Subject
MedicineFellow type
Fellow-CommonerPositions
Fellow Commoner in Medicine; University Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry; National Clinical Advisor on Gambling Harms; Vice-President, Royal Society of Medicine
Biography
National Clinical Advisor on Gambling Harms
Honorary Professor, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College, London
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge
Founder and Director, National Centre for Behavioural Addiction
After her medical degree at Pavia University, Henrietta moved to the UK permanently to study psychiatry and qualifying with MRCPsych I and II as well as a CCST in Addictions and an Doctorate in Medicine in the field of Neuroscience form Imperial College.
Having started as an SHO at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on the Charing Cross Psychiatry Rotation, she went on to the Higher Training as Specialist Registrar on the St Mary’s and Charing Cross Psychiatry Rotation.
Before studying Medicine, Henrietta graduated in Social Psychology obtaining her BA Hons at the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1985. (Having turned down a place to study Psychology at St Andrew’s University in 1982 that same year she chose the University of Kent for its social science approach which she preferred.)
The degree in psychology inspired her to study Medicine realising psychology was not evidence based enough for her own approach to studying the mind.
Her subsequent acceptance on the Charing Cross Senior House Officer Psychiatry rotation following her medical degree was very much due to the three years of her Psychology degree as arriving as a mature student proved of interest to the interview panel.