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Professor David Cottrell

Title

Dean of Medicine

Email

D.J.Cottrell@leeds.ac.uk

Phone

0113 3434230 or contact Helen Bromwich (PA) on 0113 3433264

Address

School of Medicine
Level 8 Worlsey Building
University of Leeds
Clarendon Way
Leeds
LS2 9NL

BHRC Role

BHRC Executive member

Research Interests

Evidence based practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Systematic reviews
Randomised Controlled trials
Local service evaluations.

About

BA (Hons.) Physiological Science – Oxford (1976)
MA conferred – Oxford (1983)
MB BS – London (1979)
MRCPsych (1983)
UKCP Registered Family Psychotherapist (1996)
FRCPsych (1999)

David graduated from Oxford in 1976, and London in 1979. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Leeds in 1994. His clinical practice is as an honorary consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist and systemic family psychotherapist in the local Leeds Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, part of Leeds Primary Care Trust.

He was Director of Learning & Teaching in the School of Medicine with responsibility for all undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching activity from 1999 – 2006. In 2008 he was appointed Dean of Medicine at the school.

Grants Awarded

SHIFT. Self Harm Intervention, Family Therapy: a randomised controlled trial of family therapy vs. treatment as usual for young people seen after second or subsequent epsodes of self harm.

Health Technology Agency, Ref 07/33/01
Research Grant including NHS costs £4,516,702. 6 years from December 2008.
Principle applicant.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for Children in Need: Can MST prevent outcome of home placements, reduce conduct problems and improve wellbeing in adolescents at risk of being removed from the home?
Department of Health. £982,358. 4 years from 2009.

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