Past-President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), Mental Health Foundation (2014-2020) Professor Dinesh Bhugra has authored/co-authored over 600 scientific papers, chapters, editorials and 49 books several have won awards and translated into Mandarin and Japanese.  His recent research has focused on burnout in medical students and doctors, geo-psychiatry, […]

Founder of the Friendship Bench Professor Dixon Chibanda is a professor of psychiatry and global mental health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and at the University of Zimbabwe.  He is  the founder of the Friendship Bench, a low intensity psychological intervention that trains community grandmothers to deliver cognitive behaviour therapy from […]

Dr Karen Devon is an Endocrine surgeon at Women’s College Hospital and the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Joint Center for Bioethics in the Dalla Lana school of Public Health at the University of Toronto.  She completed medical school at McGill University […]

Prof. Todd Farchione received his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed a clinical internship at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Before joining the faculty at BU, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital and the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CARD) at Boston University. Prof. Farchione […]

Dame Lesley Regan is Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at Imperial College London at St Mary’s Hospital Campus, where she continues her clinical practice and research in recurrent pregnancy loss, menstrual disorders, menopause and post-reproductive women’s health. She is also Chair of Wellbeing of Women, the only UK charity to fund research, education and advocacy […]

Julia Samuel MBE is a leading UK psychotherapist who worked for decades in the NHS. She is the Founder Patron of Child Bereavement UK; an organisation she played a significant part for 25 years. She is a former Vice President of BACP. Julia has written three best-selling books; Grief Works, This Too Shall Pass, and […]