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In conversation with H. Steven Greer

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Dr H. Steven Greer read medicine at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, graduating in 1952. His subsequent medical training was at the Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He came to London in 1957 and trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital from 1957-1960. After a year as a senior registrar at Cane Hill Hospital he returned to Perth, where he worked as a consultant psychiatrist for four years. Returning to London in 1964, he was appointed Lecturer (Reader in 1968) in Psychological Medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School, where he remained until 1986. His research at first centred on parasuicide, and from 1971 onwards on psychological aspects of cancer. Together with medical colleagues he founded the Faith Courtauld Unit for Human Studies in Cancer (funded by Faith Courtauld) and the British Psycho-Oncology Society. As a result of his research he was invited to join the Royal Marsden Hospital, where he set up the Department of Psychological Medicine. He was awarded the Sutherland Memorial Award for pioneering work in psycho-oncology in 1996 in New York. Since 1996, he has worked part-time at St Raphael's Hospice in Cheam. He is co-author of several books and many papers and continues to write and lecture.