Speaker
Alan Meehan
Lecturer in Psychology (Education), Department of Psychology Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's College London
Biography
Dr Alan Meehan is a Lecturer in Psychology (Education) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. His research career has sought to identify processes of risk and resilience for child and adolescent mental health problems, with a particular focus on childhood trauma and adversity. This work has drawn extensively on data from longitudinal cohorts and, more recently, electronic patient records drawn from real-world mental health services. His current research aims to apply novel prediction modelling and machine learning approaches to enhance identification of mental health risk among young people in both community and clinical settings.