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Malcolm Weller

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About Prof Malcolm Weller

Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist at Barnet, Enfield and Haringey NHS Mental Health Trust, Honorary Research Professor at Middlesex University.

Second Opinion Approved Doctor for the Mental Health Act 1983.

Previous Chairman of the London Region Psychiatric Committee. Honorary adviser to mental health charities and previous Chairman of Concern.

Previous Mental Health Act Commissioner.

Degrees in medicine and surgery from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and a Master’s degree from Cambridge University in Psychology. As well as being a Consultant Psychiatrist, I am a Chartered.

Awards and prizes from:

Mental Health Foundation (Scholarship),

Cambridge University (Baron ver Heyden de Lancey),

Newcastle University (Wilfred Kingdom)

British Council travel award.

Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Executive Member of Neuropsychiatry and Academic Faculties, Member International Congress Organising Committee and Clinical Excellence Award Committee), and the British Psychological Society, International Fellow American Psychiatric Association, Lifetime Achievement Honorary Fellow of the Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum (CINP). Invited Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. Fellow and Council Member Royal Society of Medicine. Hon. Member British Neuropsychiatry Association. Founder Member British Association of Psychopharmacology and Expert Witness Institute. Invited member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Emeritus Member American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Previous Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, and member of the Central Council of the British Medical Association. Vice Chairman (1984-1993) BMA N.E. Thames Consultants and Specialists Committee.

Elected and co-opted on to various Executive Committees of London University and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and lead author of reports.

Royal Society of Medicine Council Member, Psychiatry Section, and representative to NICE. Previous Royal College representative to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

Author or editor of 5 books, including a textbook (2 editions) which was recommended reading by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Editor in Chief for Bailliere’s Clinical Psychiatry series (11 vols). Publications include many book chapters and about 150 peer reviewed Scientific papers, and Editorials, including publications on anxiety, depression and psychiatric reactions to stress.

Invited presentations at foreign meetings and institutions, and British Medical Schools and Universities.

Prize adjudicator at the Royal Society of Medicine. Previous member of London University Examination Committee. Royal College of Psychiatrists examiner and PhD Examiner at Manchester University.

Initiated and ran courses for the British Postgraduate Federation at 3 Teaching Hospitals and for the Medical Research Council, video teaching material and a rating scale prepared for the W.H.O.

Past referee for several psychiatric journals, and the British Medical Journal; currently Medicine, Science and the Law.

Member Editorial Board, British Journal of Medical Practitioners.

Invited advisor to Parliamentary Committees and the Law Commission on Consultation papers. Several reported cases.

Instructions received from Germany, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Norway, where I was an appointed expert to the Crown Court, Oslo. Instructed by the Metropolitan Police, the Official Solicitor, the Treasury Solicitor, the Serious Fraud Office, Department of Public Prosecutions in England and also the Channel Islands, the Royal College of Nursing, the Medical Defence Society, the Medical Protection Society, the NHS Litigation Authority and individual NHS trusts, and given invited advice to the General Medical Council and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Founder member of the Expert Witness Institute and on the Law Society’s panel of experts.

Recognised by the General Medical Council under the European Specialist Medical Qualification Order 1995.