Tim Kendall - Joint Managing Director
Tim Kendall is joint director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, deputy director of the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ College Research Unit, and medical director and consultant psychiatrist of Sheffield Care (NHS) Trust.
Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Psychosis with Substance Misuse,
Self-Harm (longer term management)
Previous guidelines: ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, Depression and Chronic
Physical Health Problems, Depression in Children, Eating Disorders, OCD, Schizophrenia (update),
Self-Harm
Steve Pilling - Joint Managing Director
Steve Pilling is joint director of the National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
and director of the Centre for Outcomes, Research and Effectiveness.
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use,
Autistic Spectrum Conditions in Adults, Case Identification
Previous guidelines: Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health,
Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression (update),
Drug Misuse: Opioid Detoxification, Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions, PTSD, Schizophrenia (update)
Research interests:
Health services research, including trials of complex interventions
Psychological treatment
Systematic reviews in mental health and their use in clinical guidelines
Clinical guideline development and implementation in mental health
Chris Sealey - Head of NCCMH
Current guidelines: Case identification
Previous guidelines: ADHD, Depression (update)
Craig Whittington - Senior Systematic Reviewer
Current guidelines: Case Identification, Psychosis with Substance Misuse
Previous guidelines: Dementia, Depression in Children, Eating Disorders, OCD, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenia (update)
Research interests:
Guideline methodology
Meta-analysis and meta-regression
Evidence tables and summary of findings
Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE)
Meta-analytic methods for evaluating behaviour change interventions and enhanced care
The safety and effectivess of antipsychotic and antidepressant medication
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Ifigeneia Mavranezouli - Senior Health Economist
Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Autistic Spectrum Conditions in Adults.
Previous guidelines: Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, ADHD, ASPD,
Bipolar disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dementia, Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions, Long-acting Reversible Contraception (NCC WCH), Schizophrenia (update)
Research interests:
Economic evaluation of mental health interventions
Incorporation of health economics in clinical guideline development
Economic modelling methods
Development of preference-based measures of health-related quality of
life in mental health
Health economics of contraception
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Sarah Stockton - Senior Information Scientist
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update), Autistic Spectrum Conditions in Adults, Case Identification, Psychosis with Substance Misuse, Self-harm (longer term management)
Previous guidelines: ADHD, Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dementia, Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems,
Depression in Children, Drug Misuse: Opioid Detoxification, Drug Misuse:
Psychosocial Interventions, Schizophrenia (update)
Research interests:
Literature searching to support systematic reviews and evidence based practice
Search methodology design, construction methodologies, and use of taxonomies and thesauri in retrieval systems
Metadata for description of digital objects
Systematic review methodology
Information behaviour of collaborative research groups
Training resources to support evidence based practice and clinical governance
Teaching methods for evidence based practice and critical appraisal
Website design and development
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Clare Taylor - Senior Editor
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update), Autistic Spectrum Conditions in Adults, Case Identification, Psychosis with Substance Misuse, Self-Harm (longer term management)
Previous guidelines: ADHD, Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dementia,Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Depression in Children, Drug Misuse: Opioid Detoxification, Drug Misuse:
Psychosocial Interventions, Eating Disorders, OCD, PTSD, Schizophrenia (update), Self Harm (longer term management)
Research interests:
Service user and carer experience of services for mental health problems
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Melissa Chan - Systematic Reviewer
Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Self-Harm (longer term management)
Research interests:
Suicide prevention strategies and interventions
Anti-stigma interventions in mental health
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Nick Meader - Systematic Reviewer
Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Self-Harm (longer term management)
Previous guidelines: ASPD, Dementia, Depression in Chronic and Physical Health Problems,
Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions, Drug Misuse: Opioid detoxification
Research interests:
Guideline methodology
Meta-analysis and meta-regression
Medical statistics and epidemiology
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Amina Udechuku - Systematic Reviewer
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Autistic
Spectrum Conditions in Adults
Research interests:
Alcohol use disorders
Meta-analytic techniques
Diagnosis, and modifiable risk and protective factors (such as hormones and
nutrition) for age-related cognitive decline and dementia
Neuropsychological testing
Epidemiological aging research
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Matthew Dyer - Health Economist
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Psychosis with Substance Misuse
Previous guidelines: Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Schizophrenia (update)
Research interests:
Health economic evaluations in mental Health
Decision modelling
Clinical guidelines
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Dimitra Lambrelli - Health Economist
Current guidelines: Case Identification
Research interests:
Economic evaluation of mental health interventions
Economic modelling methods
Applied health economics
Applied microeconometrics
Health and population economics
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Esther Flanagan - Guideline Development Manager
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependance and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update)
Previous guidelines: ASPD, Schizophrenia (update)
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Katherine Leggett - Guideline Development Manager
Current guidelines: Autistic Spectrum Conditions in Adults,
Psychosis with Substance Misuse, Self-Harm (longer term management)
Previous guidelines: Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems
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Henna Bhatti - Research Assistant
Current guidelines: Self-Harm (longer term management)
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Naomi Glover - Research Assistant
Current guidelines: Autism Spectrum Conditions in Adults
Research interests:
Post traumatic stress disorder
Self-harm
Quality improvement within mental health services
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Marie Halton - Research Assistant
Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Self-Harm (longer term management)
Research interests:
Muscle dysmorphia and body image
Social rejection
The role of carers in preventing challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities
Anxiety and self-harm
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Tim Kember - Research Assistant
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Research interests:
False memory
Psychosis and psychological therapies
Post traumatic stress disorder; how members of the emergency services cope with traumatic experiences
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Caroline Salter - Research Assistant
Current guidelines: Case Identifcation
Research interests:
Depression and self-harm
Eating disorders
The role of stigma in mental health treatment
Treatment access in primary care
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Rob Saunders - Research Assistant
Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use
Research interests:
Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in the treatment of substance use disorders
Systematic reviews of treatment effectiveness for mental health issues
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Melinda Smith - Research Assistant
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