Professor Allan Young

Allan H Young, MB, ChB, MPhil, PhD, FRCP (Edin), FRCPC, FRCPsych

Allan Young is Chair of Mood Disorders and Director of the Centre for Affective Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, where he is also Head of School for Academic Psychiatry. The School of Academic Psychiatry is second in the world rankings for psychiatry.  He is the clinical academic lead in the Psychological Medicine Clinical Academic Group in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, and also Consultant Psychiatrist and Head of the Affective Disorders Service.

Professor Young’s research interests focus on the cause and treatments for severe psychiatric illnesses, particularly mood disorders. He has over 700 peer-reviewed publications, including several books about psychopharmacology and affective disorders. He is editor of the Journal of Psychopharmacology and deputy editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry (Open). His H-index is 126 with over 88,000 citations of his papers.

Professor Young is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher: ranking in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index. Professor Young’s current grant funding exceeds £40 million. He is a past President of the International Society for Affective Disorders and the British Association of Psychopharmacology and Inaugural Chair of the RCPsych Special Committee for Psychopharmacology. He is a trustee of the Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU), which is internationally respected for its work in Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacoepidemiology, Risk Management and Training Services.