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David Healy

When David Healy accepted the positions as clinical director of the mood and anxiety disorders program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto, he had no idea that academic freedom was not part of the deal.

Healy, an eminent scholar at the University of Wales College of Medicine, was actively recruited by the centre and department of psychiatry starting in July of 1999, and agreed to accept their offer in September of 2000.

In November, Healy was one of several distinguished researchers invited to speak at an international colloquium in Toronto on the history and future of psychiatry. Healy spoke about the interaction of new drugs and the social order and the conflicts between clinical practice, science and business. He expressed concern that large pharmaceutical companies, like big tobacco companies, may be avoiding research that reveals the hazards of their products.

Resources

Settlement in Healy Legal Dispute a Vindication (Apr 2002)
Law Suit Launched Against U of T and CAMH in Dr. David Healy Controversy (Sept 2001)
Academic Freedom In Jeopardy in Toronto (May 2001)