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Current NHS consultant posts held
Emeritus Consultant, Bethlem & Maudsley NHS Trust (now South London and Maudsley NHS Trust)
Research interests
Research and publications include about the role of social factors in the development of anxiety and depressive illness and models for establishing mental health services in developing countries.
Personal interests
Sailing, Tennis
Awards received
1976 Open Exhibition, Oxford University; 1983 Merit Award, Middlesex Hospital;1990 Maudsley Hospital Mapother Award; 1992 MacArthur Foundation Research Scholarship; 1994 Maudsley Prize for Medical Student Teaching;1994 Travelling Fellowship, Royal College of Psychiatrists UK; 1998 Sir Graham Day Award (for NHS service development, UK); 2001 Clinical Achievement Award, Waitemata Health services; 2002 Merit award (for service developments, New Zealand).
Publications
Over 40 academic publications, including:
Rovner B.W, Broadhead J.C, Spencer M, Carson K, Folstein M. (1989) Depression and Alzheimer's Disease. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146: 3, 350- 353.
Broadhead J.C. and Jacoby R.J. (1990) Mania in Old Age: A First Prospective Study. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 5, 215 - 222.
Rovner B.W., German P.S., Broadhead J.C., Morriss R.K., Blaustein J., Folstein M.F. (1990) The prevalence and management of dementia and other psychiatric disorders in nursing homes. International Psychogeriatrics, Spring, 2(1): 13-24.
Abas M.A., Broadhead J.C., Mbape P., Khumalo-Sakatukwa, G. Defeating depression in the developing world. A Zimbabwean Model. British Journal of Psychiatry, 1994, 164, 293-296.
Abas M.A. and Broadhead J.C. (1994) Mental ill health - as great a concern for developing world. Editorial - British Medical Journal, 308, 1052-1053.
Broadhead J.C. and Abas M.A. (1994) Primary mental health care in developing countries, peer reviewed working paper for: World mental health: priorities, problems and responses. Eds: Desjarlais R, Kleinman A & Eisenberg L., Oxford University Press.
Abas, M.A. & Broadhead J.C. (1997). Depression and anxiety among women in an urban setting in Zimbabwe. Psychological Medicine, 27, 59-71.
Broadhead J.C. & Abas M.A. (1998) Life events and difficulties and the onset of depression among women in a low-income urban setting in Zimbabwe. Psychological Medicine, 28, 29-38.
Broadhead J.C., Piachaud J.M.. & Birley J. (1999) Helping to promote psychiatry in less developed countries. Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 5, 21-220. Abas M., Chagwadera I.,
Patel V., Abas M., Broadhead J., Todd C. & Reeler T. (2000) Depression in developing countries. British Medical Journal, 322, 482-484.
Broadhead J.C. & Abas M.A. (2001) Social support and life events as risk factors for depression amongst women in an urban setting in Zimbabwe. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 36. 115-122.
Courses offered to GPs
About assessment in general psychiatry and the management of anxiety and mood disorders.
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