Dr Claire Jones
Presidential Scholar for Physical Health
Claire is an ST5 trainee in general adult psychiatry working in in Southwest London.
Claire is one of the current Physical Health Scholars. She has had a varied career pathway to becoming a psychiatrist including for many years working as an anaesthetist in acute trusts. During her time in psychiatry Claire has been shocked and saddened in witnessing at first hand the disparity in morbidity and mortality that is seen in our patients. This has led her during her psychiatric training to develop an interest in how she can help the teams that she has been working with improve the physical health of their patients.
She is using her time as a Physical Health Scholar to contribute to joint projects including writing the physical health position statement for the Royal Collage, ongoing work looking at preventing antipsychotic weight gain and input into the development of guidelines for treatment with clozapine.