Thomas Lynch (psychiatrist)

Professor Thomas Lynch (1922–2005) was the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He was also the first to develop a psychiatric unit in a general hospital in the Republic of Ireland.^[1]

He was a founding member of the Mental Health Association of Ireland (now Mental Health Ireland)^[2] in 1966^[3] and served on a number of boards including: The National Drugs Advisory Board, The National Rehabilitation Board, the Central Remedial Clinic and the Eastern Health Board^[4]

Thomas Lynch was the son of Irish freedom fighter and politician Fionán Lynch

References

1. ↑ "Irish Times obituary". The Irish Times. 2 February 2005. 
2. ↑ http://mentalhealthireland.ie/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
3. ↑ "Mental Health Ireland article". 
4. ↑ "Royal College of Pschyiatrics Bulliton".