Archives (Ban Collection) February 12, 2015 1 THOMAS A. BAN CURRICULUM VITAE 1177 Yonge Street, Suite 607, Toronto, ON M4T 2Y4 Canada Tel: (1-416) 3248761 tomban@bell.net PERSONAL DATA: Born: Budapest, Hungary, November 16, 1929 Citizenship: Canadian, March 1, 1962 Family Status: Married (Joan Evelyn Valley) Son (Christopher) EDUCATION: Medical Student ResidentPsychiatrist Clinical Fellow Rotating Intern Resident Psychiatrist Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. 1948-1954 National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, Hungary 1954-1956 Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada, (January-June) 1957 Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Canada, 1957-1958 Verdun Protestant Hospital, Verdun, Canada, 1958-1959 Allan Memorial Institute, Montreal, Canada, 1959-1960 CERTIFICATIONS, DIPLOMAS, LICENCES: MD Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary, 1954 LMCC Licenced Member of the Canadian Medical Council, 1959 DP Diploma in Psychiatry with Distinction, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1960 CPRC(C) Certification in Psychiatry,
CPRC(QU) FRCP(C) 2 Royal College Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,November 12, 1962 Certification in Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Province of Quebec, December 17, 1962 Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,October 12, 1972 Quebec, Canada Licensed Member of the Corporation Professionalls des Medicine de Quebec, Montreal, 1962- Tennessee,USA Licensed Member of the State of Tennessee Licensing Board for the Healing Arts, Nashville, 1976- Ontario,Canada PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: A. Academic Licensed Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Toronto, 1993- Demonstrator McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada 1960-1963 Lecturer McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada 1963-1965 Assistant Professor McGill University, Department of Psychiatry. Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada 1965-1970 Associate Professor McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Montreal, Canada 1970-1976 Professor of Psychiatry Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA 1976-1995 Emeritus Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. USA 1995- B. Administrative Senior Psychiatrist Verdun Protestant Hospital, Verdun, Quebec, Canada 1960-1961 Chief, Clinical Research Service Douglas Hospital, Verdun, Quebec, Canada 1961-1971
Director, Division of Psychopharmacology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1971-1976 Head, National Reference Center, World Health Organization Collaborating Reference Center Network for the Study of Psychotropic Drugs (Canada), Montreal, Canada 1972-1976 Director, WHO Training Program in Biological Psychiatry,(WHO Collaborating Reference Center Network),Montreal, Canada 1972-1976 Director, Clinical Research Service, Tennesse Neuropsychiatric Institute, Nashville, USA 1976-1983 Director, Division of Psychopharmacology, Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA 1983-1995 President, FMCP Ltd., Toronto, Canada 1995-2001 Chairman, Board of Directors, FMCP Ltd., Toronto, Canada 1995-2004 C. Other Appointments 3 Consultant Psychiatrist, Lakeshore General Hospital, Pointe- Claire, Canada 1971-1986 Consultant Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 1981-1983 Consultant Psychiatrist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA 1984-1995 Consultant Psychiatrist, VA Medical Center, Nashville, USA 1984-1995 Consultant Psychiatrist, Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, Nashville, USA 1984-1995 Consultant Psychiatrist, Vanderbilt Child and Adolescent PH, Nashville, USA 1989-1995 SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES:
4 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Emeritus Fellow; Life Member, History Committee (2002) American Medical Association, Member American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Life Fellow, Canadian Medical Association, Member Canadian Psychiatric Association, Life Fellow Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum, Honorary Fellow (2002) Hungarian Psychiatric Association, Honorary Member Hungarian Association of Psychopharmacology, Honorary Member International Collegium of Composite Diagnostic Evaluation in Psychiatry, Honorary President International Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard Society, Honorary Fellow The Argentine Association of Biological Psychiatry, Honorary Member The Societe Royale de Medecine Mentale de Belgique, Honorary Member HONORS AND AWARDS Medical University of Budapest Student Competition Neurology and Psychiatry Award, 1953 Ban Tamas es Fenyvesi Tamas: A traumas epilepsziakortana Quebec Literary and Scientific Competition, 1965, Honorary Mention Conditioning and Psychiatry, Aldine, Chicago 1964 McNeil Award of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, 1969 T.A. Ban, H.E. Lehmann and B.M. Saxena: A conditioning test battery for the study of psychopathological mechanisms and psychopharmacological effects Clarke Institute of Psychiatry Annual Research Fund Award, 1970 Psychopharmacology, Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore 1968
McNeil Award of the Canadaian Psychiatric Association, 1970 T.A. Ban and H.E. Lehmann: Nicotinic acid in the treatment of schizophrenia. Progress Report I McNeil Award of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, 1973 Nicotinic acid in the treatment of schizophrenia. Complementary Report A Young Scientist Award of the Semmelweis Scientific Society, 1975 John F. Kennedy Medal, 1991 John F. Kennedy University of Argentina State of New York Office of Mental Health Heinz E. Lehmann Research Award for Outstanding Contibutions to Research 1996 Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2003 5 EDITORIAL BOARDS (Past) Ideg-, Elme-, es Idegsebeszeti Tajekoztato. Tovabbkepzo es referalo kozlony (Hungary). Co-editor 1955-1956 Neurologiai es Psychiatriai Tajekoztato (Hungary) Co-editor 1955-1956 --------------------- Alcmeon Revista de Clinica Neuropsiquiatrica (Argentina) Formazione Psichiatrica (Italy) Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria (Brasil) Modern Problems of Pharmacopsychiatry (Karger) Co-editor Neuropsychobiology (Karger) Co-editor Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica (Hungary) Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry Psychiatria Hungarica (Hungary)
6 Psiquis (Spain). International Network for the History of Neuropsychopharmacology (INHN Website) Founding Editor 2013- Thomas A. Ban February 12, 2015