Dr. Cameron was born in Bridge of Allen, Scotland, and received an M.B. (1924) and M.D. (1936) from the University of Glasgow. His psychiatric experience began at the Royal Glasgow Hospital, and by 1926, he was at the Phipps Clinic in Baltimore for two years, holding the Henderson Research Scholarship. He then spent one year at the hospital in Switzerland and, from (1929–36), worked at various units of the Provincial Mental Hospital in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. He came to the U.S. again to work at the State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts (1936–38) and then moved to the Albany Medical School as Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology. In 1943, he returned to Canada as Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University.
He served as psychiatrist-in-chief at the Royal Victoria Hospital and director of the Allen Memorial Institute of Psychiatry. Dr. Cameron published several books and more than 125 papers on a wide range of psychiatric subjects, from biological to cultural to social psychiatry. Dr. Cameron served as President of the American Psychiatric Association from 1952–53. Charles M. Campbell, M.D., 1876–1943 Dr. Campbell was born in Edinburgh Scotland, and received his education at the University of Edinburgh: M.A. (1897), B.S. (1909), M.B. (1902), Ch.B. (1902) and M.D. (1911).
In 1904, he was offered a position at the Pathological Institute of New York (now Psychiatric Institute) under Dr. Adolf Meyer, where he remained until 1907, when he returned to Scotland’s Royal Edinburgh Asylum. In 1908, he returned to New York as an instructor in psychiatry at Cornell Medical College, and (1911–13), he served as an assistant physician at the Bloomingdale Hospital (now New York Hospital, Westchester Division). From 1913–20, he joined Dr. Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Phipps Clinic in research and teaching and during WWI, served as a civilian surgeon training Army medical officers for neuropsychiatric duties.
In 1920, he moved to Boston to become Director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School until his death in 1943. Throughout his career, his research and teaching activities included many publications.
Dr. Campbell was active in many professional organizations, serving as President of the American Psychopathology Society (1918), Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1924), Massachusetts Psychiatric Association (1935), and for ten years as President of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene. He was honored by being invited to give endowed lectures and, in 1935, gave the Salmon Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Campbell served as President of the American Psychiatric Association (1936–37).