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Course Organisers
Jane Boydell MBBS, MRCP, MRCPsych, MA, MSc, PhD
Dr Boydell is the Course Leader for the MSc in Psychiatric Research and based within the Department of Psychosis where she is a clinical lecturer. Dr Boydell is also a Consultant Psychiatrist and runs an inpatient ward at the Bethlem Hospital. Our clinical placement scheme is run by and supervised by Dr Boydell. Her research interests include the investigation of social factors in the development of psychosis and she currently leads a project investigating the influence of social cohesion on the development of psychosis.
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Muriel Walshe, PhD
Dr Walshe is the Deputy Course leader for the MSc in Psychiatric Research and co-organises the programme with Dr Boydell. She is also a lecturer in the Department Psychosis Studies. Her research interests include the investigation early life risk factors for schizophrenia. Dr Walshe is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and an honorary psychotherapist in the Adult and Perinatal Sections of the Psychotherapy Department at the Maudsley Hospital. Dr Walshe is currently on extended leave from her post.
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Eugenia Kravariti BA, MA, MSc, PhD
Dr Eugenia Kravariti is co-organiser of the MSc in Psychiatric Research. She is a lecturer and Research Psychologist with a special interest in the neuropsychology of psychosis. Her research activities have focused on cognitive, epidemiological and genetic aspects of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Linda Daley
Linda Daley is the course administrator for the MSc in Psychiatric Research and the Mental Health Services and Population Research.
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Module Leaders
Sarah Byford BSc, MSc, PhD
Dr Byford, module leader for Mental Health Economic Evaluation, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Health Services and Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. She has extensive expertise in the economic evaluation of mental health services and a particular interest in the methods of clinical and economic evaluation of complex interventions, including services for children and adolescents.
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David Collier, PhD
Professor Collier, module leader for Psychiatric Genetics, is Professor of Neuropsychiatric Genetics at the Institute of Psychiatry. His research interests are in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric research, including molecular genetics, bioinformatics, analysis of psychosocial risk factors and gene-environment interaction. His research focuses on the major psychoses schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
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Michael Dewey, PhD
Professor Dewey, module leader for Statistical Methods in Psychiatric Epidemiology, is senior lecturer in the Section of Epidemiology at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is currently involved in several large studies: the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study CFAS, the Eurodep collaboration, the 10/66 study of dementia in developing countries, the SHARE project, and the C--MaMiE study (Child health, growth and development in relation to Maternal Mental disorder in Ethiopia) a population--based cohort.
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Cleusa Ferri, PhD
Dr Ferri, module leader for Measurement in Mental Health Services Research, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Health Services and Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. After working as a clinical academic (psychiatrist) studying the public health aspects of addiction in Brazil, Dr Ferri resumed her academic career at the Institute of Psychiatry. Her main areas of interest are: ageing and dementia, women’s mental health and public health aspects of alcohol and drug consumption.
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Craig Morgan BA, MSc, PhD
Dr Morgan, module leader for Social Psychiatry, is a MRC Research Fellow and non-clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard University. Dr Morgan is currently engaged in research as part of an MRC funded study of the causes and outcomes of first onset psychosis, the AESOP (Aetiology and Ethnicity in Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses) study.
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Joanna Murray
Joanna Murray, module leader for Qualitative Research Methods, is a senior lecturer in Health Services and Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. Her research interests include the development and application of qualitative research methodologies, carer research, the impact of dementia on carers, inventions to improve the quality of life for carers.
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Carmine Pariante MD, MRCPsych, PhD
Dr Pariante, module leader for Brain-Behaviour Interface, is Head of the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory (SPI-Lab) and Section, in the Division of Psychological Medicine. His research interests include the roles of glucocorticoid hormones and proinflammatory cytokines in the biological effects of stress, in the pathogenesis of depression and in the molecular mechanism of antidepressant drugs.
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Paul Allen, PhD
Dr Allen, module leader for Neuroimaging, is a lecturer in the Department of Psychosis Studies. His research interests include Neurocognition in individuals at high risk of developing psychotic illnesses. This work involves people with an ‘At Risk Mental State’, and the use of cognitive psychological and neuroimaging techniques, with a particular focus on memory function. He is also involved in Pharmacological fMRI. Studies which combine functional neuroimaging with a pharmacological challenge, which provide a means of examining the influence of neurotransmitters such as 5HT and cannabinoids on cognitive and emotional processing.
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Key Lecturers
Professor Sir Robin Murray MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci, FRS
Sir Robin Murray is Professor of Psychiatric Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London; and consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His research focuses on finding the causes of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and developing better treatments for these disorders. Sir Robin teaches on the programme.
James Maccabe MRCPsych, PhD
Dr MacCabe is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychosis Studies and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist on the National Psychosis Unit, Bethlem Hospital. After a BSc in Psychology, Dr MacCabe qualified in medicine at the University of London in 1995 and completed his basic and higher specialist training in Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital. During his clinical training, he conducted research under the supervision of Professors Robin Murray, Anthony David and Pak Sham. He obtained a joint MRC/Department of Health Special Training Fellowship in Health of the population research in 2004, in collaboration with the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He obtained an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2006 and a PhD in psychiatry in 2008.
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Avi Reichenberg, PhD
Dr Reichenberg is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychosis Studies. His research focuses on understanding the causes of two disorders: schizophrenia and autism. His research approach involves the combination of epidemiological investigations of risk factors of these disorders, with more specific clinical neuropsychological assessments of patients and their family members in an attempt to identify potential markers of disease liability which are then applied to genetic studies.
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Rob Stewart, PhD
Dr Stewart is a Reader and Head of Section of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Services and Population Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. His research interests include the relationship between vascular risk factors and dementia / depression; mental health in older African-Caribbean populations; the relationship between subjective and objective cognitive function; age-associated changes in affective symptoms; alcoholism in older populations; ethnicity and late-life psychosis.
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Personal Tutors
Dr Demjaha is a personal tutor on the MSc in Psychiatric Research. Dr Demjaha is a Clinical Research Fellow in the the Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry. Read More...
Christopher Chaddock
Dr Chaddock is a personal tutor on the MSc in Psychiatric Research. Dr Chaddock is a research fellow in the Department of Psychosis Studies. Read More...
Anirban Dutt
Dr Dutt is a personal tutor on the MSc in Psychiatric Research. Dr Dutt is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Psychosis Studies. Read More...
Alessandra Paparelli
Alessandra Paparelli is a personal tutor on the MSc in Psychiatric Research. Dr Paparelli is a researcher and PhD student in the Department of Psychosis Studies. Read More...
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