Biography

Tom qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham UK. He was appointed to Kings College London as Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 with his clinical base in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His clinical research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services and the promotion of these solutions at a National and International level. These programmes have included residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill people, supported employment programmes, services for first episode psychosis and studies of the computer-based AVATAR programme for the treatment of auditory hallucinations