Mental Health – Contact Details

Theme lead: Associate Professor Ben Underwood

Ben studied natural science at Oxford University and medicine in LondonHe completed his psychiatric training in Cambridge, including a PhD in molecular neurogeneticsHe is currently an associate professor in applied and translational old age psychiatry at the University of Cambridge and honorary consultant psychiatrist at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)His research interests span experimental medicine and clinical trials in dementia and the analysis of big data to enhance dementia care. He is research and development director at CPFT and clinical lead for dementia and neurodegeneration in the East of England for the NIHR RRDN

Contactben.underwood@cpft.nhs.uk

Duncan Astle

Professor of Neuroinformatics and MRC Programme Leader

Contact: da412@cam.ac.uk

Kate Baker

Programme Leader Track, and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics

Contact: kb488@cam.ac.uk

Simon Baron-Cohen

Professor of Developmental Psychopathology Director, Autism Research Centre

Contact: sb205@cam.ac.uk

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor of Psychology

Carol Brayne

Co-Director of Cambridge Public Health; Professor of Public Health Medicine

Edward Bullmore

Deputy Head of the Clinical School

Rudolf Cardinal

Associate professor of clinical informatics; honorary consultant liaison psychiatrist

Tim Dalgleish

MRC Group Leader

Karen Ersche

Professor of Addiction Neuroscience

Sadaf Farooqi

Professor of Metabolism and Medicine

Contact: isf20@cam.ac.uk

Paul Fletcher

Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience

Contact: pcf22@cam.ac.uk

Tamsin Ford

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Michael Inouye

Director of Research

Mark Johnson

Professor of Experimental Psychology & Head of Department of Psychology

Contact: mj492@cam.ac.uk

Peter Jones

Professor of Psychiatry

Contact: pbj21@cam.ac.uk

Stacey Kigar

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Contact: sk2128@cam.ac.uk

Serena Nik-Zainal

Professor of Genomic Medicine and Bioinformatics

Contact: sn206@cam.ac.uk

John O’Brien

Professor of Old Age Psychiatry

David Rowitch

Professor and Head of Paediatrics department

John Suckling

Director of Research in Psychiatric Neuroimaging

Contact: js369@cam.ac.uk

Petra Vertes

Assistant Professor

Contact: pv226@cam.ac.uk

Valerie Voon

Professor of Neuropsychiatry

Contact: vv247@cam.ac.uk

Varun Warrier

Assistant Professor

Simon White

Senior Research Associate

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