Dr Gauri Sathe
Clinical Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Contact:
Email address: gauri.sathe@nhs.net
Month: February 2025
Clinical Research Fellow
Biography
I completed Medical graduation and post-graduation in pharmacology. I worked as a clinical research fellow in oncology and now works as a research fellow in mood disorders. I primarily work in Ketamine treatment in drug resistance depression.
My passion is understanding the impact that mental health conditions can have on a person’s overall health and wellbeing of the person . I am passionate about clinical research and medical education, helping to advance the field of psychiatry and improve treatments for mental illness.
Dr Benjamin Perry
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of Birmingham
Consultant Psychiatrist
Birmingham Early Intervention Services
Contact:
Email address: b.i.perry@bham.ac.uk
Month: February 2025
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry - University of Birmingham, Consultant Psychiatrist - Birmingham Early Intervention Services
Biography
Ben is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, and Consultant Psychiatrist in the Birmingham Early Intervention Services. Ben’s primary research interest is improving our understanding of, and ability to intervene in, the physical morbidity of major mental illnesses like schizophrenia and depression.
He has expertise in using cutting edge methods straddling observational and genetic epidemiology, risk prediction and the development of predictive algorithms, data science, and causal inference. Ben is also developing an interest in translating and expanding the observational research findings through applied and mixed methods research.
Ben’s interest in psychiatry began during his medical studies in East London. His experiences on clinical placements in particular widened his eyes to the poor physical health outcomes too often experienced by people with mental illness. After joining the academic clinical training program in Cardiff where he trained in psychiatric genetics, he moved to the University of Warwick as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, training in epidemiology and biostatistics. Then, having been awarded a prestigious NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, Ben moved to University of Cambridge to undertake his PhD. He was subsequently appointed Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry at University of Cambridge and completed his clinical training in Cambridgeshire before moving to University of Birmingham.
Dr Angharad de Cates
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry
School of Psychology
Contact:
Email address: a.n.decates@bham.ac.uk
Month: February 2025
NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Psychiatry - School of Psychology
Biography
Dr de Cates is an NIHR Clinical Lecturer and Psychiatry Registrar currently at the Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Until February 2024, she was a Guarantors of Brain Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her research interests focus on exploring cognition and mood as transdiagnostic and novel psychopharmacological targets in mental illness, including early psychosis. Recent projects include a body of work examining the role of specific serotonin receptor agonists in improving cognition.
Angharad qualified from the University of Oxford, and completed NIHR Academic Foundation and Academic Clinical Fellow posts at the University of Warwick. She then moved to Oxford to complete a Wellcome Trust funded DPhil (working on the first fMRI studies of medications that activate the 5HT4 receptor and how these might be useful for cognition), and subsequently a Guarantors of Brain Clinical Postdoctoral Fellowship.
She has been supervised by Catherine Harmer, Phil Cowen and Susannah Murphy (DoP, Oxford), Thomas Nichols and Anya Topiwala (BDI, Oxford), Matthew Broome and Rachel Upthegrove (Birmingham) and Scott Weich (Sheffield).
She is now completing her psychiatry residency in the West Midlands while continuing her research supported by the NIHR with a Clinical Lectureship.
Dr Siân Lowri Griffiths
Assistant Professor
School of Psychology
Contact:
Email address: s.l.griffiths@bham.ac.uk
Month: February 2025
Assistant Professor - School of Psychology
Biography
Dr Lowri Griffiths (She/her) is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Mental Health and co-lead for the Children and Young People’s Theme of the Mental Health Mission, Midlands Translational Centre. Dr Griffiths has attracted ~£11 million of research funding as PI, Deputy PI and Co-I from a number of external funders including UKRI / ESCR, NIHR PGfAR, NIHR HSDR and EU Horizon. Dr Griffiths has recently established her own research group: CARE –Collaborative Applied Research for Equity in Mental Health.
Dr Griffiths has over 15 years of applied clinical research experience within the area of youth mental health. She has overseen large clinical trials and observational studies in early psychosis, applying multi-modal methods. Dr Griffiths has recently established the CARE research group which includes a dynamic team of interdisciplinary researchers and experts by experience to apply research in a collaborative way to improve mental health care and outcomes for all young people. Dr Griffiths is passionate about understanding and addressing the social determinants of mental illness which contribute to mental health inequities for underserved groups, and is an advocate for co-production and empowering young people with lived experience to drive meaningful change.