Holder of the Health Foundation Chair in Learning Disabilities, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18b Trumpington Road, Cambridge.

E-mail: ajh1008@cam.ac.uk.

Professor Tony Holland qualified in medicine from University College and University College Hospital, London, and after some years in general medicine trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London, eventually specialising in the field of learning disabilities.

He is the first holder of the Chair in Learning Disabilities awarded to the University of Cambridge by the Health Foundation in 2002. He is part of an interdisciplinary learning disability research group (http://www.ldrg.org.uk/) of psychiatrists, psychologists and social scientists.

He was the Royal College lead on the MCA and was one of two advisors to the Scrutiny Committee of the Joint Houses of Parliament that examined the then Mental Incapacity Bill.