Speaker
Blandine French
Senior research fellow, University of Nottingham
Biography
Blandine's expertise on ADHD has been gained through her work in clinical and research environments primarily with parents, children and young people. She completed her PhD in Applied Psychology at the University of Nottingham investigating the awareness and understanding of ADHD in primary care settings. She specifically looked into how well GPs understand ADHD and its care pathway, developed and evaluated an online training tools coproduced with GPs to increase their awareness of ADHD. Blandine's current project evaluates the economic cost of undiagnosed ADHD and/or autism and the risks associated with not receiving a diagnosis for these conditions.