Speaker
Dr Ian Kelleher
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Edinburgh University. Adjunct Professor, University College Dublin and University of Oulu.
Biography
Ian Kelleher is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Edinburgh University(UK) and an Academy of Medical Sciences Professor. He is adjunct professor at University College Dublin (Ireland) and University of Oulu (Finland). His research focuses on investigating mental health trajectories from childhood into adulthood – especially identifying and reducing risk for severe mental illness, including schizophrenia-spectrum and bipolar disorders. To do this, his team uses electronic health register data from Scotland, Wales and Finland, as well as working on inpatient and outpatient clinical studies. Clinically, he works as a child and adolescent psychiatrist in Edinburgh.