Academic psychiatry meets clinical psychiatry

Professor Lynne M Drummond - Honorary Consultant, SW London and St George's NHS Trust and Visiting Professor, University of Hertfordshire

Lynne M Drummond is an expert in OCD and related disorders. She has been a Consultant Psychiatrist with South West London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust since 1985 and was lead clinician for the nationally commissioned service for severe, enduring obsessive-compulsive and body dysmorphic disorders (OCD/BDD).

Now an Honorary Consultant at her former Trust and a Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, she is concentrating on teaching, research and working with public bodies to improve access to treatment. Specialising particularly in CBT, she has published over 120 articles and chapters in the fields of CBT, OCD, hoarding, anxiety disorders, exercise and mental health and is the author of five best-selling books on CBT as well as OCD and Hoarding.

Sir Robin Murray - Professor of Psychiatric Research, King’s College

Robin Murray is Professor of Psychiatric Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, and has spent most of his working life there. He was one of the first to suggest that schizophrenia was in part a neurodevelopmental disorder, and he and his colleagues have contributed to the understanding that environmental factors such as obstetric events, drug abuse and social adversity dysregulate striatal dopamine and thus increase the risk of psychosis. He also cares for people with psychosis at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He has written over 1,000 articles, not all of them boring!  He is the most frequently cited psychosis researcher outside the USA, has supervised 83 PhDs and 13 MD Theses, and 45 of his students have become full professors. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010 and received a knighthood in 2011.

Professor Rupert McShane - Professor and Consultant Psychiatrist

Clinically, Rupert is the lead for the Oxfordshire ECT and ketamine services and runs a memory clinic. His main focus includes developing policy and monitoring arrangements for rapidly acting antidepressants such as ketamine.  He leads an international online journal club and chairs the steering committee of an international academic conference on Ketamine and Related Compounds for Psychiatric Disorders. Rupert works on ways of optimising the effects of ketamine and is a national CI and local PI for trials of rapidly acting antidepressants. Following an NIHR-funded case series exploring the use of repeated ketamine for resistant depression, they have now treated over 300 patients and are continuing to refine treatment protocols.  He chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists Committee on ECT and related treatments.  

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