Tributes for Lea Milligan 💙 (He/Him) 🌈 CEO of MQ, Chair of Collective Voice & AMRC trustee.

'Lea Milligan was an absolute one-off. A magnificent human being with an extraordinarily generous heart and a brilliant mind.'

'The sector has lost one of its shining lights.'
mqmentalhealth.org/lea-milligan/

We're delighted to announce Prof Mina Fazel is the new Chair of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

A world-leading researcher, Prof Fazel combines a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach with extensive clinical expertise.

Mina Fazel Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

psych.ox.ac.uk/news/professor…

We’re here Worcester College, Oxford for the Psychiatry Dept away day.

Starting with our Head of Dept Belinda Lennox recounting the department’s groundbreaking history and looking forward to more world-leading research activity in the year ahead.

Follow #PsychAwayDay for updates

‘The clinical academic workforce is ageing and without intervention to train and retain a new generation of medical academics, the UK risks its ability to contribute to scientific research, improve patient care and educate an increasing number of medical students’

NEW today, Centre for Mental Health report commissioned by MHN Chief Executive on the economic and social costs of mental ill health in England in 2022. The total of £300 billion is equivalent to twice the NHS budget that year. It’s a huge cost, mostly paid by people living with mental illness

Angela Vincent: a pioneer of immune-mediated disease - The Lancet Neurology thelancet.com/journals/laneu…

People w/ lived experience of #psychosis & their carers are invited to join the PUMA project with MQ.

PUMA will involve the creation of a new clinical trial platform, aiming to speed up the discovery of effective treatments.

More👇
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/va…

Highlights from Psychiatry include Matthew Nour Erdem Pulcu Sherry Wang Briana Applewhite @lfoulkesy Amir Sariaslan and the plenary lecture on the big data genomics of psychiatry disorders from our Michael Davys Chair of Neuroscience Naomi Wray.

#OxNeuro2024

The Oxford Neuroscience Symposium is underway at the Mathematical Institute University of Oxford

It’ll see a range of talks & posters from researchers Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics (DPAG) Pharmacology Oxford including a keynote from Davys Chair Naomi Wray

Follow #OxNeuro

What an honour to speak at British Neuropsychiatry Association today, alongside the brilliant Jesus Ramirez-Bermudez and Adam Handel and to pay tribute to the inspirational Angela Vincent. Thank you Boyd Ghosh for making it happen

We are recruiting for a Director of the UCL Division of Psychiatry.

The position of Director is available from September 2024 for an initial five-year term. Deadline to apply is 21 March 2024.

ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Ever wondered who worked out the counterintuitive, almost paradoxical, effects of stimulants for reducing ADHD symptoms?

Eric Taylor, child psychiatry pioneer, told me during NHS Maudsley trainee lecture that it was serendipitous discovery - like many big discoveries in medicine

Yesterday , at Memorial Sloan Kettering I met very successful young clinician scientist and medical oncologist. Having graduated from the Cambridge MBPhD programme she took one look at UK post grad training and left. In the USA after 1 yr internship, 2 years residency and 1 yr/

There is a crisis in clinical academia in the UK. We talk of the need to expand medical schools, embed research into the NHS to improve care, & the importance of a vibrant life sciences sector for the economy of the UK, & yet we seem unable to tackle the underlying issues 1/9

Really important thread about the importance of NHS support for clinical academic training and why it needs to go beyond lip service. Should matter to all doctors.

From understanding fetal neurodevelopment in pregnancy to analysing the impacts of parental psychosis, researchers at Oxford University are changing the way we think about parental and maternal mental health.

Find out more⬇️ #ParentMentalHealthDay
oxford.shorthandstories.com/parental-and-m…

The correlates of neonatal complement component 3 and 4 protein concentrations with a focus on psychiatric and autoimmune disorders

Cell Genomics

Funded by Danmarks Grundforskningsfond Niels Bohr Professorship

cell.com/cell-genomics/…

“For this species to survive and thrive, funders and professional regulatory bodies should nurture clinician–scientists rather than erect barriers. Individually, the current ranks of clinician–scientists need to inspire and support trainees”

JOB OPPORTUNITY:

Senior Clinical Researcher & Director designate of NIHR Oxford Health BRC

We are looking for a recognised international clinical academic who will provide intellectual leadership in psychiatry.

More info & apply 👇
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Oxford Neuroscience Medical Sciences

Get this! 'Here we show that individual differences in subjective treatment—the THOUGHT of receiving the active or placebo condition during an experiment—can explain variability in outcomes better than the
ACTUAL TREATMENT.' (my caps)
eLife - the journal: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…