Mental Health

Professor Linda Gask

Clinical Academic Section Lead for Mental Health

Linda is Professor of Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Manchester and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Salford Primary Care Trust. She will also be working closely with Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. Her research, teaching and clinical work has been focused improving the quality of care for people with common mental health problems and communication at the interface between primary and specialist mental health care. She trained in medicine in Edinburgh, and in Psychiatry in the North West of England, where she has worked for most of the last thirty years, and is the author of more than 100 academic papers and several books. She has also been a consultant to the World Health Organization.

The Mental Health Academic Section will build on key assets in Manchester including the NIHR Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) National Coordinating Centre (with London) and the Centre for Suicide Prevention. Areas of expertise include neurodegenerative disease (fronto-temporal lobe dementia), memory clinics, management of psychosis and bipolar disorders, suicide and self harm prevention and liaison psychiatry.

Mental Health Research (864 KB)