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This page lists everyone who contributed to the creation and development of mentalhealthcare.org.uk, or was involved with the development of the website at some time. Because mentalhealthcare is no longer being regularly updated, people's job titles and places of work may no longer be current: the individual details listed were correct when initially added to the page or last updated.
Professor Paul Bebbington
is emeritus professor of social and community psychiatry at the Mental Health Sciences Unit, University College London.
Dr Jonathan Bindman
is a consultant psychiatrist working at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Len Bowers
is a professor of psychiatric nursing at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked in hospitals and community-based teams before moving into management. He took up a full-time research position at City University and embarked on a programme of research about ways to reduce conflict (including violence and absconding) and containment on inpatient wards. Len and his research team moved to the Institute of Psychiatry in 2010.
Lucy Bristow
is a freelance camerawoman and part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, maintain and develop mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013. She shoots TV dramas, features, documentaries and films for the web and is experienced at working both on film and digitally.
Professor Richard Brown
is a professor of neuropsychology and clinical neuroscience and head of the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Dr Brock Chisholm
is a clinical psychologist who works at the Forced Migration Trauma Service run by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. This is a specialist NHS clinic that provides treatment for refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants who have post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of war, torture, violence, rape or other trauma experienced in adulthood.
His research interests are in trauma and psychosis. He conducts workshops for other mental health professionals about how to work with people who have suffered traumatic events who are experiencing psychotic symptoms. He also works with human rights charities and legal firms.
Professor Tom Craig
is professor of community and social psychiatry in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist, working for services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Anthony David
is a professor of cognitive neuropsychiatry in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Dr Paola Dazzan
works in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Her research focuses on the causes of postpartum psychosis and the causes and treatment of schizophrenia. She is also an honorary consultant psychiatrist in the National Perinatal Psychiatry Services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Gabriela Enis
is a film editor and part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013. She has more than 20 years' of experience in British television and in recent years has been making films for the web. She teaches the art and technique of editing and how to use relevant software programmes in film schools and training centres around the UK. She also teaches documentary film-making in schools.
Professor Daniel Freeman
is a professor of clinical psychology and MRC senior clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He also works as a consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is one of the world’s leading experts on paranoia.
Sophie Gibson
is a designer who is part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013.
Professor Gisli Gudjonsson CBE
is emeritus professor of forensic psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Dr Colin Hemmings
is a consultant psychiatrist in learning disabilities for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting research associate at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Dr Claire Henderson
is a researcher in the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and a consultant psychiatrist working for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Much of her research focuses on developing ways to combat discrimination against people with mental health problems, including the evaluation of the anti-stigma campaign Time to Change.
Dr Nick Hervey
was formerly head of social care in the integrated mental health service managed by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) in Southwark before his retirement in May 2012. He was also head of social care in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group (CAG) within the Academic Health Sciences Centre called King's Health Partners (made up of King's College London and NHS organisations including SLaM). He trained as a social worker and worked in mental health services for more than 25 years.
Dr Frank Holloway
is an emeritus consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is a second opinion appointed doctor, a medical member of the Mental Health Tribunal and a Mental Health Act trainer.
Alice Jackson
is head of arts therapies in the Psychosis Clinical Academic Group at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She manages and supervises art, music and dance/movement therapists and also works in a community-based team where she sees people for individual art therapy.
Dr Suzanne Jolley
is a consultant clinical psychologist working for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, and a research clinical psychologist in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Dr Theresa Joyce
is a consultant clinical psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She is the trust's Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding Adults clinical 'lead'.
Professor Cornelius Katona
is emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Kent, honorary professor of psychiatry of the elderly at University College London and works as a consultant psychiatrist for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. His main research interests are in dementia, mood disorders in old age and the mental health of asylum seekers.
Dr Nadine Keen
is a clinical psychologist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She previously worked at the Traumatic Stress Clinic in London (run by Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust), offering specialist care to people with post traumatic stress disorder, and as a clinical psychologist on the London Bombings Screen and Treat Programme.
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers
led the redevelopment and relaunch of mentalhealthcare.org.uk in February 2010 and had overall responsibility for the ongoing development and maintenance of the site while it was still being regularly updated (until 30 April 2013). While the site remains online (even though not updated) she is still responsible for it.
A professor of clinical psychology, she was head of the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London until October 2012. Her research focuses on psychosis and has included the development of work with families of people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and the development of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She chaired the group responsible for the development of the updated NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) guideline for schizophrenia, published in March 2009 and is chairing the group responsible for a partial update of the same guideline.
