Michael Russell (psychiatrist)
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Michael Anthony Hamilton Russell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 March 1932[1] |
| Died | 16 July 2009 |
| Citizenship | South African / British |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford Guy's Hospital Medical School |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychiatry |
| Sub-discipline | Addiction |
| Institutions | Institute of Psychiatry |
Michael Anthony Hamilton Russell (9 March 1932 – 16 July 2009) was a public health scientist and psychiatrist with particular expertise in the field of cigarette smoking for which he identified nicotine as the key factor in tobacco dependence.[2]
Russell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 9 March 1932. He first studied law before switching to medicine at the University of Oxford[1] and did his clinical training at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London. Returning to South Africa he worked as a junior doctor at Groote Schuur Hospital where he decided to specialise in psychiatry. He returned to London to train at the Maudsley Hospital.[3]
He began his research career in Griffith Edwards’ Addiction Research Unit[4] in the Institute of Psychiatry. He received a programme grant from Medical Research Council to focus his research on the psychopharmacology of smoking. He was appointed professor of addiction in 1986, and his work at the Maudsley continued until 1998.[3][5]
In his retirement he returned to South Africa where he died 16 July 2009.[3]
