Our Study 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.

  • Lyndsey Dixon

    SPONSOR REPRESENTATIVE

    R&D Manager and Regulatory Compliance Lead for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust

  • Professor David Kessler

    CO-APPLICANT

  • Professor Glyn Lewis

    CO-APPLICANT

Collaborators

  • 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

  • Professor John Geddes

    Director of the Oxford Health NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

Principal Investigators

  • Dr Jonathan Evans

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-APPLICANT

    Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust

  • Professor Steven Marwaha

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

  • Dr Joseph Hayes

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust

  • Dr Richard Laugharne

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  • Dr Niraj Ahuja

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Trust

  • Dr Neil Nixon

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-APPLICANT

    Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Professor Andrea Cipriani

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND CO-APPLICANT

    Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Professor Shanaya Rathod

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

  • Dr Sikander Gill

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Statistics

  • Professor Dawn Teare

    SENIOR TRIAL STATISTICIAN

    Professor of Biostatistics at Newcastle University and Deputy Director of Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit

  • Mike Cole

    TRIAL STATISTICIAN

    Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit

  • Sarah Al-Ashmori

    TRIAL STATISTICIAN

    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

  • 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

  • John Gibson

    SENIOR SERVICE USER RESEARCHER, THE MCPIN FOUNDATION

Trial Oversight

  • Professor Anthony Cleare

    TRIAL STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Professor of Psychopharmacology & Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London

  • Professor Allan Young

    DATA MONITORING COMMITTEE CHAIR

    Chair of Mood Disorders in the Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry at King’s 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

Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit

  • Dr Faye Wolstenhulme

    SENIOR TRIAL MANAGER

  • Christopher Weetman

    DATABASE MANAGER

  • Dr Emma Clark

    TRIAL MANAGER