IoPPN Inaugural Lectures: 2022-2023

Professor Charlotte Hanlon | 11 July 2023

"Working to improve the things that matter to people with mental health conditions in Ethiopia (and beyond)"

Chair: Professor Declan Murphy, Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment, and Director of the Institute of Translational Neurodevelopment

Vote of Thanks: Professor Francesca Happe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

The sixth Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Charlotte Hanlon.

Professor James MacCabe | 4 July 2023

"When the drugs don't work: the challenge of treatment resistant psychosis"

Chair: Professor Oliver Howes, Professor of Molecular Psychiatry

Vote of Thanks: Sir Robin Murray, Professor of Psychiatric Research

The eighth Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by James MacCabe as Professor of Epidemiology and Therapeutics in Psychosis.

Professor Roland Zahn | 29 June 2023

'The finger of blame in depression and the brain'

Chair: Professor Allan Young, Vice Dean (Academic Psychiatry)

Vote of Thanks: Professor Trudie Chalder, Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy

The seventh Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Roland Zahn as Professor of Mood Disorders & Cognitive Neuroscience.

Professor Eva Loth | 16 June 2023

'The role of concepts, trends and lived experience in autism research'

Chair: Professor Declan Murphy, Professor of Translational Neurodevelopment, and Director of the Institute of Translational Neurodevelopment

Vote of Thanks: Professor Francesca Happe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

The sixth Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Eva Loth as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Professor Valeria Mondelli | 4 May 2023

Body-mind interaction in a galaxy far far away

Chair: Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Interim Executive Dean

Vote of Thanks: Professor Carmine Pariante, Professor of Biological Psychiatry

The fifth Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Professor Valeria Mondelli as Clinical Professor of Psychoneuroimmunology, IoPPN.

Professor Stephani Hatch | 30 March 2023

Fighting for Health and Social Equity: Lessons from a southernplayalistic ATLien

Chair: Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Interim Executive Dean

Vote of Thanks: Professor Matthew Hotopf, IoPPN Vice Dean (Research) and Director, NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

The fourth Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Professor Stephani Hatch as Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology and Vice Dean, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, IoPPN.

Professor Claire Henderson | 23 March 2023

Listen, share, negotiate – Approaches to empower and destigmatise

Chair and Vote of Thanks: Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft, Professor of Community Psychiatry at the Centre for Global Mental Health and the Centre for Implementation Science

The third Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Professor Claire Henderson, Clinical Professor of Public Mental Health, IoPPN.

Professor Susan Duty | 6 February 2023

‘The Call of Duty: Pharmacology vs Parkinson’s Disease’

Chair: Professor Mark Richardson, Head of School (Neuroscience)

Vote of Thanks: Professor Patrick Doherty, Emeritus Professor, Neuroscience

The second Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Professor Susan Duty as Professor of Pharmacology & Neuroscience, IoPPN.

Professor Gráinne McAlonan | 12 January 2023

'Translating Neuroscience – across species, across development and into clinic’

Chair: Professor Allan Young

Vote of Thanks: Professor Declan Murphy

The first Inaugural Lecture of 2023 was delivered by Professor Gráinne McAlonan, Professor of Translational Neuroscience, IoPPN. Thursday 12 January at 17:30, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Main IoPPN Building.