Pamela Taylor
was an undergraduate at Guy’s & King’s College Hospital Medical Schools, London, and completed post graduate training there, at the University of Vermont, USA, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), London, becoming a Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Gaskell Gold medalist. Subsequent posts included Head of Medical Services for the Special Hospitals’ Service Authority 1990-5, Professor of Special Hospital Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry 1996-2004, and membership of the Inner London Probation Board 1992-2002.   Currently Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Cardiff University, Visiting Professor at the IoP, King’s College London and Forensic Psychiatry Advisor to the CMO of the Welsh Assembly Government, she is also a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.  She has been elected to various roles for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has published on psychosis and violence, mental state among prisoners, chairs an offender health research network in Wales and co-chairs an international research group. She edits the journal Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health, andis international editor of Behavioural Sciences & the Law. With John Gunn, she edits the textbook Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues (1Ed 1993; 2Ed 2009); she also edited the books Violence in Society (1993), Couples in Care & Custody (1999) (with Tom Swan), and Personality Disorder & Serious Offending: Hospital Treatment Models (2006) (with Chris Newrith & Clive Meux).
Pamela Taylor's presentation (1.6 Mb)



PROFESSOR JOHN GUNN CBE MD FRCPsych, FMedSci
Prof Gunn is the emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.  His medical training in was Birmingham and his psychiatric training was at the Maudsley in London. He became a Foundation Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1971, and has been active within the Royal College since that time, serving on most of the senior committees of the College and was chairman of the Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry from 2000 – 2004. From 1978 to 2002 he was the Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and he developed the largest postgraduate teaching centre in Britain for forensic psychiatry. From 1993-5 he was Deputy Chief Examiner of the Royal College. He currently serves on the CPD and on the Parliamentary Committees.
 
Prof Gunn has been a medical advisor to two House of Commons committees, to the Department of Health, and to the Home Office, including 9 years on the Home Secretary's Advisory Board for restricted patients. He has undertaken work for the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture. For two years he was a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in England & Wales. (1991-3). He was awarded the Phillipe Pinel Prize in 1992 for services to international forensic psychiatry.
 
Prof Gunn’s research studies have included estimating the prevalence of epilepsy within British prisons, and more later the prevalence of psychiatric disorder within British prisons. The studies refuted the supposed connection between epilepsy and violence, but shown that quite large numbers of mentally disordered people languish in British prisons. He has taken an interest in suicides in prisons, and a special interest in the problems posed by people who get labelled as suffering from 'personality disorder'. As part of his prison research work he studied the effectiveness of treatment within Grendon prison for 'personality disordered' prisoners. Prof Gunn has written a book on men with epilepsy in prison, and another on the use of therapeutic communities in prison. With Professor Pamela Taylor Professor Gunn has co-authored a textbook of forensic psychiatry and he is also one of the three editors of the international journal Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health.  Other research has been with evaluating group treatments and in particular the therapeutic community at Grendon prison.
 
In his clinical work Prof Gunn has at various times treated offender patients, in secure settings, in open hospital settings, and in the community; he has always taken a special  interest in community forensic psychiatry, being involved with drop-in projects and setting up specialised housing for mentally disordered offenders. In the 1970's he developed a pioneer residential service for mentally disordered offenders. He also developed a service for victims who have suffered psychological trauma. Also in the 1970s he was chairman of a project team which set up medium security psychiatry services for the South East Thames Region of the NHS.    
 
Prof Gunn has written books on violence, on men with epilepsy in prison, and another on the use of therapeutic communities in prison. With Professor Pamela Taylor he has co-authored a textbook of forensic psychiatry and he is also one of the four editors of the international journal Criminal Behaviour & Mental Health.  Other research has been evaluated group treatments and in particular the therapeutic community at Grendon prison.
 
Currently Prof Gunn sits on the Parole Board of England & Wales. He is also one of the co- coordinators of a European group of forensic psychiatrists (the Gent Group). He is married to Prof Pamela Taylor, Prof. of Forensic Psychiatry at Cardiff University
John Gunn's presentation (1.9 Mb)





Norbert Nedopil, academic background
Born in 1947
 
Graduated after studying medicine and psychology from the University of Munich in 1974
From 1977 to 1984 residency at the psychiatric hospital of the University of Munich, specializing in psychopharmacology, schizophrenia research and sleep research
 
From 1984 specializing in forensic psychiatry.
From 1989 to 1992 Professor and head of the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Würzburg
Since 1992 head of the Department of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Munich.
 
Special interests in "Quality and improvement of quality of psychiatric assessments", "Differentiation and causes of human aggression", "Treatment of mentally disordered offenders", "Prediction of recidivism and management of mentally ill offenders in the community", "Ethical and legal questions pertaining to psychiatry"
 
Memberships:
Board of Directors of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS)
Chairman of the Committee on Ethical questions of psychopharmacological research of the AGNP (German association of Psychopharmacology),
Chairman of the task force on the subspecialisation in forensic psychiatry of the DGPPN (German Psychiatric Association),
Organizer of the continuous education program in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology of the Interdisciplinary Work Group.
Organizer and chairman of the Munich Forensic Fall Conference, the largest German speaking annual conference for Forensic Psychiatry
 
Author of nine books and more than 200 scientific publications.
 
In 2007 awarded with the Beccharia Medal in Gold by the German, Swiss and Austrian Society of Criminology (NKG) and with the Kraepelin-Alzheimer Medal of the University Hospital of Munich.
Norbert Nedopil's presentation (2.5 Mb)





Lone Frank has a PhD in neurobiology and worked as a research scientist in Denmark and the United States before deciding in 1997 to become a full-time science writer. Today she is a well-known voice in debates about science, technology and society. She is a staff write for the Danish weekly Weekendavisen, and has written for international publications such as Science, Nature Biotechnology and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She is widely invited as a speaker and regularly appears on Danish radio and television. As well as co-producing a series of television programmes on controversial science for the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation, DR, she has written three books, THE NEW LIFE (Gyldendal, 2004), CLONED TIGERS (Gyldendal, 2005) and MINDFIELD (published by Gyldendal in 2007 and Oneworld Publishers in 2009).
 
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