Artemis Igoumenou
Senior Clinical Lecturer, University College London, and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist North London NHS Foundation Trust
Artemis Igoumenou is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the UCL Department of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
She gained her undergraduate nursing degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, her MSc in Mental Health, her undergraduate medical degree and her PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
She started her core psychiatry training in Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust and completed it in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS trust. She completed her advanced psychiatry training in Oxford and obtained her CCT in General Adult Psychiatry and Psychiatry of Addictions (with endorsement equivalent in Rehabilitation Psychiatry).
She then became an NIHR funded Clinical Lecturer on the North London/Queen Mary University training scheme, obtaining her CCT in Forensic Psychiatry.
Her research interests include the assessment and management of risk (violence, self-harm), and the mental and physical wellbeing of individuals with complex mental health diagnoses (including those who have offended and reside in secure hospitals or prisons). Her research has focused on specific populations such as offender and rehabilitation psychiatry populations, but also general adult psychiatry populations.