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North Wales Clinical School

Professor David Healey

David HealeyDavid Healy is Director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine of Cardiff University, and a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology.  He has been involved as an expert witness in homicide and suicide trials involving SSRI drugs, and in bringing these problems to the attention of American and British regulators.  He has raised awareness of how pharmaceutical companies market drugs by marketing diseases and co-opt academic opinion-leaders by ghost-writing their articles.  His main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, and the history of psychopharmacology.  He is the author of over 130 peer reviewed articles, 200 other pieces and 15 books, including The Antidepressant Era, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology from Harvard University Press, The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3, and Let Them Eat Prozac from New York University Press.