Dr Stuart Turner Dr Stuart TurnerDr Stuart Turner MA (Cantab) MD BChir FRCP (Lon) FRCPsych is available for private clinical 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, employment cases (including questions concerning disability), 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. He graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1973 (BA in medical sciences - psychology and pharmacology) leaving with a clinical exhibition. He pursued his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital (winning the psychiatry prize) and in 1976 passed his final medical examinations (MB BChir). He undertook postgraduate training in medical specialties (later obtaining the MRCP qualification in general medicine) and then moved into psychiatry. Initially he worked at the Middlesex Hospital where he developed clinical experience and a special interest in behaviour therapy, working with Dr Edward Chesser and Dr Vic Meyer. He also received a broad base of supervised training in psychological therapies, with individuals, couples and as facilitator of a closed psychotherapy group. He obtained the MRCPsych qualification and moved to Kings College Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry where he undertook full-time research into the biology of schizophrenia leading to the Cambridge University MD degree. He became a senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant in 1987 at the Middlesex Hospital (first consultant Advisory Appointments Committee). In 1993, he moved into a substantive NHS consultant post (honorary senior lecturer) when he became Medical Director of the NHS Trust. He is a registered medical practitioner with a licence to practice and the Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in general adult psychiatry. He is recognised under s12 of the Mental Health Act. He has been elected to Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych). 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 2005, he was asked to advise the London Development Centre in formulating a London-wide response to the July 7th bombings. In 1991, as a direct result of his research into the emotional condition of the British "human shield" civilians returned from Kuwait and Iraq, undertaken with Dr Easton, and with active support from former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath, the UK Department of Health was persuaded to support the development of specialist trauma services. He co-directed, with Dr James Thompson, one of the two nationally funded centres for treating trauma survivors, initially 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) in 2000. He was appointed as Secretary in 2001, as Treasurer in 2002 and as Vice-President in 2005. He served as President from November 2007 to November 2008. Presently, he serves as one of the small team of United Nations representatives, ISTSS having special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the UN (ECOSOC). In 2010, he was awarded the Sarah Haley Memorial Award for Clinical Excellence by ISTSS. In the United Kingdom, he has served as an initial Faculty Member on a course for the Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient for the Royal College of Surgeons (1996 to 1998), as UK Reference Person for OVEPE, an early project investigating training and standards in European trauma treatment centres (1998 to 1999) and as Constitutional Secretary for the British Association of Mental Health and Law (1998 to 2001). 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 an adviser to centres in the UK and overseas. 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 also played a role in defining terms for the International Criminal Court (ICC). In 2006, he was a member of a panel inspecting the Healthcare Services in Yarls Wood IRC on behalf of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and the following year was involved in an inspection of a special unit at HMP Long Lartin. He is former 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 was a Member of the Dart Centre for Europe Advisory Group and also a temporary adviser to the Trauma, PTSD and Dissociative Disorders subworkgroup for the APA revision of the DSM, convening a special one-day session on this topic within the ISTSS Annual Meeting in November 2008, his Presidential conference. He was first 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 in private practice. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London. He is Emeritus Consultant to the Camden and Islington Foundation Trust. He is also current chair of Trustees of the Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law, Associate Editor of the new European Journal of Psychotraumatology and a member of the Advisory Editorial Board for Torture (journal produced by IRCT). Please click here to see a list of publications.