Rajendra 'Raj' Persaud is an English consultant psychiatrist,broadcaster and author of books about psychiatry. He is known for raising public awareness of psychiatric and mental health issues in the general media,has published five books and received numerous awards.
Abdol Hamid Ghodse CBE was an academic in the field of substance abuse and addiction.
The Cardiff University School of Medicine is the medical school of Cardiff University and is located in Cardiff,Wales,UK. Founded in 1893 as part of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire,it is the oldest of the three medical schools in Wales.
Eve Cordelia Johnstone is a Scottish physician,clinical researcher,psychiatrist and academic. Her main research area is in the field of schizophrenia and psychotic illness. She is emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Honorary Assistant Principal for Mental Health Research Development and Public Understanding of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. She is best known for her 1976 groundbreaking study that showed brain abnormalities in schizophrenic patients compared to a control group.
Liaison psychiatry,also known as consultative psychiatry or consultation-liaison psychiatry,is the branch of psychiatry that specialises in the interface between general medicine/pediatrics and psychiatry,usually taking place in a hospital or medical setting. The role of the consultation-liaison psychiatrist is to see patients with comorbid medical conditions at the request of the treating medical or surgical consultant or team. Consultation-liaison psychiatry has areas of overlap with other disciplines including psychosomatic medicine,health psychology and neuropsychiatry.
Dame Margaret June Clark,FAANFLSW is Professor Emeritus of Community Nursing,at Swansea University in Wales.
Sir David Keith Peters is a retired Welsh physician and academic. He was Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge from 1987 to 2005,where he was also head of the School of Clinical Medicine.
Carola Blitzman Eisenberg was an Argentine-American psychiatrist who became the first woman to hold the position of Dean of Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1978 to 1990,she was the dean of student affairs at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She was a long-time lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at HMS. She was also both a founding member of Physicians for Human Rights and an honorary psychiatrist with the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After retiring,she was involved in human rights work through Physicians for Human Rights,the Institute for Healthcare Improvement,and elsewhere. She turned 100 in September 2017 and died in Lincoln,Massachusetts,in March 2021 at the age of 103.
Nick (Nicandros) Bouras is a Greek professor (emeritus) of psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry,Psychology and Neuroscience King's College London,United Kingdom. and Programme Director of Maudsley International that promotes developments in mental health around the world.
Swansea University Medical School is a medical school on Swansea University's Singleton campus. It is linked to additional teaching centres located throughout South and West Wales,including Cefn Coed Hospital,Singleton Hospital and Morriston Hospital in Swansea,Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli,Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest and Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth. The Medical School also has a network of primary care teaching centers.
Philip Manley Boyce is an Australian psychiatrist. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sydney and an Emeritus Consultant in Psychiatry at Westmead Hospital. He was a professor of psychiatry and head of discipline of psychiatry at the University of Sydney,and head of Perinatal Psychiatry Clinical Research Unit at Westmead Hospital. He has published more than 350 articles,and frequently contributes to psychiatric textbooks. He served as associate editor of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. He has a long clinical and research interest in anxiety disorders,mood disorders,psychosomatic disorders,and perinatal psychiatry. He has also taken leadership roles in the profession as president of the RANZCP and the international Marcésociety,in the development of clinical practice guidelines,and in the development of a competency-based training program for the college.
Felice Lieh–Mak is a Hong Kong physician,psychiatrist,academician,editor and retired civil servant,and emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lal Bhugra is a professor of mental health and diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. He is an honorary consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and is former president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Bhugra was the president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) between 2014 and 2017 and the President of the British Medical Association in 2018-2019.
Harvey John Tompkins,M.D. (1906–1983) was an American physician,a psychiatrist,whose professional life was in public service.
Ronan Lyons is the inaugural Clinical Professor of Public Health at Swansea University Medical School. He is Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR),Director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through E-records Research (CIPHER),Co-director of the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) system,co-director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer),and co-director of the Administrative Data Research Centre Wales.
Eluned "Lyn" Woodford-Williams was a British geriatrician. As the leader of the geriatric unit at Sunderland,she was a pioneer in geriatric medicine and geriatric psychiatry.
Ann John,FLSW is a Professor in Public Health and Psychiatry at the Swansea University Medical School. She chairs the National Advisory Group to Welsh Government on the prevention of suicide and self-harm. She is an honorary consultant in Public Health medicine for Public Health Wales and Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation. In 2019,she was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Anita Thapar is a Welsh child psychiatrist who is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on risk factors for ADHD and major depression in children. She was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1995,and of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Learned Society of Wales in 2011. In 2017,she received the Frances Hoggan Medal from the Learned Society of Wales and was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE),both in recognition of her research in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Wendy Katherine Burn is a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry. She was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2017 to 2020.
Farah Bhatti FRCS FLSW is a British cardiac surgeon who is an honorary professor at the Swansea University Medical School. She serves as Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Women in Surgery Forum. She was appointed an Order of the British Empire in 2020 for services to diversity in the National Health Service in Wales.
