Irving Kirsch is a
visiting professor at the University of Lincoln and professor emeritus at the University of Hull and the
University of Connecticut. He has published 10 books and more than 200 scientific journal articles and
book chapters on placebo effects, antidepressant medication, hypnosis and suggestion. His meta-analyses
on the efficacy of antidepressants were covered extensively in the international media and
have influenced official guidelines for the treatment of
depression in the United Kingdom. His book, The Emperor's New
Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, was published in the
UK by Bodley Head, a division
of Random House, and by Basic Books in the United States. It has also been published in Japanese and French,
and a Polish edition is currently in press.
Roderick Ørner is Consultant Clinical Psychologist in private practice and visiting professor of clinical psychology at the University of Lincoln where he was awarded his PhD in 2005. His clinical experience comprises of specialist assessment and therapy for adult patients especially following exposure to traumatic events in the maritime industries (ForceMajeureMaritime.com). He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. His trauma related research interests range from British Falklands War Veterans, European War Veterans and the provision of psychological support services for emergency responder groups. He hosted the First European Conference on Traumatic Stress in Lincoln in 1988 and has maintained a leading role within the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies of which he was President between 1997 and 1999. He is senior editor of ‘Reconstructing Early Intervention after Trauma’ 2003 by Oxford University Press. Current research interests include improving sleep management in primary care and aspects of
ambulance care.
Mohammad Iqbal is a Research Associate at the East Midlands
Ambulance Service NHS Trust in Lincoln and a Visiting Fellow at
the University of Lincoln. He graduated MBBS in 1984 and worked
in health programmes for the government of Bangladesh, West
Indies, Middle East and West Africa. He trained in Community
Health and Tropical Medicine and gained his masters in 1992 and
postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in 1993
from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. His current
interests are in healthcare quality improvement and prehospital
research. Iqbal is also undertaking a part time PhD at the
Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences, University of
Lincoln.
Deborah Shaw is a visiting research fellow at the University of
Lincoln and is Clinical Audit and Research Manager at East
Midlands Ambulance Service, NHS Trust. She has worked in the
ambulance service in Lincolnshire for 16 years starting as a
secretary, developing and interest in audit and research after
moving to the Clinical Governance department 8 years ago as a
data analyst. She was part of the team which introduced research
into the, then, Lincolnshire Ambulance Service, becoming
Clinical Audit and Research Manager in 2009. For the past 2
years Deborah has been national co-ordinator for the Ambulance
Clinical Performance Indicators, and has recently completed an
MSc Medical and Health Sciences. Current interests include
qualitative pre-hospital emergency care research and quality
improvement.
Sami Timimi is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist,
Director of Postgraduate Education in the NHS in Lincolnshire
and Visiting Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the
University of Lincoln. He writes from a critical psychiatry
perspective in leading journals on eating disorders,
psychotherapy, behavioural disorders and cross-cultural
psychiatry. He has authored four books, Pathological Child
Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood (2002), Naughty
Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture
(2005), Misunderstanding ADHD: A Complete Guide for Parents to
Alternatives to Drugs (2007), and A Straight Talking
Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems (2009). He
co-edited with Begum Maitra Critical Voices in Child and
Adolescent Mental Health (2006), Liberatory Psychiatry:
Philosophy, Politics, and Mental Health with Carl Cohen (2008)
and Rethinking ADHD: From Brain to Culture with Jonathan Leo
(2009). He co-authored with Brian McCabe and Neil Gardner, The
Myth of Autism: Medicalising Men and Boys’ Social and Emotional
Competence (2010).