Speaker
Dr. Brian Jacobs
Emeritus Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, SLAM
Biography
Dr. Brian Jacobs has worked for many years running the children’s inpatient psychiatric unit at the Bethlem Royal Hospital and as a paediatric neuropsychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital. has chaired the UK Committee responsible for higher child psychiatric training from 2007-2014. He was elected President of the Board for the UEMS-CAP (the section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) in 2011. In this role he has led the education functions of the CAP section, including a complete revision of the curriculum for training specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry, producing a new logbook, training requirements, and training governance documents. Brian edited sections of a large e-learning programme (two of several) for a consortium of Royal Colleges, the BPS, Young Minds and The National Children’s Bureau on aspects of child mental health. He has been responsible for the commissioning and editing of 120 x 30 minute sessions accessible through www.minded.org.uk – the project has been funded by the Department of Health.