Allan House BSc, MBBS, MRCP, DM

Dr. Allan House graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. He is Professor of Liaison Psychiatry in the Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences. Liaison psychiatry is the sub-specialty of psychiatry concerned with psychiatric practice in non-psychiatric settings, especially in general hospitals. From 2005 to September 2013 he was Director of the Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, a multidisciplinary institute in the School of Medicine with a substantial portfolio of activities in applied health research.

His personal research interests include: the overlap between physical and mental disorder, medically unexplained symptoms, suicide and self-harm. Allan chairs the Yorkshire and Humber Research Funding Committee of the National Institute for Health Research's Research for Patient Benefit programme. He has served as a member of the HTA Commissioning Board and is a member of the NIHR Panel of Experts.