Joint MD of the NCCMH

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

Previous guidelines: ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, Depression in Children, Eating Disorders, OCD, Schizophrenia (update), Self-Harm (longer term management)

Joint MD of the NCCMH

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, Depression (update)

Previous guidelines: Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression in adults, 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 - Centre Manager

Current guidelines: DCHP, Depression (update)

Previous guidelines: ADHD, ASPD chris sealey

Senior Systematic Reviewer
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Current guidelines: Case ID, 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

Senior Health Economist
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Current guidelines: Anxiety (update)

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

Senior Information Scientist
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Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update), Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Psychosis with Substance Misuse

Previous guidelines: ADHD, Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dementia, Depression in Children, Drug Misuse: Opioid Detoxification, Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions, Schizophrenia (update), Self Harm (longer term management)

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

Editor
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Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update), Case ID, Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Psychosis with Substance Misuse

Previous guidelines: ADHD, Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Dementia, 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

Systematic Reviewer
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Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Self Harm (longer term management)

Previous guidelines: None

Research interests:
Suicide prevention strategies and interventions
Anti-stigma interventions in mental health

Systematic Reviewer
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Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Depression in Chronic and Physical Health Problems, Drug Misuse: Psychosocial Interventions

Previous guidelines: ASPD, Dementia, Opioid detoxification

Research interests:
Guideline methodology
Meta-analysis and meta-regression
Medical statistics and epidemiology

Systematic Reviewer
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Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use)

Previous guidelines: None

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

Health Economist
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Current guidelines: Depression (update), Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Psychosis with Substance Misuse

Previous guidelines: Schizophrenia (update)

Research interests:
Health economic evaluations in mental Health
Decision modelling
Clinical Guidelines

Health Economist
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Current guidelines: Case ID

Previous guidelines: None

Research interests:

Guideline Development Manager
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Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependance and Harmful Alcohol Use, Anxiety (update)

Previous guidelines: ASPD, Schizophrenia (update)

Guideline Development Manager
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Current guidelines: Depression and Chronic Physical Health Problems, Psychosis with Substance Misuse, Self Harm (longer term management)

Previous guidelines: [none]

Research Assistant
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Current guidelines: Self Harm (longer term management)

Previous guidelines: None

Research interests:

Research Assistant
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Current guidelines: Anxiety (update), Self Harm (longer term management)

Previous guidelines: None

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

Research Assistant
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Current guidelines: Case ID

Previous guidelines: None

Research interests:
Depression and self-harm
Eating disorders
The role of stigma in mental health treatment
Treatment access in primary care

Research Assistant
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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

Research Assistant
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Current guidelines: Alcohol Dependence and Harmful Alcohol Use, Psychosis with Substance Misuse

Previous guidelines: None

Research interests:
Psychosis
Harmful alcohol use and dependence
Global mental health
Psychological interventions in low and middle income countries
Factors affecting access to mental health care

CORE Centre Administrator

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CRTU Centre Administrator

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