Clinical Consultant Psychiatrist UK 1995, Special care/neuropsychiatry (Middlesbrough); gen adult (Sunderland); neuropsychiatry (Billingham); criminal & civil medicolegal, occupational 1995 to 2015 (Newcastle Nuffield). Founding Medical Director Middleton St George Hospital. From 2015, academic work in medical humanities. 2018-21 Medical Member, Mental Health Tribunal Police Surgeon 1988-1995 Visiting Fellow Uni of Teesside 1995-1998 Honorary Senior Research Fellow Uni of Durham 1996-1999 Visiting Professor Uni of Sunderland School of Sciences 1998-2005 Honorary Professor of Psychiatry, voluntary, Chiang Mai Uni Medical School, 2006 to date in 2023 2019 ran Thai courses on Occupational Psychiatry, MH Law, Capacity & Review Editing Short sabbatical 2016: Professor College of Music, Faculty of Arts, Uni of Mahasarakham Current voluntary review editor neuropsychiatric diagnostics, psychotherapy & pharmacology; music therapy & med humanities £1.8 million research grant income in full time clinical jobs. I have never taken payment for medical research Over 200 publications & international conference presentations, never in a salaried academic post Research: led first project to show brain function changes on neuroimaging with psychotherapy for depression. European Principal Investigator: 1) Largest prospective suicide prevention study, 1000 patients 'InterSePT' 2) Antipsychotic clinical trials including first depot atypical. Author, 2 lead papers in Archives of General Psychiatry. 2067+ citations for top 2 papers, 2740+ total citations Awards: George Henderson Scholarship Medical History 1982; Porsche Neuropsychiatry Scholarship 1985; NHS-UK Hospital Doctor Award Psychiatrist of the Year 1998; etc. Semi-pro Flautist 1978 to date, solo broadcasts BBC Radio 3, ITV. Science radio and TV broadcasts UK, Europe and USA Humanities research papers interfaces of medicine, ethics, arts and Asia, inc: Mozart, Asia and the flute, Portrait Mozart's patron Dr Dejean, Psychology musical women in Regency portraits, Kirkleatham Hospital & enlightenment, Pathology in Zurbarán’s Jewish & Christian figures, Siamese Army in WW1 & Spanish Flu, Neuroscience of the Enlightenment, Ophthalmology in Regency China, A 1920's surgeon, Psychology & Sutton Hoo Purse Lid, etc. Supervised PhDs pharmacology, neuroimaging, psychotherapy, music therapy See Hektoen International for papers Listings: Who's Who in the World, Debrett's People of Today Professional public speaking. Feedback: "Very funny", "superb", "really interesting"
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