Swaran Singh MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, DM

Professor Singh trained as a psychiatrist at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, India before moving to the UK in 1991. He was a lecturer and consultant at Nottingham and in 2001 moved to St George’s University of London as senior lecturer in psychiatry. There he developed the ETHOS early intervention service (Early Treatment and Home-based Outreach Service) which gained an international reputation for its success in improving outcomes for young people with psychosis and its cost-effective use of resources.
He headed the Section of Serious Mental Illness Research at St George’s and chaired the London Mental Health Research and Development (LoMRH&D) network. In 2006, he joined the University of Warwick as Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry and consultant psychiatrist for the East Birmingham Early Intervention Service. He has published widely in his areas of interest which include epidemiology, onset and outcomes of early psychosis, culture and ethnicity in mental health, health services evaluation, mental health law, medical education and continuity of care.