About the authors

Siobhán MacHale MB BCh MPhil FRCPI FRCPsych

Siobhan MacHale

   

Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin 9, Rep of Ireland

 

Email: siobhanmachale@beaumont.ie

 

Declaration of interest: One-off fees for 1) speaker at Wyeth-funded meeting (non drug-related topic; 2) pre-launch consultancy on escitalopram for Lundbeck.

 

Siobhán MacHale trained in general medicine in Ireland prior to pursuing a psychiatric career in Edinburgh. She had been a consultant liaison psychiatrist in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh for seven years until returning to work in Ireland in 2006.

Roger Smyth MB ChB MPhil MRCPsych

Roger Smyth

   

Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK

 

Email: roger.smyth@luht.scot.nhs.uk

 

Declaration of interest: none

 

Roger Smyth was recently appointed as consultant psychiatrist at the Department of Psychological Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He is a native of Belfast, whose medical and psychiatric training were in South East Scotland. He is a co-author of the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry.

 

 


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