DrSameer Jauhar

Clinical Associate Prof in Affective Disorders and Psychosis

Department of Brain Sciences - Faculty of Medicine

  • Clinical Associate Prof in Affective Disorders and Psychosis
    Department of Brain Sciences - Faculty of Medicine
  • Imperial College London, Department of Brain Sciences, Commonwealth Building, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom

BIO

Dr Jauhar graduated in Medicine from Glasgow University in 2002, having also completed a degree in Public Health and Epidemiology.

He moved to the Institute of Psychiatry in 2012, to work with Oliver Howes and Shitij Kapur on predominantly PET studies of the dopamine system, with the focus on psychosis and treatment response.

His research interests focus on understanding neurobiological causes of psychotic illness, with a focus on the affective psychoses, and treatment of psychotic and affective illnesses.

He has published over 150 peer-reviewed publications, and a number of highly-cited papers relating to these topics, in some (vaguely) high-impact Journals, including The Lancet, Lancet Psychiatry, BMJ, JAMA Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry and Molecular Psychiatry.

He is currently Chair of the BAP Schizophrenia Guidelines Group, and has sat on a NICE Health Technology Appraisal Group and Funding panel for the Wellcome Trust.

He has received travel awards/grants from the European Psychiatric Association, European Congress of Neuropsychopharmacology, British Association fpr Psychopharmacology, and Schizophrenia International Research Society.

He received a Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh JMS Sim Fellowship in 2018, enabling him to build on work examining the presynaptic dopamine system in affective psychoses.

In 2019 he was awarded the Senior Clinical Award from the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and in 2022 the Rafaelson Young Investigator Award from the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology. In 2024 he received the BAP Public Edication Award.

Clinically, he has worked as a Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis since 2012, throughout South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.

He recently moved to Imperial College, and has the current pleasure of doing Honorary Consultant Sessions in the Brent EI Team.

FACULTY

  • Faculty of Medicine

POSITION NAME

  • Clinical Associate Prof in Affective Disorders and