Glyn Lewis is a British professor of
psychiatric epidemiology and the current head of th
Division of Psychiatryat
University College London
Education
Glyn Lewis was born in
Wales. He studied at
University College, Oxford, where he played
saxophone with ''
The Oxcentrics
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Dixieland jazz band. Lewis trained as a psychiatrist at th
Maudsley Hospitalin London and as an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He received his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry at
King's College London
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.
Research
Lewis worked at the
University of Bristol and the
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prior to his current post at UCL. He has published extensively on psychiatric epidemiology, including investigating the causes of psychiatric disorders. His research is in the area of the
aetiology of
schizophrenia and
depression and the treatment of depression and other
mental disorders. He has published widely in leading journals such as ''
The Lancet'', including research on the risk of
psychosis due to the use of
cannabis and the
mental health of
Afghan
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and
Iraq veterans. He has conducted several randomized controlled trials, including the PREVENT study, a trial comparing antidepressants with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, ANTLER Antidepressants to prevent relapse in depression, and PANDA, a trial investigating the effectiveness of antidepressants in mild depression.
References
External links
Glyn Lewis homepage at University College London">University College London">Glyn Lewis homepage at University College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of University College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Bristol
Welsh psychiatrists
Psychiatry academics
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NIHR Senior Investigators
English jazz saxophonists
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