Speaker
Anita Thapar
Professor, Cardiff University
Biography
Anita is a clinical academic child and adolescent psychiatrist.
Her research focuses on ADHD and youth mental health and is lead editor of Rutter's Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Anita was awarded a CBE for services to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, President’s Medal from the Royal College of Psychiatrists for contributions to policy, public knowledge, education, meeting population and patient care needs, Ruane Prize for outstanding Child & Adolescent Psychiatric research and World ADHD Federation medal for her contributions to ADHD.
She was co-chair for the Welsh Government Ministerial Advisory Group: neurodivergence and Chair of the NHS-England ADHD Taskforce.