Speaker
Emily Simonoff
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Director, King's Maudsley Partnership for Children and Young People
Biography
Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, where she is also head of the Department. She is also academic lead for the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Clinical Academic Group at the South London and Maudsley Foundation Trust (SLaM). Within SLaM she has focussed on how digital innovations can address clinical and research challenges. She in a UK National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator and Senior Clinical Advisor to the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Her clinical and research focus is on autism ad ADHD. Her policy work in autism includes being a member of the Strategy Board for the UK National Autism Project, a member of the Westminster Commission for Autism and has given evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Autism and the APPG on ADHD. Internationally, she chairs the European ADHD Guidelines Group. Emily receives research funding from the Medical Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute of Health and Research EU Innovative Medicines Initiative, amongst other organization. She is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist in the Maudsley-based Service for Complex Autism and Associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders, funded by NHS England to see children and young people across the southern region with complex presentations.