Anthony David MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, MSc

Anthony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He also has a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology. He has been an honorary consultant at the Maudsley since 1990 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 1996. He was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry in 2013.

David is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He also a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and a founder member of both the British Neuropsychological Society and British Neuropsychiatry Association - He was Chairman to the latter from 2004-7.

He is the editor of the journal “Cognitive Neuropsychiatry”, and have co-edited several books including The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (1994) with J. Cutting, Disorders of Brain and Mind (1998) with M. Ron, The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry (2003) with T Kircher, and Insight and Psychosis (2nd Ed) (2004) with X. Amador and Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry (2009). He is author of just over 500 publications in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals.