Professor of child and adolescent psychiatry University of Manchester (b 1956; q Birmingham 1980), died from postoperative complications on 22 May 2004.
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Richard Harrington studied psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, before taking a research post at the Institute of Psychiatry, where he began his studies of children and adolescents with depressive illness. After two years as senior lecturer in Birmingham he was appointed professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at Manchester University. He became chairman of the British Child Psychiatry Research Society and vice president of the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In 1998 the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry presented him with an award for best original research in the field of depression in young people. He leaves a wife, Lesley, and three children.
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