Dr Nicole Needham (BMBS, BSc, MRCPsych, DFSRH)
Clinical Research Fellow
Contact details
- Email: nneedham@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Kennedy Tower
Royal Edinburgh Hospital - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH10 5HF
Background
I completed a BMBS at Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry in 2015, with an intercalated BSc in Biosciences. Since then I have completed core training in Psychiatry, achieving membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the first year of higher training in Psychiatry. I am currently out of programme for 4 years, employed as a Clinical Research Fellow and planning to complete a PhD. I am a diplomate of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Qualifications
2021 MRCPsych, Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK
2018 DFSRH, Diplomate of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health
2015 BMBS, Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
2014 BSc Biosciences, University of Exeter
Research summary
I have an interest in chronopsychiatry and metabolic psychiatry, so far in relation to bipolar disorder. I regularly attend weekly the Chronopsychiatry Research Group meetings run by Professor Daniel Smith. I also have an interest in the sexual and reproductive health of people with mental illness, and how this could be improved, in respect to cervical/STI screening.