Professor Sir Michael Rutter graduated from Birmingham
University Medical School in 1955. After postgraduate posts in
neurology, paediatrics and cardiology, he undertook training in
psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital in London, qualifying with
distinction in 1961 before going to spend a year on a research
fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. On
his return he joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Social
Psychiatry Unit, remaining until appointed as Senior Lecturer at
the Institute of Psychiatry in London in 1966, subsequently reader
and then, in 1973, Professor of Child Psychiatry and Head of the
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
From 1984 to 1998 he was Honorary Director of the MRC Child
Psychiatry Research Unit and from 1994 to 1998 he was also Honorary
Director of the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry
Research Centre, both of which he set up at the Institute of
Psychiatry. Since 1998 he has held the position of Professor of
Developmental Psychopathology. He has published some 38 books and
over 400 scientific papers and chapters.
He was elected to the Royal Society in 1987, was knighted in
1992, and was a founder member of both the Academia Europaea and
the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a foreign member of the US
Institute of Medicine, and is currently president of the Society
for Research into Child Development. He won the Helmut Horten
Foundation prize in 1997, the Castilla del Pino prize in 1995, and
the Ruane prize in 2000. He has honorary degrees from the
Universities of Leiden, Louvain, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Chicago,
Minnesota, Ghent, Jyvaskyla, Warwick and East Anglia.
Dorothy Bishop
Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford
University, Oxford, England
Daniel Pine
NIMH Intramural Research Program, Bethesda, MD, USA
Steven Scott
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of
Psychiatry, King's College, London, England
Jim S Stevenson
Associate Dean, Department of Psychology, University of
Southampton, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and
School of Psychology, Southampton, England
Eric Taylor
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, MRC Social Genetic
and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, England
Anita Thapar
Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, Cardiff University
School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK
