May 10, 2020
Isobel Heyman, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCPsych Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London; Honorary Professor at the Institute of Child Health, University College London.
Dr Heyman has worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital part-time
since 1998 and full-time since 2012. Over the same period she has
also worked as a consultant at the Maudsley Hospital, where she
continues to hold an honorary position. She has a particular
commitment to the detection and treatment of
emotional and behavioural problems in children who also have
long-term physical health problems, such as epilepsy.
Dr Heyman received the Royal College of Psychiatrists’
‘Psychiatrist of the Year’ award in 2015.