Psychiatry Research Trust
Meet our Trustees
The Trustees have been selected to provide a broad background of expertise in the fields of financial management, academic, psychiatric and neurological research and fundraising.
Prof.
Tom Craig
Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He is the immediate past president of World Association of Social Psychiatry.
Prof.
Dinesh Bhugra CBE
Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. President-Elect of the British Medical Association President of the British Medical Association (2018-2019). Previously, between 2003-2008 he was the Dean and then the President between 2008-2011 of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK.
Prof.
Peter Lantos
After working as a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Neuropathology at The Middlesex Hospital Medical School, Professor Lantos joined the Institute of Psychiatry as Professor of Neuropathology and was an Honorary Consultant at The Maudsley Hospital and King's College Hospital until his retirement in 2002. From 1995 to 2002 he was also Director of Neuropathology Services at King's Neuroscience Centre. Professor Lantos is a
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Prof.
Elizabeth Kuipers OBE
Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology from 2016, and until 2012, Head of the Department of Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She was Chair of the update for the Schizophrenia Guidelines 2009, and the 2014 update for Psychosis and Schizophrenia Guidelines, National Institute for Health and Care
Excellence (NICE). In 2010 she received the MB Shapiro award from the Division of Clinical Psychology of the BPS, for 'eminence' in her profession. In 2013 Professor Kuipers received the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
Lifetime Achievement award as well as a
Lifetime achievement award from the
Professional Practice Board of the BPS.
Mr.
Ben Williams
Mr Williams is a fund manager at Arcus Investment Ltd. He has previously held positions at GAM and Royal Sun Alliance. GAM is a global asset management company listed on the Swiss stock exchange and he is currently an Investment Director. Prior to working for GAM, Mr Williams was a Fund Manager at Royal Sun Alliance Investment Management.
Prof.
Stephen Scott CBE
Professor in Child Health and Behaviour at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital where he is head of the National Antisocial Behaviour Clinic and the National Adoption and Fostering Clinic. He is Director of the National Academy for Parenting Research and Chair of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence's Guideline Development Group on
Conduct Disorders. In 2017 Professor Scott made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Science.
Mr.
Mike Stewart
Mike Stewart is a Portfolio Manager for Brevan Howard. He was previously Chief Investment Officer of WHARD Stewart, an asset management firm that he founded in 2012. He had previously worked for JPMorgan for 17 years. He held positions including co-Head of the Investment Bank's Emerging Markets business and Global Head of Proprietary Trading. His final role involved setting up a new alternative investment business for JPMorgan Asset Management.
Prof.
Paola Dazzan
Professor of Neurobiology of Psychosis and Vice Dean International at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London. She is an active member of the Schizophrenia International Research Society of which she was elected Secretary in 2018.
Dr.
Khalida Ismail
Khalida Ismail is Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, Dept of Psychological Medicine King's College London, and Co-Director, Institute of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Obesity, King's Health Partners (KHP). She lead: the Diabetes, Psychiatry and Psychology unit which is one of the largest in this field in the world. Description goes here.
Prof.
George Szmukler
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Society at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London, and was previously a consultant psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. He was Dean of the Institute of Psychiatry (2001-2006), Medical Director of the Maudsley and Bethlem NHS Trust, later the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (1997-2001), and a Visiting Professor in the BIOS Centre, Department of Sociology, at the London School of Economics (2005-2013). He was also an Associate Director of the National Institute of Health Research - Mental Health Research Network with special responsibility for patient and public involvement in research (2007-
2015) and chair of the Special Committee on Human Rights of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK (2017-2022).