Contact details

Dr. Michael Moutoussis
(+0044) (0) 7963 392 086
m.moutoussis@ucl.ac.uk

Professional Experience

Apr 2012 - present:
Clinical Lecturer in Neuroscience, UCL.
• Computational modelling of behaviour
• Supervisory role within 'Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network' to more junior colleagues
• Functional MRI projects
• Leading input in fMRI projects with respect to clinical - psychiatric matters.
• Initiation and participation in many collaborative projects
• Participation in collaborative projects involving different imaging modalities, esp. structural and resting-state MRI.
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012:
Research fellow, UCL (to prof. R. Dolan).
• Design of 'Cognitive Battery' for large UCL-Cambridge 'Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network' project.
• Programming of 'Cognitive Battery', including its data management, and training of staff in its use.
• Collaborative setting up of project - extensive management work.

Clinical Employment

July 2012 - present
Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Neuropsychiatry dept., UCLH.
• Carrying out highly specialist Cognitive-Behavioural (CBT) & rehabilitation work.
• Designed 'CBT-Psychoeducation' group treatment for Functional Neurological Symptoms.
• Ran the group service above and trained many cotherapists.
• Designed and implemented 'web-based Guided Self Help' for functional neurological symptoms, supervised senior co-therapists.
• Consultant to complex cases & Personality disorder.
• Active in improving Neuropsychiatry service.
• Sought after for staff support groups / services.
Aug 2009 - Sep 2010:
Locum Consultant Psychiatrist in MBT (Mentalization-Based Therapy) service, East London Foundation NHS Trust.
• Liaison - Consultation lead regarding Personality Disorder to general adult psychiatric and primary care clinicians.
• Running MBT groups.
• Extensive clinical supervision work.
• Administrative & managerial work as consultant psychiatrist.
Jan 2005 - Jul 2009:
Specialist Registrar in Medical Psychotherapy, South-West London & St. George's NHS Trust
• Over 1000 hours individual psychodynamic & group therapy.
• CBT clinical training & patient treatment.
• General Adult Psychiatry (CMHT) work.
Jul 2003 - Jan 2005 (init. Mar 2000 to Jul 2000):
Associate specialist (init. Staff Grade) in Adult Psychiatry, South Islington Crisis Resolution Team, Camden & Islington NHS Trust.
• Delivered assessment and treatment of serious mental illness incl. Mental Health Act (MHA) assessments. under Section 12 of the MHA.
Sep 2001 - Nov 2002:
Staff-grade work in Military Psychiatry, Hellenic Navy, Greece
Dec 2000 - Jun 2001:
Home treatment therapist for severe mental illness to prof. P. Sakellaropoulos, Kallithea, Athens, Greece.
Feb 2000 - Mar 2000:
Locum Staff Grade, Psychiatry of the Elderly, Queen Elizabeth II hospital, Hertfordshire.
Jan 1996 - Jan 2000:
Senior House Officer (Core psychiatric trainee), North London training scheme.
Aug 1993 - Aug 1995:
Surgical and Medical House officer and Medical Senior House Officer, West Middlesex, Chelsea & Westminster and Bromley Hospitals NHS Trusts.

Teaching and supervision

I love teaching and supervision researchers and clinicians. I have -
• Formal training, including student feedback and senior supervision of teaching, during higher medical training.
• Mentorship by the Head of the Institute of Neurology Education Unit in supervising post-graduate students.
Academic (selected):
• Co-supervised two successful '3-month rotation PhD' projects, and am currently the front-line co-supervisor for one 3-year PhD studentship.
• Regular teaching advanced computational modelling and statistics in 'London Computational Psychiatry Course'.
• Regular supervising expert for 'model selection' module of Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging course for PhD students and junior post-docs.
• Taught, supervised and provided pastoral input many intercalated BSc and neuroscience MSc students at UCL, 2011-present.
• Regular marker for MSc projects.
Medical (selected):
• Successfully supervised numerous junior doctors and junior and senior non-medical therapists and co-therapists.
• Participated in formal lecturing and tutorial of medical students and psychiatric trainees 2005-2010,
• Taught, and continue to teach, on personality disorder and relationship-related problems and treatments directly relevant to the current Senior Research Fellow application.

Organizational and Administrative

• Closely supporting management of 'Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network'
• Extensive experience of participation in administration and management of clinical departments.

Qualifications

Academic

• Ph.D. inPsychology: Defensive avoidance in paranoid delusions : experimental and computational approaches
  Awarded: 2011 University of Manchester
  This was work in close collaboration with prof. Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL. It made an important contribution to computational psychiatry. Entitled 'Defensive avoidance in paranoid delusions: Experimental and Computational approaches', it is of great relevance to the current application.
• Advanced Diploma in Family-Focused Interventions
  Awarded: 2005: Middlesex University
• Master of Science in Psychiatric Theory and Research Methods: "Simulating deficits in the executive control of attention in Alzheimer's disease"
  Awarded: 1999 Royal Free & University College London Medical School
• Master of Science in Physiology
  Awarded: 1990 University College London
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with Distinction in Medicine and in Pathology.
  Awarded: 1993 Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School.
• B.Sc. Hons (Lond), ARCS, Physics
  Awarded: First Class, 1987 Imperial College of Science and Technology ( now and Medicine )

Professional

• On Specialist Register of the General Medical Council as a Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy since 2009
• Successfully revalidated to practice Medicine by the GMC, 2014
• Full member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since 2011
• Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists since 1999

Prizes, Awards and Funding

• 2017: UCLH Biomedical Research Council (BRC), £67,311 over 5 years, Project number 540343, award number 17475. Role: 'Mental Health Theme Lead and Link to Computational Psychiatry'.
• 2012 - 2017: Award by BRC, payment corresponding to 1 Consultant Psychiatrist programmed activity (1 PA) per week (approx. £10,000 per year).
• 1993: Mental Health Foundation, award of £300 to support student elective 'analysis of rodent epicortical EEG', Walter J. Freeman lab, UC Berkeley, USA.
• Medical degree: Distinction in Medicine and Pathology
• 1988-1993, medical school prizes: Burns Prize in Physiology (shared); Prize in Psychology; Prize in Sociology ; Rudolph Kohnstam Prize in Medicine; Cash prize for the highest overall marks for Psychiatry student group; Prize in Immunology; The John Adamson Prize in Paediatrics; The H W C Vines Prize in Pathology'

Languages

• Greek
  Fluent National
• French
  Awarded:
  • O level 'A'
  • Certificat de Langue Francaise ('81, Institut Francais d'Athenes; 'Tres Bien')
  • Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise (1er degree, option generale; Univ. de Paris Sorbonne; 'Bien')
• English
  Awarded:
  • O level 'B'
  • First Certificate in English ('81, Univ. of Cambridge; 'A')

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