Derek Tracy
@derektracy.bsky.social
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Chief Medical Officer of South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Adjunct Professor at the IoPPN, & Honorary Prof at Brunel Med School. Editorial Board at the BJPsych. https://slam.nhs.uk/trust-board/?consultant=737

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Our textbook 'A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Coroner's Court & Inquests' is out now from CUP/RCPsych. 20% off to College members: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Our open-access paper on #LUCI, our new NLP that sits over our EPR allowing real-time whole population data extraction from single clincian to team to service. Enormous care & research potential: informatics.bmj.com/content/32/1/e… collaborators: @kingsioppn.bsky.social @maudsleycharity.bsky.social

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My thoughts on the past quarter century and next 25 years for mental health services: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam."

This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s.

Many of the cities we admire made better choices regarding cars in the past. and are still making better choices today.

Better choices instead of excuses.
An Amsterdam street packed with colourful cars in gridlock in the 1970s.

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Still time to book on our @rcpsych.bsky.social conference 'A new era in leadership, with great speakers including @suhana.bsky.social. Details here: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/events/confe...
A New Era of Leadership
Detail page.
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This is a new image from #JWST.

The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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It's getting closer! Our Royal Society of Medicine conference on why evolution matters to psychiatrists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. Details: www.rsm.ac.uk/events/psych...

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The IoPPN Research Festival is back! Join us on 14 May for a afternoon session to learn the latest innovative research from our staff, from ethical #ai in healthcare to reproducing psychedelic effects with a placebo.

#NeuroSky #MedSky #AcademicSky

Register now:
IoPPN Research Festival 2025 - Bridging disciplines, brain to behaviour
An annual showcase of exciting and innovative research celebrating academic success across the IoPPN.
www.kcl.ac.uk

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This Thursday, online and in person at the Medicolegal Society London, Dr Gabrielle Pendlebury gives a clinicans' guide to the Coroner's court: www.medico-legalsociety.org.uk
The Medico-Legal Society
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Wonderful #SLAM consultant inpatient away-day. Thankful to have such thoughtful, patient-centred colleagues. Lots of ideas for change. Thanks to pharmacy, liaison, & community forensic leaders for joining, & our AMDs & QI team for planning. #GratefulCMO

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A visit to our Croydon North & Croydon South CMHTs at Jeanette Wallace House this morning, and how lovely to meet a team member I worked with as a higher trainee 20 (🙈) years ago.

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Thank you to our Bethlem CAMHS inpatient teams for showing me around yesterday. Really helpful to hear from patients & staff on what's working well & where we need to improve. Inspiring seeing the co-located Ofsted outstanding Maudsley & Bethlem school.

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Always sunny in Lambeth... thank you to the patients & staff on our Lambeth Early Onset ward for showing me around, telling me what's going well, and where we need to do better. Compassion in our care emphasised by all.

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A privilege to be at the RCPsych yesterday to celebrate the life & work of Dr Aggrey Burke, & hear from the outstanding three medical students awarded the inaugural Fellowship named after him. The first Black Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK, his legacy in deep & enduring.

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Thank you to Professor Emmanuel Peters & her PICuP team for showing me around this afternoon. The Psychological Interventions Clinic for outpatients with Psychosis has set an international standard for developing & delivering their evidence-based care models & training.

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Our chapter on inpatient treatment is now out in the new edition of the Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health. Thanks to the chapters first author, & my old mentor Dr Frank Holloway for leading this throughout 🙏
academic.oup.com/book/59676

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Thank you to our SLAM adult eating disorders' team for meeting & taking me through our care models. World leading research, one of the greatest concentrations of expertise in the world, but always person-centred in approach. Grateful to work with such wonderful clinicians.

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A belated thanks to our Lambeth drug & alcohol team for showing me around on Friday. Supporting individuals with opioid, non-opioid & alcohol, & criminal/justice problems, the team will take walk-in self-referrals, & there's no waiting list. Do drop in if we can help.

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How does #depression alter the brain?

New research has that, when given external stimuli, depressed brains process information about how others are feeling in a way that is different to those without depression.

Click the link to learn more 👇

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New MRI study reveals altered brain activity in depressed adolescents while watching 'Despicable Me'
The brains of adolescents with depression process information about how others are feeling in a way that is different to those without depression.
www.kcl.ac.uk

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Best views from the SLAM liaison team base at St Thomas's Hospital. Thank you to our CAMHS, working age adults, older adults, & neuropsychiatry teams for showing me around, & to GSTT colleagues for discussing challenges from the acute perspective.

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Visited our #SLAM national Self-Harm Out-Patient Sevice (SHOPS) yesterday. A unique evidence-based model providing 2 years intensive longer-term psychotherapy for adults experiencing complex & enduring problems relating to self-harm or other forms of self-destructiveness.

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Really moved by a visit on Friday to our SLAM START team for individuals who are homeless. An incredibly passionate & dedicated team doing the right thing day in & out with some of the most vulnerable people. Thank you Dr Jenny Drife & team ❤️.

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Thank you & congrats to Rosa Parks Ward, Lambeth Hospital, South London & Maudsley, for the wonderful patient feedback you have received. Lovely to spend time with patients & staff at the hospital, also including Eden & Nelson wards.

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The Kings Maudsley Partnership are seeking a Associate Director of Philanthropy to lead the fundraising team & secure significant long-term investment for children and adolescent mental health research & treatment. @maudsleynhs.bsky.social

#AcademicSky

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Associate Director of Philanthropy - King’s Maudsley Partnership
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Well that was a fun day #Running #RCPsychNIRunning #RCPsychRunning #StormontHangs @rcpsych.bsky.social @moneillfm.bsky.social @little-pengelly.bsky.social
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Few highlights from @rcpsych.bsky.social NI residential this week, time together being educated, entertained & exercised! Launched our strategy #TimeToBridgeTheGaps addressing the workforce crisis. Thrilled to be joined by @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @derektracy.bsky.social @drladesmith.bsky.social

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Grateful for #creation #running #headspace & to be welcome lots of friends from @rcpsych.bsky.social to a beautiful corner of Norn Iron @derektracy.bsky.social @drladesmith.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social
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Encouraging diversity among scientists is ethically right and also leads to better science.

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Our new open-access paper on the proposed syndemic between mental & oral/dental health, & socioeconomic disadvantage. Thanks to Dr Easter Joury for leading.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper
www.frontiersin.org