A biog of mine follows below which may be of interest and web links to various web resources including my latest BBC Radio 4 programmes and my psychologytoday blog, city am blog, inews blog, projectsyndicate column, times Higher Education articles, kindle blog and my huff post column - I am usually at 10 Harley Street London - my secretary normally sends this out to people coming to see me so they have some background information on me. My secretary Sheila Banks is on 07912011115. Her email is sheilambanks@gmail.com and I can copy her into this email.The first link is to my Ted talk which has had over 3.5 million views. The Psychology Today blog has had over 1.5 million views. The podcasts have had over 30 000 downloads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E46oWB4V0s&t=18s www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/students-narcissism-trumps-their-work-ethic http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b092fwzr https://inews.co.uk/opinion/how-to-flirt-in-the-age-of-metoo/ http://www.cityam.com/profile/raj.persaud https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/raj-persaud-md-and-peter-bruggen-md www.project-syndicate.org/columnist/raj-persaud http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Raj-Persaud-Latest-Users/dp/B0082XNF40 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07m7lmm http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-raj-persaud/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hec3I_NI3FU Dr Raj Persaud Dr Raj Persaud is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has worked as a Consultant at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley NHS Hospitals in London from 1994-2008, and as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. These are the premiere research and training institutions for Psychiatry in Europe. He was also Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA and Institute of Neurology at Queens Square. His training in psychiatry since leaving UCH medical school in1986 was entirely at the Institute of Psychiatry and the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. Unusually for a psychiatrist, he also holds a degree in psychology, obtained with First Class Honours, and 8 other degrees and diplomas including a Masters in Statistics. He was awarded the Royal College of Psychiatrists Research Prize and Medal as well as The Maudsley Hospitals own Denis Hill Prize, and The Osler Medal. The Royal College of Psychiatrists recently also awarded him the Morris Markowe Prize. In 2004 he was appointed Visiting Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry at Gresham College, and he was asked by the Royal College of Psychiatrists to edit its first book aimed at educating the public on psychology and psychiatry. The Mind: A Users Guide was published in 2007 and reached the top ten best-seller list. All of his 5 previous books have been top ten best-sellers. He has contributed a chapter to the Royal Colleges latest book - The Female Mind - A Users Guide. His writing is in several established textbooks, including the Oxford Companion to the Mind and he has contributed a chapter in the latest comprehensive textbook of psychiatry for trainees: Psychiatry – An Evidence Based Text. He has approaching 100 publications in Journals such as The British Journal of Psychiatry, British Medical Journal and The Lancet. He was elected Fellow of University College London and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is patron or supporter of numerous mental health charities including OCD-UK, The Manic Depression Fellowship, Association of Post-Natal Illness, Childline, Action Aid and The Samaritans. Distinguished annual lectures include the Florence Nightingale Lecture, The Whittington Oration, The Annual Oration of the Medical Society of London and the keynote lecture of the annual conference for National Institute of Clinical Excellence. He also gave the lecture commemorating the 50th anniversary of The Samaritans. He has chaired the judging panel for the International Aventis Science Book Prize, which awarded Stephen Hawking the prize that year for his book The Universe in a Nutshell, and also judged the annual UK Broadcast Medical Journalism Awards, and the Health Service Journal Awards. The Independent on Sunday Newspaper conducted a poll amongst members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Institute of Psychiatry to discover who were the top ten psychiatrists in the UK as rated by fellow psychiatrists. Dr Raj Persaud was the youngest doctor to make it into this esteemed list. The Times Newspaper also placed him as one of the Top Twenty Mental Health Gurus in the world. He is now podcast editor for the Royal College of Psychiatrists and also now has a free app on iTunes and google play store entitled Raj Persaud in conversation, which includes a lot of free information on the latest research findings in mental health, plus interviews with top experts from around the world. Download it free from these links https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rajpersaud.android.rajpersaud https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dr-raj-persaud-in-conversation/id927466223?mt=8 Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments