The 10 winners of the second annual RCPsych
Awards have been announced at a prestigious ceremony at the Royal
Society of Medicine.
The awards mark the highest level of
achievement within psychiatry, and are designed to recognise and
reward excellent practice in the field of mental health.
The winners of the RCPsych Awards 2010
are:
- Core Psychiatric Trainee of the Year –
Dr Amanda Deren-Jones
- Advanced Psychiatric Trainee of the Year –
Dr Sharon Smith
- Psychiatric Academic of the Year –
Professor John Geddes
- Public Educator of the Year – Dr Max
Pemberton
- Specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services Provider of the Year – Flintshire Early
Intervention & Prevention Team and Flintshire Child &
Adolescent Team
- Mental Health Services Provider of the Year –
South Staffordshire & Shropshire Healthcare NHS
Foundation Trust
- Psychiatric Team of the Year –
Intensive Home Treatment Team, NHS Lothian
- Medical Manager/Leader of the Year –
Dr John Simpson
- Psychiatrist of the Year – Dr Michele
Hampson
- Lifetime Achievement Award –
Professor Sir Michael Rutter
The awards ceremony, held on 16 November, was
hosted by journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves.
Professor Dinesh Bhugra, President of the
Royal College of Psychiatrists, said: “Through the RCPsych Awards,
we bring national recognition to those individuals and services who
are delivering the highest quality care for service users and
carers, and who are advancing our understanding of mental illness
through research and public education. Once again we were
overwhelmed by the quality of entries, and our judging panels had
an extremely tough job. On behalf of the College, I offer my
heartfelt congratulations to the overall winners as well as the
outstanding individuals and brilliant teams who were shortlisted
for each category.”
Professor Bhugra paid a special tribute to
Professor Sir Michael Rutter, who was presented with the 2010
RCPsych Lifetime Achievement Award. Professor Bhugra said: “Sir
Michael has quite simply been one of the most influential
psychiatric scientists of his generation. After qualifying in
medicine, he embarked on a programme of research and clinical
development that transformed child and adolescent psychiatry and,
in 1973, became the country’s first ever professor of child and
adolescent psychiatry. Sir Michael is a richly deserving winner of
the RCPsych Lifetime Achievement Award 2010.”
Nominations for the RCPsych Awards 2011 will
open in January.
The RCPsych Awards 2010 were generously sponsored by:
- Priory Group
- St Andrew’s Healthcare
- Cambridge University
Press
- Oxford University Press
- Wiley-Blackwell
A list of all the individuals
and teams who were shortlisted in each category of the RCPsych
Awards 2010 is available here.
For further information, please
contact:
Liz Leicester
or Deborah Hart in the Communications
Department.
Telephone: 020 7235 2351 Extensions. 6298 or 6127