Tony Loynes
was a member of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to maintain and develop mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013.
Dr James MacCabe
works in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. His research focuses on bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, looking at causes and treatments. He is also an honorary consultant psychiatrist in the National Psychosis Service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, which takes referrals from all over England.
Professor Peter McGuffin
is a professor of psychiatric genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He also works in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's Affective Disorders Unit.
Professor Philip McGuire
is a professor of psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He also works as a consultant psychiatrist for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Raselle Miller
was part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, maintain and develop mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013.
Dr Paul Morrison
is a researcher in the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Sarah Murphy
is advice and information service manager at Rethink Mental Illness. She was a member of mentalhealthcare.org.uk's advisory panel. Previous Rethink Mental Illness representatives on the advisory panel were Sarah Hamilton and Vanessa Pinfold.
Professor Sir Robin Murray
is professor of psychiatric research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Until his retirement in 2009, he also worked on the National Psychosis Unit at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust as a consultant psychiatrist, caring for people referred from across the UK. In 2012, he was chair of Rethink Mental Illness' Schizophrenia Commission.
Dr Juliana Onwumere
is a consultant clinical psychologist working at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She also carries out research in the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London. Her research focuses on family therapy and supporting care-givers of people with psychosis.
Professor Carmine Pariante
is professor of biological psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), King’s College London, and a consultant perinatal psychiatrist in South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Pariante studies the role of stress hormones in the development of mental health problems. His research focuses on depression, first-episode psychosis and psychiatric problems during pregnancy.
Dr Emmanuelle Peters
is the director of the Psychological Interventions Clinic for oUtpatients with Psychosis (PICuP), an award-winning service run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust that offers cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis. She is also a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Claire Price
is a chartered occupational psychologist. She has worked at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) since 2004 and was responsible for setting up and developing vocational services in the London borough of Southwark. She is currently employment and social inclusion manager at SLaM and is involved in several initiatives to help people with mental health problems access employment, education, training and volunteering opportunities.
Gabrielle Richards
is the professional head of occupational therapy and lead for social inclusion at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM), and a fellow of the College of Occupational Therapists. She has worked in mental health for the majority of her career, working with older adults, on hospital wards and in community-based teams.
Dr Sukhi Shergill
is a researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, and a consultant psychiatrist in the National Psychosis Service at Bethlem Royal Hospital, run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. People who have treatment-resistant psychosis are referred here from all over the UK. Much of his research uses neuroimaging to understand more about the brain mechanisms involved in the symptoms of psychosis. The aim is to develop new, effective treatments for the large number of people who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia who do not respond to antipsychotic medication.
David Singer
works for the London Borough of Lambeth in south London as self-directed support lead, Lambeth Mental Health. He has been leading the personalisation agenda in Lambeth mental health services since 2010 and is involved in many personalisation, co-production and transformation initiatives.
Professor Mike Slade
is professor of health services research at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and a consultant clinical psychologist, working in services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He runs a programme of research about recovery and is investigating ways of changing mental health services so they better support individual people’s goals and aspirations. Further information on his research programme is at researchintorecovery.com.
Jane Smith
is a writer who is part of the Inside Out/Novat Communication team commissioned by the Institute of Psychiatry's Department of Psychology to rebuild, develop and maintain mentalhealthcare.org.uk until April 2013.
Nikki Smith
qualified as a social worker and works in one of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust's community-based mental health team specialising in supporting people who are experiencing psychosis for the first time, or who have recently become unwell. He has previously worked in social care services for people with learning disabilities, people with physical disabilities and people with mental health problems. He qualified as an approved mental health professional in 2008.
Professor David Taylor
is director of pharmacy and pathology at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and professor of psychopharmacology at King’s College London. He is the lead author of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, used by pharmacists and doctors around the English-speaking world.
Professor Graham Thornicroft
is professor of community psychiatry and formerly head of the Health Service and Population Research Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also a consultant psychiatrist working in services run by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. His research includes studies about the extent of discrimination faced by people with mental health problems around the world, and developing ways to combat stigma.
Rachel Waddingham
is the manager of Mind in Camden's London Hearing Voices Project. The Project works across London, developing innovative services for people who hear voices, see visions or have other unusual experiences. This includes Voice Collective, a service for children and young people who hear voices or see visions. The service provides peer support groups, creative workshops, one-to-one support, works in schools and offers support to parents/carers. Rachel is a trustee of the National Hearing Voices Network and UK branch of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. She is a member of Intervoice's International Research Committee. She has lived experience of hearing voices, seeing visions and psychosis and uses these experiences to inform her work.
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