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2021 election results
The College ran a host of different elections in 2020/2021, which closed on Wednesday 13 January.
These included the Dean and Treasurer elections as well as elections for Devolved Nations, Divisions, Faculties, Psychiatric Trainees Committee and Special Interest Groups.
Elected candidates begin their terms of office at the College's AGM in the summer.
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Linda Findlay
Vice-Chair
- Dr Jane Morris
Financial Officer
- Dr Pradeep Pasupuleti
Devolved Council Member
- Dr June Halford
- Dr Lovely Rajan
- Dr Andrew Robinson
- Dr Andrea Williams
Elected by ballot:
Vice-Chair
- Dr Stephen Moore
Voter turnout: 33.9%
Full list of candidates: Dr Adrian East, Dr Stephen Moore.
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Kallur Suresh
Vice-Chair
- Dr Anna Conway Morris
Elected by ballot:
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Praveen Kumar Gandamaneni
- Dr Sepehr Hafizi
Voter turnout: 30.6%
Full list of candidates: Dr Manal El-Maraghy, Dr Praveen Kumar Gandamaneni, Dr Sepehr Hafizi, Dr Ashish Pathak.
Elected without ballot:
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Jean O'Hara
Elected by ballot:
Chair
- Professor Rafey Faruqui
Voter turnout: 21.6%
Full list of candidates: Dr Hasanen Al-Taiar, Professor Rafey Faruqui.
Elected without ballot:
Financial Officer
- Professor Catherine Kinane
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Sharada Deepak
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Shahid Latif
Vice-Chair
- Dr Rais Ahmed
ETC Representative
- Dr Asad Malik
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Navjot Ahluwalia
- Dr Madeleine Bonney-Helliwell
- Dr Kamila Haider
- Dr Farina Tahira
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Muhammad Gul
Vice-Chair
- Dr Suchithra Thirulokachandran
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Emma Lambert
- Dr Hassan Mahmood
- Dr Imran Piracha
European Division
Chair
- Dr Maria Angela Carballedo Aenlle (elected without ballot)
Middle Eastern Division
Chair
- Dr Ovais Wadoo (elected by ballot)
Voter turnout: 40.5%.
Full list of candidates: Dr Danilo Arnone, Dr Ovais Wadoo.
Pan-American Division
Chair
- Professor Kenneth Kaufman (elected without ballot)
South Asian Division
Chair
- Dr T Manoj Kumar (elected by ballot)
Voter turnout: 28.2%.
Full list of candidates: Professor Rakesh Kumar Chadda, Dr T Manoj Kumar.
Elected by ballot:
Chair
- Dr Elaine Lockhart
Voter turnout: 19.5%
Full list of candidates: Dr Jon Goldin, Dr Elaine Lockhart.
Vice-Chair
- Professor Alka S Ahuja
Voter turnout: 19.5%
Full list of candidates: Professor Alka S Ahuja, Dr Louise Theodosiou.
Elected without ballot:
Financial Officer
- Dr Guy Northover
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Omolade Abuah
- Dr Ashley Liew
- Dr Sami Timimi
Elected without ballot:
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Helen Bould
- Dr Victoria Chapman
- Dr Lauren Gavaghan
- Dr Ali Ibrahim
- Dr Samantha Scholtz
- Dr Jacinta Tan
Elected by ballot:
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Tim Alnuamaani
- Dr Jeya Balakrishna
- Dr Mosun Fapohunda
- Dr Joanne Farrow
- Dr Mudasir Firdosi
- Professor Sonia Johnson
- Dr Clare Louise Morgans
- Dr Joan Rutherford
Voter turnout: 22.1%
Full list of candidates: Dr Tim Alnuamaani, Dr Jeya Balakrishna, Dr Ravindra B Belgamwar, Dr Mosun Fapohunda, Dr Joanne Farrow, Dr Mudasir Firdosi, Dr Praveen Kumar Gandamaneni, Dr Maria Ivanov, Professor Sonia Johnson, Dr Ali Mehdi, Dr Shweta Mittal, Dr Clare Louise Morgans, Dr Priyadarshini Natarajan, Dr Lida Panagiotopoulou, Dr Naresh Rasquinha, Dr Joan Rutherford, Dr Simmi Sachdeva-Mohan, Dr Aamer Sajjad, Dr Ranjeet Shah, Dr Zohra Taousi, and Dr Solomon Wong.
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Annabel Price
Vice-Chair
- Dr Alex Thomson
Elected by ballot:
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Chloe Beale
- Dr Sanjukta Das
- Dr Mutaz Hussain
- Dr Isabel McMullen
- Dr Amrit Sachar
- Professor Liz Sampson
- Dr Murray SmithVoter turnout: 23.5%
Full list of candidates: Dr Chloe Beale, Dr Sanjukta Das, Dr Mutaz Hussain, Dr Akhtar Khan, Dr Isabel McMullen, Dr Lida Panagiotopoulou, Dr Amrit Sachar, Professor Liz Sampson, and Dr Murray Smith.
Elected without ballot:
Chair
- Dr Sunil Nodiyal
Vice-Chair
- Dr Asha Praseedom
Financial Officer
- Dr Hemant Bagalkote
Executive Committee Member
- Dr Shahzad Alikhan
- Dr Lucy Carrick
- Dr Thomas Edwards
- Dr Claire Gallagher
- Dr Andrew Molodynski
- Dr Joseph Rodrigues
- Dr Adarsh Shetty
- Dr Neeti Singh
Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry
- Financial Officer: Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury (elected without ballot)
Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry
- Chair: Dr Peter Carpenter (elected without ballot)
- Financial Officer: Dr Raja Mukherjee (elected without ballot)
Philosophy and Psychiatry
- Chair: Dr Anastasios Dimopoulos (elected without ballot)
Financial Officer: Dr Hasanen Al-Taiar (elected without ballot)
Private and Independent Practice
- Chair: Dr Simmi Sachdeva-Mohan (elected without ballot)
Rainbow
- Chair: Dr Pavan Joshi (elected without ballot
Spirituality and Psychiatry
- Chair: Dr Christopher Cook (elected without ballot)
- Financial Officer: Dr Omur Miles (elected without ballot)
Transcultural
- Chair: Dr Fabida Aria (elected without ballot)
- Financial Officer: Dr Praveen Kumar Gandamaneni (elected without ballot)
Volunteering and International Psychiatry
- Chair: Dr Anis Ahmed (elected by ballot)
Voter turnout: 26.4%. Full list of candidates: Dr Anis Ahmed, Dr Ruairi Page.
Elected without ballot:
London Division
- Dr Glori-Louise De Bernier - Member Representative
- Dr Amrita Joottun - PMPT Representative
- Dr Nathan Rouse - PMPT Representative
- Dr Abiram Selladurai - Member Representative
- Dr Michael Tai - PMPT Representative
Northern and Yorkshire Division
- Dr John Moore - Member Representative