APPLICANT - Imperial College London

The Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry is the largest and most successful
psychiatric research grouping in Europe. It comprises 350 staff and 32 Professors. The
successful applicant for the F2 programme can therefore choose from a huge range of fields
in which to carry out research. These can be seen on the website of the Institute
www.iop.kcl.ac.uk. This includes general hospital psychiatry, epidemiology, psychosis,
dementia, PTSD, depression, perinatal psychiatry, eating disorders, psychological treatment,
neuropsychiatry etc. The majority of the appointed individual's time will be taken up with
research but clinical work can also be arranged if desired. Further information can be
obtained from Professor Simon Wessely simon.wessely@kcl.ac.uk. The associated F2
clinical attachments will be A&E and General Internal Medicine (Cardiology).
4. THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AND PARTNER TRUSTS
King’s College London School of Medicine
King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher Education
2009) and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of
London, King's has nearly 23,000 students (of whom more than 8,600 are graduate
students) from nearly 140 countries, and some 5,500 employees
King's College London School of Medicine is one of the largest medical research and
teaching centres in Europe.
King's College London School of Medicine is located across three hospital based campuses:
Guy’s Campus, King’s Denmark Hill Campus (King’s College Hospital and the Maudsley
Hospital) and St Thomas’ Hospital Campus.
Each campus has seen major investment to improve facilities and capacity for its leading
research programmes. In 2006, each Campus secured funding for a Clinical Research
Facility.
The School's research excellence is well recognised. Within its nine research divisions, the
School hosts two MRC Centres in Transplantation and the Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma
and in 2008 alone was awarded Centre of Excellence status by the British Heart Foundation
with funding of £9 million and opened £4 million Breakthrough Breast Cancer Unit.
With the launch of King's Health Partners in 2008, the School is working closer than ever
before with its NHS partners in achieving excellence in research, teaching and clinical
service.
King's Health Partners
King’s Health Partners is a pioneering collaboration between King’s College London and
Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trusts.
This unique combination brings together one of the world’s leading research-led universities
and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts. KHP’s driving purpose is to
continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and wellbeing
for our patients and people everywhere, by combining the best of basic and
translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking
advances in physical and mental healthcare.
KHP is one of only five Academic Health Science Centres in the UK accredited by the
Department of Health. This followed a selection process carried out by a panel of
internationally renowned clinicians and researchers.
www.stfs.org.uk/student/academic-programmes
Email: tfsacademicrecruitment@stfs.org.uk
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