Philip Boyce (psychiatrist)

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In 2016, The RANZCP's highest and most prestigious award, the College Medal of Honour, was presented to Professor Philip Boyce for distinguished and meritorious service to the college. Professor Boyce has served the college and his patients extensively and with great distinction as an outstanding leader and researcher over many years.

He met his future wife Jacqueline Wilkes (deceased 2013) in England; they emigrated to Australia, where they married in 1976. He lives with the journalist and writer Nikki Barrowclough.

Boyce is on eight committees and boards, including the Bipolar Advisory Board and Chair, Standing Committee for the Training of Psychiatrists, NSW Institute of Psychiatry. He was the president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists from 2003 to 2005.

In 1990, Boyce became the Area Director of Mental Health, and an Associate Professor in Psychiatry and a Director of the Mental Health division at the Penrith District Health Service. After becoming the Sub-Dean at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney Nepean Hospital, Boyce also became the Acting Head of the Department of Psychological Medicine.

Boyce worked at the Parramatta Psychiatric Centre in Richmond from 1977 to 1978. He then moved to Adelaide, where he worked at Hillcrest Hospital as a Consultant Psychiatrist, and in 1980, he became the Director of Affective Disorders Unit, as well as a Clinical Lecturer. In 1984, he moved to Sydney to take up a position at the University of New South Wales as a lecturer in Psychiatry, as well as a consultant at the Prince of Wales and Prince Henry Hospitals. In 1989, Boyce became a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, and a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Prince Henry Hospital.

Philip Manley Boyce (born 20 September 1949) is an Australian psychiatrist. He is a professor of psychiatry and head of discipline of psychiatry at the University of Sydney, and head of Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Research Unit at Westmead Hospital. He has published more than 170 articles, and frequently contributes to psychiatric textbooks. He currently serves as associate editor of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He has a long clinical and research interest in anxiety disorders, mood disorders, psychosomatic disorders, and perinatal psychiatry. He has also taken leadership roles in the profession as president of the RANZCP and the international Marcé society, in the development of clinical practice guidelines, and in the development of a competency-based training program for the college.

Philip Manley Boyce was born on 20 September 1949 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Madeline Millicent Manley and Hugh Boyce. He has two older brothers – Lord Boyce and Graham Boyce. Boyce studied at Guy's Hospital Medical School from 1968 to 1973. He earned a Diploma of Psychotherapy from the University of Adelaide in 1980, and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of New South Wales in 1990.