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Professor T Kendrick

Professor Kendrick qualified in medicine at St George's, London, in 1981. Following five years as a full-time GP, he was Mental Health Foundation research training fellow at St George's from 1990 to 1994, completing his MD on the care of the long-term mentally ill in general practice. He then became senior lecturer and then reader in general practice and primary care at St George's.

In 1998 he was appointed as Professor and head of the department of Primary Medical Care at the University of Southampton School of Medicine. His research addresses the management of common and costly mental health problems in primary care, through multi-practice randomised controlled trials of new treatments and service developments, as well as observational and qualitative studies. He has published extensively, particularly on the primary care of depression, schizophrenia, and eating disorders. His work has been influential in the development of good practice guidelines and the new quality indicators in the UK general practice contract for the management of long-term mental illness and depression. In 2001 he was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in recognition of his mental health research. He continues to practise part-time as a GP.

He is Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners' Scientific Foundation Board, Chair of the SAPC Heads of Departments' working group on academic careers, and a member of the Department of Health panel for doctoral level research training fellowships. His international work includes active membership of the North American Primary Care Research Group and he is a visiting professor at the universities of Auckland and Melbourne.