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
Henrietta is a Consultant Psychiatrist specialised in Addiction Psychiatry. As well as pursuing a clinical career in Medicine and Psychiatry she has led a parallel academic career obtaining her Medical Doctorate (MD Res) in the field of Neuroscience from Imperial College researching the role of Executive Function as a predictor of outcome in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse.
She was appointed NHS England’s first ever National Clinical Advisor on Gambling Harms in September 2022 and is a regular advisor to the UK government on matters relating to gambling disorder, gaming disorder and mental health.
She has been employed by the same NHS Trust (CNWL NHS Trust) for the past thirty years and is the Founder and Director of two national clinics which she leads clinically in parallel with her research and advisory roles.
In 2008 she was the Founder of the first ever NHS clinic to treat gambling disorder. There are now fifteen clinics nationally developed from her original gambling one.
She is the Immediate Past Vice-President of the Royal Society of Medicine having been both Trustee and President of Psychiatry at the RSM before her role of VP.
She is a Past President of the Medical Women’s Federation.
She leads on Behavioural Addictions in her role as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University in the Department of Psychiatry. She has an extensive publication list of both peer reviewed papers and of textbooks.
She is Honorary Professor at UCL in the Faculty of Brain Science.
In 2019 Henrietta was appointed OBE for services to Addiction Treatment and to Research.
In 2020 she received the Psychiatrist of the Year 2020 Award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
In 2023 she became Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; this is the highest honour the College can award to individuals in society who have made an impact on mental health nationally.
In November 2023 she was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London and assigned to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In this role she supports the Lord Lieutenant in upholding the work and values of the Royal Family.