Kamaldeep Bhui | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor of Psychiatry |
| Awards | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2017) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | United Medical & Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals (UMDS) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford;Queen Mary University of London |
Kamaldeep Bhui is a Kenyan-born British clinical academic psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He is an expert on cultural psychiatry,ethnic disparities in psychiatric disorders, [1] cultural competency and public mental health. His interdisciplinary work includes creative arts,lived experience,digital interventions,air pollution and climate change. He is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford [2] and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London. [3] In 2017,Bhui was named a Commander of Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen's New Years' Honors List in honor of his services to mental health care and research. [4]
Bhui is NIHR Senior Investigator and Director of the World Psychiatric Association Collaborating Centre. [5] He is senior research fellow at Wadham College,Oxford.
Bhui was born in Kenya to a family of Punjabi Sikh background,and educated in the United Kingdom. [6]
Bhui graduated from the United Medical &Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’Hospitals with a medical degree in 1988. He holds postgraduate qualifications in psychiatry,mental health studies,epidemiology,and psychotherapy. He completed clinical training in London,secured a first Consultant appointment in 1999,followed in 2000 and 2003 by Consultant/Senior Lecturer and Consultant/Professorial posts in East London Foundation Trust and Queen Mary University of London. [7] Bhui was subsequently appointed Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology at the Research Centre for Psychiatry at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and the London School of Medicine. [6]
Bhui is co-founder of Careif,an international mental health charity. [8]