David H. Skuse MBChB, MRCP, MRCPsych

Professor Skuse trained in medicine at the University of Manchester, before specialising in general medicine in Oxford. He then trained to become a child psychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry in South London before moving to take up a joint consultant and academic role at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute of Child Health in 1985. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Professor David Skuse is an Honorary Consultant in Developmental Neuropsychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Trust, and Head of the Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. He is director of the National Centre for High Functioning Autism at Great Ormond Street Hospital.