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Tamsin Ford
Tamsin Ford
NationalityBritish
EducationLondon School of Medicine & Tropical Medicine
University of London
Scientific career
FieldsChild & adolescent psychiatry
InstitutionsUniversity of Exeter Medical School

Tamsin Ford MB BS MRCPsych CCST FRCPsych is a British psychiatrist specialising in children's mental health. Since 2007 she has been based at the University of Exeter Medical School where she is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.[1] She is the creator of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme, which aims to raise and improve children's mental health in primary schools across Devon - something Ford cites as her biggest achievement to date.[2] Her work also ties in with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, created by Robert Goodman - another eminent child psychiatrist.[3]

Career

Early career

Ford was awarded a MB BS on graduation from United Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's, University of London in 1990. As a junior doctor between 1991-1992, she held posts at Guy's and Lewisham Hospital (surgery), Orpington Hospital (medicine), King's College Hospital (A&E) and Royal London Hospital (eldercare). She entered psychiatry in 1992 when she began her core professional training, passing her MRCPsych examination in 1995. On achieving her membership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Ford was appointed Senior Registrar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with the Bethlem and Maudsley NHS Trust, obtaining a CCST in 1998.

Between 1995-2005 Ford did her fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. While on her Fellowship, she worked in the Clinical Research Worker Department at King's, as well as holding clinical posts at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Tourette's Clinic and Epilepsy Surgery Clinic) and Maudsley Hospital (National and Specialist OCD Clinic). Ford achieved her MSc (distinction) in Epidemiology at the London School of Medicine and Tropical Medicine in 2000, followed by her PHD in 2004 with the thesis "Services for Children with mental health disorders: rates and predictors of specialist service use".

Towards the end of her fellowship, Ford had a short spell working for the Croydon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service as a member of their Children Looked After Team. She was also one of the editors of the medical publication "A Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology" which was released in 2003 and was highly commended in the BMA book competition held the following year.[4] In 2005 she was appointed MRC Clinician Scientist for the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

Exeter Medical School

In 2007 Ford moved to Exeter, Devon, where she was appointed as Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, setting up the Child Mental Health Research Group in September. At the beginning of 2008 she was appointed to the Exeter and Mid Devon Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Devon Partnership NHS Trust) as an honorary consultant. Later that year, her publication "Five years on: public sector service use related to mental health in young people with ADHD or hyperkinetic disorder five years after diagnosis", of which she was a co-author, was selected as one of the top ten publications of the year by editors of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health journal.[5]

Another honorary consultant role followed in May 2011, when Ford was appointed to the Exeter Liaison team on the Devon NHS Partnership Trust. Two years later she was appointed as personal chair of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Exeter Medical School, and by 2014 she was awarded a FRCPsych - becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She continued working on a variety of medical publications, three of which received Emerald literati highly commended papers at the 2013, 2014 and 2017 Network Awards for Excellence.[6][7][8] In 2012 Ford started setting up of the Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management (TCM) programme in order to help promote awareness and understanding of mental health in children aged 6-11, and by 2018 this programme was implemented in 80 primary schools across Devon.[9] In 2018 Ford was voted as one of the 100 most influential women in Exeter by Grow Exeter.[2]

Honours

  • Honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at Devon Partnership NHS Trust
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Surveillance Service
  • Founder member of the Child Outcome Research Consortium (CORC)
  • Board member of the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)

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Selected publications

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Highly commended in the 2004 BMA book competition.
  2. ^ This paper was selected by editors of Child and Adolescent Mental Health as one of the top ten publications of 2008.
  3. ^ Emerald literati highly commended paper in the 2013 Network Awards for Excellence.
  4. ^ Emerald literati highly commended paper in the 2015 Network Awards for Excellence.
  5. ^ Emerald literati highly commended paper in the 2017 Network Awards for Excellence.

References

  1. ^ "Tamsin Ford - Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry". Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "AMSIN FORD: PROFESSOR OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY (EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL) AND HONORARY CONSULTANT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRIST (DEVON PARTNERSHIP TRUST)". Grow Exeter. 5 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample". Cambridge University Press. 2 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Practical Psychiatric Epidemiology". Oxford Medicine Online. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Five Years On: Public Sector Service Use Related to Mental Health in Young People with ADHD or Hyperkinetic Disorder Five Years After Diagnosis". Wiley Online Library. 11 August 2008.
  6. ^ "Challenges recruiting families with children at risk of anti‐social behaviour into intervention trials: lessons from the Helping Children Achieve (HCA) study". Emerald Insight. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Routine outcome monitoring of evidence-based parenting programmes: indications of effectiveness in a community context". Emerald Insight. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  8. ^ "A comparison of parent reported outcome with experience of services". Emerald Insight. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  9. ^ "The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the Incredible Years® Teacher Classroom Management programme in primary school children: results of the STARS cluster randomised controlled trial" (PDF). Psychological Medicine. 22 December 2017.
  10. ^ "Tamsin Ford - University of Exeter". University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health. Retrieved 25 May 2019.


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