Dr Stuart Turner is current President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), the leading society in this field.

He is available for private consultation in his rooms in Devonshire Street. In the Trauma Clinic, he works with two clinical psychologists who can offer individual psychological treatment. He has a large medico-legal practice acting as expert witness, for example in compensation claims, clinical negligence cases and where assessment of one or both parents is relevant to the decision of the Family Court. He is instructed by claimant and defendant and has training as a Single Joint Expert.

In the mid 1980s, he was a volunteer and then a Trustee (1988 to 1991) of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. One evening in 1987, whilst seeing patients in the Medical Foundation, he became aware of the emergency services' sirens on the Euston Road, and he learned of the fire at Kings Cross Station. He played a lead role in establishing the NHS response to this disaster and to other similar incidents across the United Kingdom.

In 1991, as a direct result of his research, undertaken with Dr Easton, into the emotional condition of the British "human shield" civilians returned from Kuwait and Iraq, the UK Department of Health established two nationally funded centres for treating trauma survivors, one of which he co-directed with James Thompson at the Middlesex Hospital and later in Charlotte Street (1987 to 2003). He has particular experience in working with people with particularly complex problems. As well as establishing services for survivors of torture, he has been involved in establishing a DBT service for people with borderline disorders.

He is one of the four clinicians who established the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS), having been Chair of the European Trauma Foundation from 1991 to 1993, the precursor organisation. In 1995, he became second President of ESTSS. In 1996, he established the UK Trauma Group, a managed clinical network of practitioners and researchers in the UK; he chaired this for 8 years. He served briefly as a civilian consultant adviser in trauma to the UK Director of Defence Psychiatry (1999 to 2003). He was elected to the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) (ISTSS) in 2000. He was appointed as Secretary in 2001, as Treasurer in 2002 and as Vice-President in 2005. He has been elected as President for 2008.

In the United Kingdom, he has also served as UK Reference Person for OVEPE, a project investigating training and standards in European trauma treatment centres (1998 to 1999), as Constitutional Secretary for the British Association of Mental Health and Law (1998 to 2001), and as initial Faculty Member on a course for the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient for the Royal College of Surgeons (1996 to 1998). Overseas, he has been involved in training and other projects in Gaza, Tbilisi (Georgia), Sri Lanka and Namibia. He has chaired an international project group for the ISTSS in collaboration with the UN on organised state violence (1999 to 2003). He has been a member of an International Advisory Board of the Australian National Centre for War-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a Board Member of the South African Institute for Traumatic Stress.

He is an established researcher in the field of PTSD and is committed to the application of best available scientific evidence in the treatment of people with traumatic stress reactions of all types. He was a member of the Guideline Development Group for the PTSD guidelines published in 2005 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

He is a former Trustee of Redress, an organisition working for reparation for survivors of torture. Redress was one of the NGOs involved in the Pinochet extradition trial representing the victims of torture in Chile. It played an important role in defining terms for the International Criminal Court (ICC). In 2006, he was a member of an inspection panel of the Healthcare Services in Yarls Wood IRC on behalf of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.

He has been Medical Director, Camden and Islington Community Trust (1993 to 1998) and served as Vice-Dean in the Royal Free and University College Medical School (1996 to 1998). He then became Director of Research and Development, North Central London Community Research Consortium (now NoCLoR) (1998 to 2002). He was Chair of the Psychology Commisioning Group and (subsequently) of the Mental Health Steering Group, North London Workforce Development Confederation (1997 to 2003).

Currently, he is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Capio Nightingale Hospital. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. He is Emeritus Consultant to the Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care NHS Trust.

He is Chair of Trustees of the Refugee Therapy Centre, a London-based service specialising in offering same language counselling for young refugees and asylum seekers. He is also chair of Trustees of the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law. He is a Member of the Dart Centre for Europe Advisory Group - from 2005 and a member of the Advisory Editorial Boards for Torture (journal produced by IRCT).

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