Psychiatrist ready to celebrate 95th birthday

Rick Monroe

Special to the Village News

Dr. George Megahy Simpson, a Fallbrook resident for seven years, is looking forward to a birthday celebration next month with many of his friends and some of the psychiatrists he has mentored. He turns 95 on Sept. 28.

Simpson, a noted American in the advancement of psychiatric drug research, was born in Scotland and received a degree in biochemistry from Glasgow University in 1948. He received his medical degree from Liverpool University in England in 1955 and spent the early years of his career as a resident in psychiatry at a research center at Rocklan...