David Healey

David Healy’s roles have included Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor, Cardiff and McMaster Universities. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. He has authored of over 240 peer reviewed articles, 300 other pieces and 25 books, including The Antidepressant Era, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, The Psychopharmacologists Volumes 1-3, Let Them Eat Prozac, Mania, Children of the Cure and Shipwreck of the Singular.

He is a founder of Data Based Medicine and RxISK.org. He has raised awareness of how companies sell drugs by marketing diseases and co-opting academic opinion-leaders, ghost-writing their articles.