Richard Hamish Mcallister-williams BSc, MBChB, PhD, MD, FRCP

Prof R. Hamish McAllister-Williams, BSc, MB, ChB, Ph.D., M.D., FRCPsych. Prof McAllister-Williams is Professor of Affective Disorders in the Northern Centre for Mood Disorders (mood-disorders.co.uk) at the Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University. His research focuses on the pathophysiology and treatment of both bipolar and unipolar affective disorders. He works clinically in the tertiary level specialist Regional Affective Disorders Service in Northumberland Tyne and Wears NHS Foundation Trust, providing outpatient and inpatient services for patients with treatment-refractory mood disorders. He is a past General Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) and was appointed in 2012 as the BAP Director of Education. He is a major contributor to their CPD programme. He has published in excess of 150 journal papers, reviews, book chapters, and conference abstracts.