Dr Donald MacIntyre (MD FRCPsych FBCS)
Director, NRS Mental Health Network. Honorary Reader & Consultant Psychiatrist.
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Division of Psychiatry
- NHS Lothian
Contact details
- Email: d.macintyre@ed.ac.uk
Background
Donald is a consultant general psychiatrist in NHS Lothian and Associate Medical Director (Mental Health) at NHS 24. He has combined research and clinical practice throughout his career. He was awarded MD in 2013 and promoted to Honorary Reader in 2017. He was a member of cohort 1 on the NHS Digital Academy in 2018 and made a Fellow of the Faculty Of Clinical Informatics in 2019. He was appointed Director of the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Mental Health Network in 2022. He was made a Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2024.
Research summary
Donald is interested in exploring the validity of psychiatric diagnoses using novel methods of phenotyping and using technological innovations, routine measurement and record linkage to improve mental health care and treatment.
Funding Sources
- Chief Scientist Office
- Digital Health Institute
- Scottish Mental Health Research Network
- Scottish Government
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Dissecting the Shared Genetic Architecture of Suicide Attempt, Psychiatric Disorders, and Known Risk Factors
(15 pages)
In:
Biological Psychiatry, vol. 91, pp. 313-327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.029
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Language function following preterm birth: prediction using machine learning
In:
Pediatric Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-021-01779-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The Genetic Architecture of Depression in Individuals of East Asian Ancestry: A Genome-Wide Association Study
In:
JAMA Psychiatry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2021.2099
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology
(19 pages)
In:
Nature Genetics, vol. 53, pp. 817-829
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00857-4
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A loss of mature microglial markers without immune activation in schizophrenia
In:
Glia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/glia.23962
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)