Margaret Thompson, MBChB, MD, FRCPsy, FRCP (Glas), FRPCH FRSM

Honorary Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, IDIA, School of Psychology, University of Southampton. Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, SCPCT.

Dr Thompson became a Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1984 in the CAMHS in the New Forest. She became a Reader in CAP in 2002 and retired in May 2007 before becoming Honorary Consultant in SCPCT and an Honorary Reader in CAP, as well as Clinical Director of the Institute for Disorders of Impulse and Attention (IDIA) at the University of Southampton.

Dr Thompson's research and clinical interests have always been in the under fives. Her particular research interests are in pre-school ADHD and parenting and has published the results of RCTs in this arena. Along with colleagues published therapeutic manuals for pre-school ADHD (the New Forest Parenting Programme) and ran training programmes for therapists. She has also co-written a textbook on child and adolescent psychiatry for primary care.

Email: M.Thompson@soton.ac.uk

Declaration of interests: Wrote lectures and has had travel and research grant from Eli Lilley, UCB, Janssen Cilag Flynn.

Paula Jenkins, BM, MRCPsych

SpR in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry on the Wessex training program.

Dr Jenkins trained at Southampton Medical School and qualified in 2000. She worked in the local area in a range of psychiatry SHO jobs before joining the SpR program in 2006 and is now in her final year. She is currently working with Brighton University on a research project on Resilience Therapy.

Email: paula.Jenkins@sussexpartnership.nhs.uk

Declaration of interests: None