Edward B. Guy, a former faculty member in the department of psychiatry, died on August 20. He was 97.

Dr. Guy attended the College of William and Mary on an academic scholarship. During his freshman year there, he learned of a U.S. Navy program that trained physicians for World War II. Based on his high scores on aptitude tests, Dr. Guy was selected for an accelerated program that required him to take pre-med courses in a compressed schedule. He finished the coursework in two years and entered the Medical College of Virginia, today Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree. 

After graduating, Dr. Guy completed residencies in internal medicine and psychiatry and served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He then moved his family to Philadelphia to teach at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, now the Perelman School of Medicine. He became assistant instructor of psychiatry in 1953, and was promoted to instructor two years later, a position he held until 1969. 

Dr. Guy was a practicing forensic psychologist, and in April 1969 he and coauthors Melvin S. Heller and Samuel Polsky published a paper in the Prison Journal, “Disposition of Mentally Ill Offender,” that addressed their concerns regarding the mental health and criminal justice systems. That same year, Dr. Guy left Penn to pursue prison justice and became a psychiatrist for the Philadelphia Prison System. In the 1970s, he became medical director of the Philadelphia Prison System.

Dr. Guy is survived by his first wife, Gloria Rankin; his children, Edward Guy, Jr., Thomas Guy, Nancy Wheeler and Susan Guy Brown; his stepchildren, Jonathan Crane and Susan Crane; 11 grandchildren; and his companion, Susan Andres. A private service was held.