Professor Rohit Shankar
Professor of Neuropsychiatry, Peninsula Medical School (Faculty of Health)
Rohit is a professor in neuropsychiatry with University of Plymouth Medical School and director of its Cornwall Intellectual Disability Equitable Research (CIDER) unit.
He is the Associate Dean for Academic Training for the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Awarded a MBE (2018) for services to the learning disability community he has national/international awards including the RCPsych team of the year for digital innovation (2023) and intellectual disability (2021), BMJ awards for mental health (2020), Education (2019) Neurology (2016), Innovation (highly commended-2017), ILAE Epileptic Disorders best paper (2017) and Epilepsy Foundation America SUDEP Challenge (2016).
He has over 300 index-linked publications/book-chapters and has led/contributed to various national reports.
He is a consultant in developmental neuropsychiatry, Clinical Director at Cornwall Partnership NHS FT and Deputy Chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty for Intellectual Disability.
His interests are in co-producing translational clinical research in neurodevelopmental/neuropsychiatric disorders, clinical risk management, and use of implementation science for health technology.