DrSharon Taylor
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine Centre - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior LecturerFaculty of Medicine Centre - Faculty of Medicine
- 31A0, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing (QEQM), St Mary's Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Overview
Dr Taylor is an enthusiastic therapist and educator and has been employed as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with CNWL mental health NHS since 2005 working across the range of child mental health problems. She provides paediatric Liaison consultation to St Mary’s Hospital, London, working at the interface between paediatrics and child mental health. Prior to becoming a child psychiatrist, Sharon completed MRCP qualification in paediatrics.
Over the years Dr Taylor has also completed training in family therapy at the Tavistock Clinic and post graduate training in education, she has developed special interests in anxiety disorder including obsessive compulsive disorder, somatisation disorders (children expressing their distress through bodily symptoms e.g. recurrent abdominal pain), autistic spectrum disorders, children coping with the distress of physical health problems such as allergies and asthma and difficulties of early childhood.
Dr Taylor is also actively involved in training both medical students and postgraduate training in the specialist field of child psychiatry.
Additionally, Dr Taylor has authored over 30 publications, including 7 books, chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Paediatrics and Child Psychiatry.
From 2015- 2020 Dr Taylor was elected Vice-chair for Paediatric liaison network of RCPsych:(international group supporting NHS liaison child psychiatrists.
Appointments:
2005- 2022 Consultant in Paediatric Liaison in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer Imperial College London.
2008- 2022 Educational Supervisor for Koplowitz fellows (Manage and train Spanish trainee doctors in CAMHS)
2010- 2022 Joint Trainee Programme Director St Mary’s higher trainees in Adolescent and Child Psychiatry & Educational supervisor to higher trainees.
2011- 2022 Educational Supervisor for higher trainees in CAMHS
2013- 2022 Personal tutor for years 3-6 medical students at Imperial College School of Medicine
Honorary senior Lecturer Imperial college school of medicine.
2020- 2022 Academic tutor for Medical students in years 1-3 at Imperial College School of Medicine
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Awards & Prizes
Awarded President’s medal for outstanding contribution to Pastoral Care 2015 at Imperial College London
Awarded Prize for Outstanding Personal Tutoring Imperial College Union awards 2022.
Awarded Imperial College's President award for excellence pastoral care 2015
NHS teaching excellence award: Personal Tutor Award 2014
Elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatry FRCPsych.
Awarded 1st prize for Poster presentation at 18th International conference of ESCAP (out of 120 presentations) on Autoimmune encephalitis mental health management.
Awarded with Dr Nell Freeman ‘Project of the Year’ at Imperial College Union Awards. 2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (ref no: 28240) 2007
Qualifications
2010 Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Systemic Theory–Distinction (Tavistock)
2005 GMC Specialist Registration for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Number: 3664258
2004 CASLAT (Certificate of Advanced Study in Learning and Teaching) – an accredited, modular postgraduate qualification at Imperial College.
2001 Mental Health Act Section 12 approval. Renewal 2014
2000 – MRCPsych now FRCPsych
1996 – MRCP (Lon)
1992 – MBBS
1989 – BSc (Hons) in Psychology – Class 2.1
Dr Taylor is an enthusiastic therapist and educator and has been employed as a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with CNWL mental health NHS since 2005 working across the range of child mental health problems. She provides paediatric Liaison consultation to St Mary’s Hospital, London, working at the interface between paediatrics and child mental health. Prior to becoming a child psychiatrist, Sharon completed MRCP qualification in paediatrics.
Over the years Dr Taylor has also completed training in family therapy at the Tavistock Clinic and post graduate training in education, she has developed special interests in anxiety disorder including obsessive compulsive disorder, somatisation disorders (children expressing their distress through bodily symptoms e.g. recurrent abdominal pain), autistic spectrum disorders, children coping with the distress of physical health problems such as allergies and asthma and difficulties of early childhood.
Dr Taylor is also actively involved in training both medical students and postgraduate training in the specialist field of child psychiatry.
Additionally, Dr Taylor has authored over 30 publications, including 7 books, chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Paediatrics and Child Psychiatry.
From 2015- 2020 Dr Taylor was elected Vice-chair for Paediatric liaison network of RCPsych:(international group supporting NHS liaison child psychiatrists.
Appointments:
2005- 2022 Consultant in Paediatric Liaison in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer Imperial College London.
2008- 2022 Educational Supervisor for Koplowitz fellows (Manage and train Spanish trainee doctors in CAMHS)
2010- 2022 Joint Trainee Programme Director St Mary’s higher trainees in Adolescent and Child Psychiatry & Educational supervisor to higher trainees.
2011- 2022 Educational Supervisor for higher trainees in CAMHS
2013- 2022 Personal tutor for years 3-6 medical students at Imperial College School of Medicine
Honorary senior Lecturer Imperial college school of medicine.
2020- 2022 Academic tutor for Medical students in years 1-3 at Imperial College School of Medicine
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Awards & Prizes
Awarded President’s medal for outstanding contribution to Pastoral Care 2015 at Imperial College London
Awarded Prize for Outstanding Personal Tutoring Imperial College Union awards 2022.
Awarded Imperial College's President award for excellence pastoral care 2015
NHS teaching excellence award: Personal Tutor Award 2014
Elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatry FRCPsych.
Awarded 1st prize for Poster presentation at 18th International conference of ESCAP (out of 120 presentations) on Autoimmune encephalitis mental health management.
Awarded with Dr Nell Freeman ‘Project of the Year’ at Imperial College Union Awards. 2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (ref no: 28240) 2007
Qualifications
2010 Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Systemic Theory–Distinction (Tavistock)
2005 GMC Specialist Registration for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Number: 3664258
2004 CASLAT (Certificate of Advanced Study in Learning and Teaching) – an accredited, modular postgraduate qualification at Imperial College.
2001 Mental Health Act Section 12 approval. Renewal 2014
2000 – MRCPsych now FRCPsych
1996 – MRCP (Lon)
1992 – MBBS
1989 – BSc (Hons) in Psychology – Class 2.1
DEGREES
- MBBSUniversity College London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 1986 - 1 Jul 1992
- BScUniversity College London, London, United Kingdom1 Sep 1988 - 2 Jul 1989
CERTIFICATIONS
- CASLATImperial College London, Education, London, United Kingdom2 Sep 2003 - 1 Jul 2004
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- MRCPRoyal College of Psychiatrists, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 2000 - 1 Jul 2000
- MRCPRoyal College of Physicians, Paediatrics, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 1996 - 1 Jul 1996
- Member of Higher Education AcademyHigher Education Academy, York, United Kingdom1 Jul 2004 - 1 Jul 2004
- Specialist Registration for Child & Adolescent PsychiatryGeneral Medical Council, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 2005 - 1 Jul 2005
- Fellow of the Higher Education AcademyHigher Education Academy, london, United Kingdom2 Jul 2007 - 2 Jul 2007Supervised by taylor S
- Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Systemic TheoryTavistock Institute, London, United Kingdom1 Jul 2009 - 1 Jul 2010
- Elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatry FRCPsychRoyal College of Psychiatry, United Kingdom1 Jul 2015 - 1 Jul 2015
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer