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Eric Taylor MA MB FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Eric Taylor initially trained in Cambridge, England, Cambridge, Mass and London University. He is now Head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of the Institute of Psychiatry in Kings College London. His personal interests are in childhood hyperkinesis, psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatric conditions in childhood. His current research work is partly funded by an MRC program grant on the developmental psychopathology of hyperactivity and this takes him (usually in collaboration) into neuroimaging and experimental psychological studies, a large twin study, molecular genetics, clinical nosography, longitudinal epidemiology, treatment trials and community surveys of needs for treatment. He runs an outpatient team at the Maudsley hospital (where he is also Lead Clinician) and does clinical work at Kings College Hospital and the National Centre for Young People with epilepsy - with special interests in hyperactivity and other neuropsychiatric conditions. He is past Editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Publications include books for parents and professionals on hyperactivity; more than 100 scientific papers on hyperactivity, psychopharmacology, neuropsychiatry and related topics; and (as co-editor with Sir Michael Rutter) the third and fourth editions of the textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Jeremy Turk BSc (hons) MD MBBS FRCPsych FRCPCH DCH

Reader in Developmental Psychiatry

Jeremy Turk studied psychology at University College London and medicine at The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. He trained in paediatrics at St. Charles' Hospital, London, psychiatry at Kings College, Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals, and in child psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health where he held a Clinical Lectureship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. While there he undertook his MD research thesis project on the psychiatric, psychological and behavioural functioning of boys with fragile X syndrome. After completing his training, he was appointed Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, and subsequently Reader in Developmental Psychiatry there. Since 1998 he has been Consultant Psychiatrist to the National Autistic Society Centre for Social and Communication Disorders, and in 2001 was awarded the International Burden Prize for outstanding research in the field of learning disability. He is head of academic child and adolescent mental health at St. George's, University of London, Clinical Team Leader on the Child Mental Health Learning Disability Service, South West London & St. George's NHS Trust, and trustwide Clinical Lead for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services there. Dr Turk is also President of the Royal Society of Medicine Intellectual Disability Forum. His research has focussed on genetically determined causes of intellectual and other developmental disabilities including autistic spectrum disorders, and their characteristic profiles of development and behaviour - so-called Behavioural Phenotypes. He has also lectured, written and published extensively on service provision for children and young people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities who have mental health problems, cognitive-behavioural and pharmacological interventions, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. He is co-author of the standard textbook "Child Psychiatry: A Developmental Approach". His research has been supported by awards from the Wellcome Trust, REMEDI, PPP and the Castang Foundation. He is member of a number of national and international executive and advisory committees including the Fragile X Society, US International Fragile X Foundation, Smith-Magenis Syndrome Foundation, Contact-a-Family, Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities and the National Autistic Society.

Roger Weissman BA MSW (CQSW) MA

Senior Mental Health Social Work

Roger is a qualified social worker with twenty five years of experience, fifteen years within the child mental health services. He currently manages a team of qualified social workers who are members of multi-disciplinary in-patient and outpatient teams located within SLAM's Children and Adolescent Services Directorate. He undertakes his own practice within the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Team and work alongside multi-disciplinary colleagues in assessing and treating families. He is also involved in a range of teaching and training activities, acts as an external examiner and chairs the Programme Committee for the MSc in Mental Health Social Work based at the Institute of Psychiatry.

Steve Williams BSc PhD

Professor of Imaging Sciences

Steve Williams studied Physics at Luton and then for his doctoral studies worked on MRI at the University of Cambridge. He worked at Guy’s Hospital before taking up a senior lectureship in the neuroimaging department of the Institute of Psychiatry. He also leads a small animal MRI research unit at Queen Mary and Westfield Hospital. Since taking up the chair of Imaging Sciences he has spearheaded developments in both structural and functional imaging at the Institute and Kings College. This has recently culminated in a major award from the Wellcome Trust to develop the new neuroimaging sciences centre at the IoP. Steve’s interests focus on the development of advanced imaging techniques to further our understanding of neuropsychiatric disorders. He has collaborated with others at the Institute and elsewhere in imaging studies in autism, and is one of the principal investigators in the new research programme on imaging in individuals with developmental disorders.