Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children  

Psychological Medicine Service and National Tourette Syndrome Clinic Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Great Ormond Street London WC1N 3JH UK Website Link
Principal investigator Dr. Isobel Heyman, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCPsych Phone: +020 7829 8679 Email: isobel.heyman@gosh.nhs.uk
Clinical staff:Dr. Holan Liang Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist Phone: +020 7829 8679 Email: Ho-Lan.Liang@gosh.nhs.uk

 

Institute Description

Our team is made up of clinicians and researchers and was developed to ensure that the frequently neglected mental health needs of children with complex physical health problems and long-term conditions are detected and treated. We are committed to ensuring best-practice in mental and physical well-being and we recently won the Child and Adolescent Team of the Year (2018) award at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Awards.

Some of the most exciting things our team has done over the last year include:

• a drop-in centre for children and families where parents have the opportunity to discuss concerns they may have about their child’s emotional well-being (called The Lucy Project)
• a multi-centre randomised controlled trial to detect and treat mental health problems in children with epilepsy (Mental Health in Children with Epilepsy MICE)
• collaborating in an online behavioural intervention programme for Tics (ORBIT TRIAL).

Short profile of group

Dr Isobel Heyman is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children part-time since 1998 and full-time since 2012. She is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She has also worked over the same time as a Consultant at the Maudsley Hospital where she continues to hold an honorary position. For more information see UCL website

 

 Dr Holan Liang is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She has previously been Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the South London & Maudsley NHS Trust and Clinical Research Fellow at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Her special interests are neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD, learning difficulty, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Tourette’s Syndrome) and their overlap with genetics and psychiatric co-morbidity.