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Dr Andrew McKechanie
Andrew McKechanie is a clinical research fellow in the Division of Psychiatry.
As an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with NHS Lothian, he works as a learning disability psychiatrist in central Edinburgh.
Background
Dr McKechanie graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh University in 2002 and completed basic Psychiatry training on the North Yorkshire and South East Scotland training schemes. He was then Lecturer in Learning Disabilities in the Division of Psychiatry in Edinburgh prior to his current post.
Research interests
Dr McKechanie's principal goal is to further our understanding of the nature of mental illness in the intellectual disability population, with the ultimate goal of aiming to improve the care and treatment that is available.
His interests span trying to expand both our knowledge of what may contribute to the development of mental illness in this population - for example through genetic studies - but also on more practical knowledge - what interventions can help when people with a learning disability require to access general hospitals?
The work of his current fellowship hopes to bring together the clinical, genetic, imaging and neuropsychological strands of Fragile X Syndrome to further our understanding of the condition. As a member of the Patrick Wild Centre for Research into Autism, Fragile X Syndrome and Intellectual Disabilities, he is also currently involved in a number of clinical trials of novel therapeutics in this population.
Selected publications
- Equality and access to general healthcare for people with learning disabilities: Reality or rhetoric?
- Journal of Research in Nursing (2010) 15 (4): 351-361
- Brown MJ, MacArthur J, McKechanie AG, Hayes M and Fletcher J
- Can epigenetics help in the discovery of therapeutics for psychiatric disorders?
- Expert opinion on Drug Discovery (2009) 4(6): 621-7
- Muir WJ & McKechanie AG
- Empower children and young people with intellectual disabilities: An Expert paper on Priority 7 to accompany the European Declaration on Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Health, Better Lives.
- 1 November 2010
- Anthony, J., Crosby, N., Hall, K., McKechanie, A.G. et al.
- Identifying the Needs of Each Child and Young Person: An Expert paper on Priority 4 to accompany the European Declaration on Children and Young People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Families: Better Health, Better Lives.
- 2 November 2010
- Walsh P, Chiriacescu D, Curfs L, McKechanie AG & Lantman H
- “Learning Disabilities” Chapter in Johnstone, E.C. et al (ed)
- Companion to Psychiatric studies (2010)
- Muir WJ & McKechanie AG
- “Learning Disabilities” Chapter in Semple D and Smyth R (ed)
- Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry (2009) Oxford University Press
- McKechanie AG
This article was published on Oct 5, 2011