Kathryn Abel

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Kathryn M. Abel
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of Oxford
OccupationPsychiatrist

Kathryn M. Abel is a British psychiatrist specialising clinically in resistant schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. She is co-chair of the Office for Life Sciences and NIHR National Lead for Mental Health Lead. She is also co-chair of the UK government's Mental Health Goal's programme (formerly the Mental Health Mission), with Professor Husseini Manji. Abel is Professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Manchester, where she is director of the university's Centre for Women's Mental Health. She previously served on the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee C between 2008 and 2018. Abel has co-edited three textbooks. She is a fellow of the European Research Council.

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Life

Kathryn M. Abel is a British psychiatrist specialising clinically in resistant schizophrenia and gender-specified service developments. [1] She qualified at the University of Oxford with a MBBS and PhD. [2]

She is co-chair of the Office for Life Sciences and NIHR National Lead for Mental Health Lead. She is also co-chair of the UK government's Mental Health Goal's programme (formerly the Mental Health Mission), with Professor Husseini Manji. [3] A professor of Psychological Medicine at the University of Manchester, she is director of the university's Centre for Women's Mental Health and GM.Digital Research Unit. [3] [4] [5]

She previously served on the Academic Faculty Executive at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Appraisal Committee C between 2008 and 2018. She is a fellow of the European Research Council. [3]

Bibliography

Abel has co-edited academic textbooks, including Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Women (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Comprehensive Women's Mental Health (Cambridge, 2016) [6] and The Female Mind (RCPSYH, 2017). [7] [8]

References

  1. Webber, M. (2011). Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Mental Health Social Work. Post-Qualifying Social Work Practice Series. SAGE Publications. p. 109. ISBN   978-0-85725-427-6 . Retrieved 20 Jul 2023.
  2. "Professor of psychological medicine and director of the Centre for Women's Mental Health, University of Manchester, UK". Flo.health - #1 mobile product for women’s health. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mental Health Goals". UK Government. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  4. "Prof Kathryn Abel MA MBBS FRCP FRCPsych PhD - The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  5. "Kathryn Abel". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  6. "Kathryn M. Abel". GoodReads. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  7. "The Female Mind". Amazon. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  8. Farrell, Helen M. (May 2018). "The Female Mind: A User's Guide". American Journal of Psychiatry. 175 (5): 486–486. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2018.18010063. ISSN   0002-953X.