Emily Simonoff is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is the name for NHS-provided services in the United Kingdom for children, generally until school-leaving age, who are having difficulties with their emotional well-being or are deemed to have pe ...

(CAMHS)

Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychiatry or Organic Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that deals with psychiatry as it relates to neurology, in an effort to understand and attribute behavior to the interaction of neurobiology and social psychology factors. Within neurop ...

Service, head of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department at the

Institute of Psychiatry The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) is a research institution dedicated to discovering what causes mental illness and diseases of the brain. In addition, its aim is to help identify new treatments for them and ways ...

and lead for the CAMHS Clinical Academic Group at

King's Health Partners King's Health Partners is an academic health science centre located in London, United Kingdom. It comprises King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and South London and Maud ...

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

Career and research

Simonoff is chair of the Mental Health Research Network for treatment of children with mental health problems and a member of the

NICE Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

guideline development group for treatment and diagnosis of autism in children and adolescents. She is on the editorial board of

British Journal of Psychiatry The ''British Journal of Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering all branches of psychiatry with a particular emphasis on the clinical aspects of each topic. The journal is owned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and publis ...

. She is a Fellow of the

Royal College of Psychiatrists The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom, and is responsible for representing psychiatrists, for psychiatric research and for providing public information about mental health ...

and a Senior Investigator at the

National Institute for Health and Care Research The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the British government’s major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, its mission is to "impr ...

(NIHR).

Selected publications

* Simonoff, Emily, Catherine RG Jones, Andrew Pickles,

Francesca Happé Francesca Gabrielle Elizabeth Happé (born 1967) is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College Lon ...

, Gillian Baird, and Tony Charman. "Severe mood problems in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder."

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry scope The ''Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering both child and adolescent psychology and psychiatry providing an interdisciplinary perspective to the multidisciplinary field of child and a ...

53, no. 11 (2012): 1157–1166. * Charman, Tony, Andrew Pickles, Emily Simonoff, Susie Chandler, Tom Loucas, and Gillian Baird. "IQ in children with autism spectrum disorders: data from the Special Needs and Autism Project (SNAP)." Psychological medicine 41, no. 03 (2011): 619–627. * Angold, Adrian, Michael Prendergast, Anthony Cox, R. Harrington, Emily Simonoff, and Michael Rutter. "The child and adolescent psychiatric assessment (CAPA)." Psychological medicine 25, no. 4 (1995): 739–754.

References

British women academics Academics of King's College London NIHR Senior Investigators Fellows of the Royal College of Psychiatrists British child psychiatrists British women psychiatrists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{psychiatrist-stub