Overview
We are an active and expanding Department involved in teaching, research and clinical service delivery. As a Discipline, Psychiatry is a medical speciality with a strong scientific basis. It participates in a multidisciplinary approach to caring for people with mental illness using biological, psychological and social interventions.
Clinical:
Full-time members of the Department provide clinical services to, and work in partnership with, HSE community mental health services in the South Western region, St. James, AMNCH, St. Patrick's hospitals and the Central Mental Hospital, while part-time members work in a wide variety of HSE community adult and child services, forensic services, learning disability, liaison psychiatry, drug dependency and other related services and sub-specialities.
Teaching:
The Department is involved in teaching throughout the undergraduate medical curriculum from Human Development and Behavioural Sciences, through Neurosciences and Psychology to Clinical Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry. Clinical teaching involves partnership with medical and other professional staff at all our associated teaching hospitals and HSE community services. Our postgraduate programs offer a range of degree courses in Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy in adults and children and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.: The University is associated with The Dublin University Post-Graduate Training Scheme in Psychiatry the largest training scheme in clinical psychiatry in Ireland. It is jointly managed by the Head of Department, and the Clinical Directors of the associated hospitals, AMNCH, SJH, SPH and the Health Service Executive. Trainees rotate between four base hospitals - AMNCH, SPH, SJH and NGH. A full range of sub-speciality training rotations takes place during the 3½ year programme. These rotations include Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Learning Disability, Age-Related, Substance Misuse Rehabilitation, Liaison and Forensic Psychiatry.
Research:
Research interests of the core Department focus on Clinical and Molecular Neuroscience with Internationally recognised research groups in Neuropsychiatric Genetics, Neuroimaging and Biomarkers, Molecular Neuroscience, and the Neurosciences or Aging. We work closely with colleagues at the Trinity College Institute of Molecular Medicine and Institute of Neurosciences and the Department of Genetics, and collaborate widely with Irish and International research groups. Part time members are involved in a wide range of basic science and clinical research activities reflecting the broad scope of Psychiatry as a clinical and scientific Discipline.
Department Staff:
Professor Michael Gill is head of the Department and is based on the St. James's campus. Professor Hampel is based at AMNCH. Professor Declan McLaughlin is based at St. Patrick's hospital. Professor Thomas Frodl has been recently appointed to a Stokes Professorship in Neuroimaging. Personal Chairs and Clinical Professors include Professors Brian Lawlor (SJH and Aging Research), Michael Fitzgerald (Child Psychiatry), Harry Kennedy (Forensic Psychiatry), James Lucey (Clinical Psychiatry and Director, SPH) and Greg Swanwick (AMNCH and Aging Research). Dr. Aiden Corvin is a Senior Lecturer at SJH, Dr. Gary Donohoe is a Lecturer in Psychology, Dr. Derek Morris is a Lecturer in Molecular Psychiatry and Dr. Arun Bodke is a Lecturer in Neuroimaging. In association with the Irish Psychiatric training Committee, we appoint three rotating Clinical Lectureships, and clinical tutors are appointed from the body of postgraduate trainees in psychiatry working within the clinical services. We have research administrative and secretarial support on the TCD SJH and AMNCH sites and at our Departmental Teaching base at St. Patrick's Hospital.