme Court cited one of his books, Clinical Psychiatry and the Law (1987), in...

Robert Gary Mennel, MD: a conversation with the editor.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:374–385 B ob Mennel (Figure 1) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 27, 1944, and grew up there. After attending parochial schools he went to St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, graduating in 1970. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the University of Roch...