Michael Fitzgerald
Professor
Child Psychiatry
Technical University of Denmark
Ireland
Biography
Michael Fitzgerald was Henry Marsh Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College, Dublin. He was the first Profesor Of Child Psychiartry in Ireland. A Clinical and Research Consultant to the Irish Society for Autism and an Honorary member of the Northern Ireland Institute of Human Relations, he has a doctorate in the area of autism and has been a researcher in this area since 1973. He trained at St. Patrick’s Hospital Dublin, Chicago Medical School, and The Maudsley Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London. he has clinically diagnosed over 2000 individuals with autism and Asperger’s syndrome and has served on the Government Task Force on Autism and the Family. He has contributed to National and International Journals on autism and is the author of over 120 publications. He has written or co written 20 books.
Research Interest
Child Psychiatry
