Biographies
Professor Jan Scott
Professor of Psychological Medicine, Newcastle University and UPEC Paris:
Jan Scott is a Professor of Psychological Medicine at Newcastle University & at UPEC, Paris. She is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (one of 8 individuals worldwide). Her research focuses on combined treatment strategies (using pharmacotherapy and Cognitive Therapy) in the treatment of individuals with bipolar disorders, and treatment-refractory depressions. She has a particular interest in the development of age appropriate services to meet the needs of adolescents and young adults with early onset bipolar disorders, which is the focus of her current research collaborations with Paris.
Professor Heinz Grunze
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry:
Professor Heinz Grunze qualified for medicine at the University of Aachen, Germany before taking up research fellowships at Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, working in Freiburg, Germany, and later with Prof. McCarley at the Neuroscience lab of Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He was Senior Registrar at the Department of Psychiatry, Universitätsklinik, Freiburg, followed by Consultant and Lecturer in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. Currently, he is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at The Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University, UK and Honorary Consultant for the Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust. His clinical duties are centred around the Regional Affective Disorder Service for the North of Britain.
As an active researcher, Professor Grunze has published numerous journal articles, reviews, books and book chapters on his main areas of interests, which include the neurobiology and treatment of bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia.
Professor Grunze is a member of several national and international neuroscience and psychopharmacology associations, and has received several grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the UK National Institute for Mental Health Research and a Stanley Foundation International Center Award for clinical studies in bipolar disorder.
Continued…
Biographies (continued)
Dr Daniel Smith
Clinical Senior Lecturer:
Dr Smith is a clinical senior lecturer in psychiatry at Cardiff University. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and trained in psychiatry in Glasgow. He completed a research training fellowship in Edinburgh in 2006 and recently finished a 3-year NIHR postdoctoral fellowship at Cardiff University during which he tested approaches to improving the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, as well as developing and testing novel psychoeducational interventions for bipolar disorder. His current research is focused on the clinical and aetiological overlap between unipolar and bipolar depression and includes epidemiological, genetic and neuroimaging studies in this area. One of his clinical roles is as co-director of the Bipolar Education Programme Cymru, a service delivering psychoeducational interventions to individuals with bipolar disorder across Wales (
Professor Sue Bailey
President RCPsych:
Professor Susan Bailey OBE, FRCPsych, FRSA, MBChB, is Consultant Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist in the Forensic Adolescent Consultation & Treatment Services (FACTS) at Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The focus of her clinical work and research has been assessing the needs and managing the risks presented by and to young people who enter the mental health, social care and youth justice systems nationally and internationally.
Other key focal areas include working with colleagues to develop best treatment interventions and pathways of care; putting human rights into practice as part of international groups; and, through the Royal College of Psychiatrists trying to shape Mental Health Policy to work in real partnership with users and carers.
Prof Bailey took up office as President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in July 2011.
1