Meet The Team
Dr Stuart Watson
Chief Investigator
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at Newcastle University and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the Northern Centre For Mood Disorders within Newcastle University’s Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Dr Niraj Ahuja
Co-chief Investigator
Consultant Psychiatrist for the Regional Affective Disorders Service at the Wolfson Research Centre
Ms Lindsey Dixon
Sponsor Representative
R&D Manager and Regulatory Compliance Lead for Cumbria, Northumberland, & Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Collaborators
Professor John Geddes
Director of the Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical Research Centre
Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams
Professor of Affective Disorders at the Northern Centre For Mood Disorders at Newcastle' University’s Translational and Clinical Research Institute
Professor Richard Morriss
Professor of Psychiatry and Community Health Science University of Nottingham Medical School
Statistics
Professor Dawn Teare
Senior Trial Statistician
Professor of Biostatistics at Newcastle University and Deputy Director of Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Mr Mike Cole
Trial Statistician
Statistician at Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Sarah Al-Ashmori
Trial Statistician
Statistician at Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Health Economists
Professor Judit Simon
Senior Health Economist
Professor of Health Economics and Head of the Department of Health Economics at the Medical University of Vienna
Mr Dennis Wienand
Health Economist
Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Health Economics at the Medical University of Vienna
Patient & Public Representatives
Dr Thomas Kabir
Patient & Public Involvement Co-Applicant
Mr John Gibson
Senior Service User Researcher, The McPin Foundation
Trial Oversight
Professor Allan Young
Data Monitoring Committee Chair
Chair of Mood Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London
Professor Anthony Cleare
Trial Steering Committee Chair
Professor of Psychopharmacology & Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at Kings College London
Qualitative Study
Professor Carolyn Chew Graham (OBE)
Lead Researcher
Professor of General Practice Research, Keele University
Isobel Hoppe
Researcher
School of Medicine, Keele University
Trial Management
by Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
Dr Faye Wolstenhulme
Senior Trial Manager
Ms Chrissie Butcher
Senior Trial Manager
Mr Christopher Weetman
Database Manager
Dr Emma Clark
Trial Manager
Ms Ana Alvarez-Franco
Trial Manager
Ms Laura Brady
Clinical Trials Administrator
