Dr Partha Banerjea: I am a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who has specialised in seeing high impact, high risk adolescents for most of the last 25years at the Maudsley Hospital. During my career in the NHS, I have set up and delivered 7 different services involving children with both complex neurodevelopmental disorders and major mental illnesses, working multi systemically and exploring the intersectionality of these adolescents with culture, race, class, and neurodiversity. The cornerstone of my work is how to make a difference in the life of the family and child, with the judicious use of psychopharmacology working alongside evidence based psychological therapies.
I trained both in New Zealand and London, initially specialising in Neurosurgery before switching to Psychiatry which eventually led to my time at the Maudsley, where I served as Lead Clinician at South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, held academic posts involving both research and teaching of medical post graduate students and senior psychiatrists as well as setting up psychiatric services for the UN in post conflict zones, as well as working with and rehabilitating primates in Southeast Asia.
I have a growing interest, over the last 10years, in the interface between art and science and as a result have presented at festivals, conferences, published in areas of psychiatry, social sciences/cultural theory, journalistic broadsheets, and music. I currently run a bespoke service in London seeing children, adolescents, and young people up to the age of 25.
