Dr Ovais Badat is a Consultant Psychiatrist for the Specialised Adult ADHD Clinic in Bristol. He is a General Adult Psychiatrist too, and his research interests include healthcare leadership and the role of the voluntary sector. He facilitates business skills learning for doctors and works for the BBC as a member of the Grants Committee for Children in Need.

Email: ovais.badat@awp.nhs.uk

Saliha Nazir is a Specialty Doctor in Forensic Learning Disability. She is a member of the Spirituality Special Interest Group and Management Special Interest Group in the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has been working with the mental health teams in India (Kashmir) to raise awareness and fight stigma related to mental illness. Her articles have been published in British Medical Journal. Current research projects include: Study of Spirituality in a Forensic Learning Disability Population.

Kamran Ahmed is an ST5 trainee in General Adult Psychiatry on the South London & Maudsley psychiatric training scheme. He was shortlisted for the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Core Trainee of the Year Award 2009. His research interests include cultural psychiatry, public education, medical education and depression in chronic illness.

Email: kamran.ahmed@slam.nhs.uk

Margaret Murphy is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist based in Cambridge.

Raj Persaud is a Consultant Psychiatrist for Surrey and Borders Trust and Gresham Professor for Public Understanding of Psychiatry.